HERRING FISHERY. 13 



brought in, to take flrict care that the herrings 

 Should get a fecond faking and packing ; to him 

 is alfo intrufted the infpe&ion of the fait and 

 cooper's work, or barrels in which they are pack- 

 ed. Their province is in a fpecial manner to pre- 

 vent foreign herrings being mixed with our own, 

 (in cafe any foreign cargoes arrive) and to have the 

 barrel branded with fuch marks as may prevent a 

 miftake on this head* that our trade may not fuf- 

 fer from the quality of fuch fifii. 



2dly.- He is to take care, that all damaged her- 

 rings or of bad quality, e. g. fuch as take fick af- 

 ter having cafl their fry, or on the eve of doing 

 jt, in a word, unmerchantable, be thrown afide 

 in the packing,, left fuch bad fifh corrupt the 

 found or give them a bad flavour. That moreo- 

 ver the fifh be properly falted and packed. 3dly. 

 That the mailers and crew of one bufs do not 

 put any hindrance in the way of another. In cafe 

 they were unlucky, or could not fucceed where 

 they had caft nets, they mud not remove to the 

 ground of others to diliurb their operations, nor 

 damage their nets, boats, or other implements ; in 

 cafe they do, they muft make good the damage. 

 No bufs employed in the fifhery can be fold to 

 foreigners, or hired out to them for the purpofes of 

 fiming. 4thiy. That the faid overfeer do mfpeft 

 dl the barrels before they are taken on board the 

 buffcs, reje& fuch as (hall appear unfit, and mark 

 fuch as he approves with the name of the cooper, 



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