of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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a crown, with the initial letters of his name, and the year of branding 
thereon ; the brand on the basket to be stamped once on each of the 
two uprights of hardwood placed in the side of the measure, and that on 
the box to be stamped once on the centre of the right end of the measure. 
In the event of a basket or box which has been branded as aforesaid, 
being found on subsequent inspection by the General or Assistant 
Inspector or any of the Fishery Officers of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 
to be disconform in any respect to the foregoing specification, such 
Inspector or Fishery Officer shall cause the brand thereon to be defaced. 
The Regulations made on the 25th November last are hereby revoked. 
Excerpt from the Herring Fishery {Scotland) Act, 1889. 
4. Any person buying, selling, delivering, or receiving fresh herrings in 
the Scotch herring fishery shall be entitled to use for the purpose thereof 
the measure known as the cran, or a quarter-cran measure, being a 
measure of such capacity that four times its content, when filled with 
herrings, shall be equal to one cran ; and such measure shall be made of 
wood, or of such other material as the Fishery Board for Scotland shall 
direct, and shall be made and branded or otherwise marked in accordance 
with any regulations for the time being in force of the Fishery Board for 
Scotland, which regulations that Board are hereby authorised to make, and 
from time to time to alter and revoke as they see fit. 
These measures made, branded, or otherwise marked in all respects in 
conformity with the regulations for the time being in force of the said 
Board, shall be the only legal measures for use in buying, selling, de- 
livering, or receiving fresh herrings in the Scotch herring fishery; and 
any person using any box, basket, or other measure not so made, branded 
or otherwise marked, shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary 
Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding five pounds for 
the first offence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the second or 
any subsequent offence; and also to the forfeiture of the measure or 
measures, which may be seized and destroyed or otherwise disposed of 
by any superintendent of the herring fishery or other officer employed in 
the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Acts : provided always, 
that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the sale of herrings by 
weight or number or in bulk. 
A basket and a box measure made and branded according to the fore- 
going regulations may be seen at the Assistant Inspector's Office 
in Leithf or at any of the District Fishery Offices of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland; and measures 7nay be presented for the 
purpose of being branded at such time and place as may be ar- 
ranged by the Fishery Officer of the District. 
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