of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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APPENDIX A.— No. VIIL 
STANDAKD MEASUKES FOE FRESH HERRINGS.— Regula- 
tioQS 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 Herring?} in 
the Scottish 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, when 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, 14| inches ; 
Interior diameter at mouth, 17 J inches ; 
Diagonal measurement from inside the bottom to the inner side ef 
the mouth, \ inches; 
Height inside, inches; 
Kise in the bottom, 1 J inches. 
The Materials of which the basket shall be constructeb 
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 Hardivood 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 middlcj 
and bevelled to inside of basket, each to be 1^- inches broad 
from the top to the middle notch, and thence tapering to bottom. 
The said pieces of hoopwood and uprights shall be straight. 
