DUTCH HERRING FISHERY. 



within each barrel, and likewife upon the broadeft 

 Have in the middle of the barrel, which they fhall 

 fliow to the vifitors, fpringers, and coopers being 

 prefent, under the penalty of three guilders. 



9, They fhall throw no pickle upon herrings with- 

 out putting it through the fieve, for which end they 

 fhall have with them a fmall pickle difh, a fieve, and 

 a (lick. 



IQ. So foon as the bell of the cure-houfe (hall ring, 

 they fhall be obliged to repair thither to ferve the 

 fnerchant, and to pack if they are deiired ; and be- 

 fore they call lots amongft themfelves who fhall be 

 employed qn the work, they fhall firfl enquire of 

 the merchant how many herrings he defired to be 

 packed, which he fhall be obliged to declare, and 

 thole packers, who by lot falls to ferve him, fhall 

 work at faid herrings, neither more nor lefs, under 

 tfee penalty of 24 guilders, to be forfeited by him 

 who has cauied more to be packed ; and the packer 

 phat has packed more herrings than are given up by 

 the merchant, before cafting of lots who fhould 

 .work, is to be deprived of the privilege of working 

 as a packer for a month, and forfeit three guilders, 

 except it be by exprefs confent of the cure- 

 p/iafters, 



1 1 . The aforefaid packers fhall not hight or pack 

 any herrings into Deuttltonncn, .neither begin to 

 pack or hight herrings before the barrels, out of 

 which they pack, be firfl filled up with pickle ; and 

 likewife, before they begin to pack, they fhall take 

 out the undermofl and uppermoft plugs from the 

 barrels into which they pack burn-mark or circle, 

 that the pickle may run off, under the penalty of 

 jo ilivers. 



12. The packers or fillers up of herrings, fhall 

 not pack or hight herrings any otherwife than under 

 the open heavens, and for that realbn immediately 

 kave work when it begins to rain, all under the pe- 

 nalty often guilders, which the cure-mailer fhall ex- 

 act 



