HISTORY OF THE 



lowing articles, and be approved of by the magif- 

 trates. 



2. They fhall throw no herring into the packing 

 tub before they have firft put into it two and one half 

 or three barrels of clear pickle, which pickle is to 

 be put through a fieve to clean .it from fcales and 

 other naftinefs. 



3. They fhall not raife up any herrings or carry 

 them to the packing tub before they have firft filled 

 up the barrels with clear pickle, and the cure-mafter 

 as vifitor has performed his office. 



4. In railing the herrings they fhall narrowly no- 

 tice the fea marks, and obferve whether the herrings 

 they take up are of the fame fort which ought to be 

 packed for fuch a burn-mark, viz. the barrels marked 

 i, containing jacobi herrings, to be packed into the 

 circle or jacobi burn-mark > the Bartholomew her- 

 rings marked B, to be packed into the Bartholomew 

 burn-mark, and the crofs herring marked X fhall be 

 packed into the crofs burn-mark, and great burn- 

 mark. 



5. In cafe they fhall difcover any other mixture 

 of herrings than the fort that is appointed for fuch a 

 burn-mark as they are ordained to be marked with, 



.or have any doubt about them, or find the herrings 

 better in the top than in the middle, they fhall im- 

 mediately carry them off from the packing tub and 

 fhew them to the vifitors, and take fpecial care that 

 no herrings that are rejected by the vifitors fhall be 

 fraudulently brought back to the tub or thrown 

 into it. 



6. They fhall throw no more herrings into the tub 

 at a time than they can handfomely lift up with their 

 hands. 



7. They fhall raife only feven barrels, and put 

 thofe herrings into the tubs, and afterwards put the 

 pickle that is in the tubs through a fieve before they 

 offer, to throw in more herrings. 



8. They fhall not allow the boys to take herrings 



out 



