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and July 15 inclufive, and no longer; under the 

 penalty of the faid herrings, or their value, and a 

 fine of 600 guilders, and the matter rendered in- 

 capable of ever a6ting in that capacity for the 

 future. 



The mailers of yawgers fhall make oath, that they 

 will not take on board herrings, from any others 

 but fu'ojech of Holhnd, and Weft Friefland, ob- 

 ferving to get a certificate from the mafter figned 

 by himfelf and two or three failors, with the fhip's 

 name and port fhe failed from, the quantity deli- 

 vered, and that they were taken after June 24, 

 faked and laid in barrels in his fhip, on penalty of 

 the herrings, or value of them; nor fhall any mafter 

 receive them on board yawgers after the I5th of 

 July on penalty as above. 



The herring mafters fhall not mix different forts 

 together, or fort them as the firft fort, which con- 

 tain full, middle, and fm all. But 'the firft or full 

 herrings fhall be forted with the firft, the fecond 

 or middle herrings with the fecond, and the third 

 or fmail herrings with the third ; and in cafe of 

 an extraordinary capture, the time not permitting 

 to fort them properly, the mafters, at their coming 

 on fhore, fhall be obliged to report them as un- 

 forced herrings to his owners. 

 . The firft taken herrings are not to be fold, unlefs 

 they have been ten days in pickle, and not then, 

 till marked by the infpe6tors between the neck and 

 belly hoop, on penalty of 300 guilders; and, in cafe 

 of non-payment, to be confined to bread and wa- 

 ter for a month ; and all herrings brought into the 

 faid provinces, without fuch mark, to be publicly 

 thrown into the fea. 



. That no inhabitants of Holland or Weft Friefland 



fliall be engaged with others living out of the faid 



provinces, in buffes or yawgers, under the penalty 



of ihip and cargo, and 600 guilders to be reco- 



R 2 vered, 



