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shall be nailed, which shall be done in a suitable manner, when in their 

 judgment it may be necessary. 



Seizure of uninspected fish. Appropriation of proceeds. Ibid., section 12. 



12. If any pickled fish which have been repacked, and not inspected 

 or reinspected and branded according to the provisions of this act, 

 shall be put on board of any boat or vessel, or into any carriage of con- 

 veyance, with intent that the same shall be sold within or exported from 

 this State, the inspector, or any deputy, may seize and libel the same; 

 and if upon trial it shall appear that such seizure was lawful, the fish 

 so seized shall be decreed to be forfeited, and shall be sold and disposed 

 of at public sale to the highest bidder; and the net proceeds, after pay- 

 ing the necessary expenses, shall be paid as follows: One-half to the 

 overseers or guardians of the poor in the county where seized, and the 

 other one-half to the inspector, or his deputy, who shall have caused the 

 same to have beeu seized. 



Penalty for illegal selling or branding. Ibid., section 13. 



13. If any person or persons shall sell within this State, or shall ex- 

 port therefrom, any pickled fish which have been packed or repacked 

 therein, and not duly inspected according to the provisions of this act, 

 shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for every hundred pounds of such 

 fish thus sold or exported, to be recovered in any court of this State 

 having competent jurisdiction. Any person using a brand for the pur- 

 pose of branding casks of fish in imitation of those used by the in- 

 spector or his deputies, or in imitation of those used by the inspect- 

 ors or their deputies in other States or foreign countries, or who shall 

 counterfeit, forge, or fraudulently impress, or make the brand-mark, or 

 any number or other mark of any such inspection, upon any cask of 

 fish subject to inspection, or shall fraudulently alter, deface, conceal 

 or erase any inspection mark duly made, shall, for every such offence, 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punishable by a fine not 

 exceeding one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court having 

 jurisdiction of the offence. 



Repealing clause. Ibid., section 14. 



14. All the acts heretofore in force, regulating the inspection of salted 

 or pickled fish, which are inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are 

 hereby, repealed. — (Approved, March 27, 1860.) 



Name of packer to be branded* Act of April 15, 1835, section 70. 

 Sec. 70. Every brand and half-barrel of salted fish, liable to inspec- 



* This section and several of the following ones are only partially repealed by the 

 act of March 27, I860, from which the preceding sections are quoted. 



