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them otherwife, they .(hall challenge, or charge the 

 packers, upon their oath, that they have taken to 

 make them iufficient, and that they preis them bet- 

 ter with their hands in laying as they ought, and the 

 packers fhall be obliged to hearken to their reproofs 

 and directions. 



4. The fpringers and coopers fhail take notice 

 that the packers fhall pack no herrings before the 

 barrels out of which they pack are firft made full 

 with pickle, and likewife take notice that the pack- 

 ers do not pack or hight herrings in any deutel t</. 

 ncn, as alfo that the plugs below and above be fr 

 taken out of the barrels that the pickle may run <; 

 thole that does otherwife (hall be delated to the cure- 

 mailer, who is immediately to be acquainted with it. 



5. The fpringers (hall take narrow notice that the 

 right hand of the barrel into which herrings that 

 have the burn-mark are packed, be marked on the 

 under or inner fide with the packer's mark, and they 

 fhall not clofe up or head up any herrings before 

 they have feen laid mark diir.inc~r.ly, under the p 

 nalty of 20 (livers. 



6. No man fhall prefume or take in hand to rut 

 off, or fuffer to be cut off, any circles or marks that 

 are put on the barrels by the cure-mafters, and by 

 fo doing get a fecond cure performed on faid 

 herrings. 



7. The aforefaid coopers (hall bind every barrel 

 that is marked with the great burn-mark with 20 

 hoops, or more, according to the largenefs or fmall- 

 nefs of the hoops ; tJie warks and outfhots of faid 

 herrings, with 16 hoops and no lefs ; alfo the Ceulen 

 brand with 16 hoops, and the warks of them with 16 

 hoops of the bed fort that the merchant has. 



After all jny enquiries in Holland and Great 



Britain relative to the Dutch ; or* Milling and 



curing the herrings 1 V.M; .,"ib!e of 



ciency in the kno . 



