184 CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HERRING-FISHERY. 



' loading, and loading the same, upon payment of the ordi- 

 ' nary dues, where harbours are built, that is, such as are 

 ' paid for ships, boats, and other goods, and discharges all 

 ' other exactions, as a night's fishing in the week, com- 

 ' monly called Saturday's fishing, top-money, stallage, and 

 ' the like ; and for the better advancing and carrying on 

 ' the same trade, her Majesty, with consent aforesaid, or- 

 ' dains and enacts, that all the barrels made use of by 

 ' the said fishers shall be of the largeness, goodness, and 

 ' quality, and marked as is prescribed by the fifth Act ol 

 ' the fourth session of the first Parliament of William and 

 ' Mary, and that all the herring and white fish put into 

 ' them shall be pined, cured, and packed, from the bottom 

 ' to the top with foreign salt alien arly ; and further it is 

 ' ordained, in manner foresaid, that no salmon, herring, 

 ' or white fish, be shipped or transferred from this king- 

 ' dom to foreign countries but such as are made by the 

 ' subjects of this kingdom, and marked by the seal of the 

 ' marker and merchant, exporter thereof, to the effect it 

 ' may be known who has made the same ; and the collec- 



* tors and other officers of the customs are hereby com- 

 ' manded to take and seize all salmon, herring, or white 

 ' fish, that shall be shipped in their several precincts of 

 ' exportation, unless made and marked, as aforesaid ; and, 

 ' to prevent the counterfeiting of the foresaid marks, 

 ' her Majesty, with consent foresaid, does allow any 

 ' company, society, or single person, to use and appro- 

 ' priate to themselves any particular mark to be used by 

 ' them upon salmon, herring, or white fish, by and attour 

 ' the common mark and burn of the port from whence they 

 ' are exported, and to registrate their taking and using 



* such a mark in the Publick Register in Edinburgh ; and 

 ' her Majesty, with advice and consent of the said estates. 



