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but each fhall be filled up with thofe of a like 

 kind, and taken at the fame time and branded 

 with theirs and the city's mark. Each cure-maf- 

 ter may make the matter of the bufs open his bar- 

 rels twice in his view, to have two infpecYions, and 

 at each time to pay half a farthing, the one to be 

 paid by the buyer, and the other by the feller. 



15. Herrings taken after July 26, and faked with 

 fine fait, may be exported as wrack weftward - 3 the 

 barrel to be bound with fixteen hoops, having 

 the date of the year on the belly, and mark of 

 thepurchafer thereon. 



1 6. Herrings taken after Auguft 24, and Bartholo- 

 mew tide, may be falted with fine fait, boiled with 

 fea water, according to agreement with the city 

 of Cologn. 



17. There fhall not be fent abroad to the weftward, 

 or France, Flanders, and Brabant, any herrings 

 but thofe taken and packed after Bartholomew tide, 

 and marked with the grand Rouen brand: Nor fhall 

 any be fent to Hamburgh, Bremen, Cologn, or other 

 ports, that may be cured with coarfe fait, whether 

 they be wrack, or refufal fifh, on penalty of 6 

 guilders each barrel, and naval correction. 



1 8. Herrings once exported, fhall not be brought 

 back, or cured anew, on pain of forfeiture of 

 the 



To the above regulations of the ftatesfince 1749, 

 we fhall add fpndry laws of the laft century, which, 

 though in fome parts ambiguous, may be ufeful. 



Inftruftions by the Magiftrates of Rotterdam, to be Q&-I 

 Jerved by the Labourers employed in lifting Herrings 

 out of the Barrels, and bringing them to the- pack- 

 ing 'Tubs (called by them Inwerpers}. 



i. No man fhall be admitted to be an inwerper 

 except fuch as fhall take an oath to obferve the fol- 



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