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Appendices to Eighth Annual Report 
Binding. 
The basket shall be well bound, and shall have strong and suitable 
binding and waling at the mouth and bottom, and a litching of 
cane at each of the following places, viz. : — 
The lower edge of the bottom binding; the centre; and the 
lower edge of the mouth binding. 
II. Box Measure. 
An oblong box, constructed of properly seasoned fir or other suitable 
wood, well bound with iron hoops secured by nails, all of suitable size and 
strength, which shall, for convenience in use, have two rope handles. A 
sample box may be seen at every Fishery Office. 
Such Box shall be of the following Dimensions: — 
Length inside, 31 inches; 
Depth inside, 7 inches; 
Breadth inside, 14f inches; 
Sides and top, § inch thick; 
Ends, | inch thick; 
Bottom, \ inch thick; 
Cross bottom openings not to exceed \ inch in width. 
The Materials of which the Box shall be constructed shall 
be conform to the following specification : 
Blocks. 
Corner blocks inside, 7 inches long by 2J inches square, with 1 inch 
bevelled off inside corners, and similarly bevelled on both the 
clear sides of the top, of those in front. 
Wooden Straps. 
Two bottom straps, f inch thick, and 2J inches broad ; one middle 
strap, J inch thick and 4 inches broad. 
Lid. 
To be in two pieces : one a fixture 5 inches broad ; the other 
movable, fastened with two strong hinges, screw fastenings at 
neck, and nailed; with suitable clamps. 
Binding. 
The box shall be strongly nailed, and bound with 14 straps of iron 
hooping 1 inch wide, each fastened with four nails — 4 straps 
being on the sides, 4 on front corners, 2 on back corners, and 
4 on fixed portion of the top. 
Handles. 
Handles to be of | inch rope, with a double crown knot inside ; the 
fag strands not to exceed 2 inches in length. 
It shall be lawful for the General or Assistant Inspector, or any of the 
Fishery Officers of the Fishery Board of Scotland, to authorise any basket 
or box measure fulfilling the before-mentioned conditions, intended for the 
purchase, sale, delivery, or receipt of fresh herrings in the Scotch herring 
fishery, to be branded in his presence with a hot iron having the figure of 
