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their work, and refrain from fmoking tobacco, 

 under penalty of being difcharged from working, 



1 8. The packers and highters of herrings fhall be 

 bound to obierve the aforefaid directions in every 

 point, obey the cure-matters in the exercife of their 

 office, on pain of being fufpended from their em- 

 ployments, and the arbitral correction of the magii- 

 trates according to the nature of their crime. 



Infiruftions by the Ma?iftr cites of Rotterdam to tbf 

 Servants attending their Herring Cellars named by 

 them Plaatjknegten. 



i. No man fhall be admitted or allowed to ferve 

 as a labourer or overfeer in the herring works, ex- 

 cept fuch as <have taken an oath to obferve the fol- 

 lowing articles, and are approved of by the ma- 

 gittrates. 



-2. All fuch fervants or overfeers fhall be obliged 

 to take up a faithful and exact account of what her- 

 rings they receive, for their ;naiters ufe, out of the 

 buffes, by writing down the fnerman, or matter of 

 the bufs's mark, adding to it a diftinction, what 

 forts the herrings confift of, or whether they be full 

 herrings cured with great fait, manis herrings which 

 are their fat herrings ; herrings caught after St. 

 James's day, St. Bartholomew's day, cruife herrings, 

 or herrings caught after, or in the months of Sep- 

 tember or October ; yelen herrings, or lean fpanned 

 herrings ; and take care they dont mix them by layr 

 ing them through one another, on the quay, ftreet, 

 or warehoufe, but keep them leparate according to 

 their marks 



3. When the vifitors or cure-matters Ihall enquire 

 for a fight of any herrings in tbeir cuftodv, the ievc- 

 ral overfeers of the herring works fhall (how them to 

 them diftinctly, according to their forts. 



4. When herrings are filled up, the aforefaid fer- 



vants 



