of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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APPENDIX A. — No. VIII. 
STANDARD MEASURES FOR FRESH HERRINGS. — Regula- 
tions made and established by the Fishery Board for Scotland, 
under the Provisions of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 
1889, for the Construction and Branding of Measures for 
Buying, Selling, Delivering, or Receiving Fresh Herrings in 
the Scotch Herring Fishery. 
In virtue of the powers conferred on them by the Herring Fishery (Scot- 
land) Act, 1889 (52 and 53 Vict., cap. 23), sec. 4, the Fishery Board for 
Scotland hereby give notice, that from and after the 1st day of January, 
1890, a quarter-cran measure which may be used for buying, selling, 
delivering, or receiving fresh herrings in the Scotch Herring Fishery, 
being a measure of such capacity that four times its contents, w T hen filled 
with herrings, shall be equal to one cran, shall take one of the two follow- 
ing forms : — 
I. Basket Measure. 
A basket of a circular form, well bound, and composed of willows, 
pieces of hoopwood, hardwood, and cane, all of fresh quality, and of suit- 
able size and strength, which shall, for convenience in use, have two cane 
handles. A sample basket may be seen at every Fishery Office. 
Such Basket shall be of the following Dimensions : — 
Interior diameter at bottom, 14J inches; 
Interior diameter at mouth, 17J inches; 
Diagonal measurement from inside the bottom to the inner side of 
the mouth, 21 J inches; 
Height inside, 14J inches; 
Rise in the bottom, 1J inches. 
The Materials of which the Basket shall be constructed 
shall be conform to the following specification: — 
Willows. 
6 long lays in the bottom and side; 
6 short sticks in the bottom; 
20 stakes in the bottom and side; 
18 bye sticks in the side. 
Hoopwood and Hardwood Uprights. 
6 pieces of hoopwood, each 1 inch broad, to be placed in the side 
at equal distances from each other and with their bark sides 
outermost ; and 2 uprights of suitable hardwood, one of which 
shall be placed in the side in the centre of each of the spaces 
between the two ends of the handles, to be flat and smooth on 
outside to receive the official brand, notched at top and middle, 
and bevelled to inside of basket, each to be 1J inches broad 
from the top to the middle notch, and thence tapering to bottom. 
The said pieces of hoopwood and uprights shall be straigh f . 
