HERRING FISHERIES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND HOLLAND. 
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( h ) All objectionable herrings shall be removed, from the barrels examined before affixing 
the crown brand. 
( i ) When, on the first examination of herrings for branding, they are found of bad quality, 
badly cured, or badly gutted, refusal of the brand shall be final and absolute. When, however, 
this refusal has been entirely owing to the barrels or half barrels being too slackly packed with 
herrings, or the filling up badly selected, the case shall be treated exceptionally and shall be reme- 
died by filling up or reselection only of the filling up, and the herrings may thereafter be branded, 
if in accordance with the following conditions: 
(i) They shall be presented for renewed inspection only to the officer who previously rejected 
them, who shall satisfy himself by full examination that they are, apart from slack 
packing or bad selection of the filling up, worthy of the brand. 
(ii) The filling up shall have been properly completed; but. failing this, the herrings shall be 
finally rejected and no further examination permitted. 
(ill) The officer shall retain the fees until the herrings are branded or finally rejected; in the 
latter case returning the fees. 
(iv) He shall state upon the request note the particulars of the first refusal; and if the her- 
rings be afterwards branded, the date of branding. 
When, however, a parcel is small, and upon the first inspection the deficiency in filling up is 
seen to be so very trifling that it can be supplied at once in the presence of the officer without 
difficulty or detention, the above conditions shall not apply, but the filling up may be done upon 
the spot and the branding proceeded with immediately afterwards, the officer being careful to 
satisfy himself previous to the branding that the herrings are in all other respects entitled to 
be branded. 
( k ) The officers shall see that the barrels opened are filled up and headed with proper care. 
( l ) The officers shall put a double crown on the bilge of the barrel examined and toward the 
end examined. 
(m) Oversalting shall be determined by the measure known as the cog; and the quantity of 
salt left in any barrel emptied of fish must not exceed this measure. 
IX. Branding and stenciling barrels and half barrels in respect of the quality, method 
of cure, packing, etc . , of the white herrings they contain. 
Every barrel or half barrel containing white herrings presented to one of the officers for exam- 
ination shall, if the capacity and mode of construction of the barrel or half barrel, and the quality, 
cure, selection, packing, etc., of the herrings are, in his opinion, such as to satisfy the requirements 
of these regulations, (1) have branded in his presence, by means of a hot iron, on the bilge, in close 
proximity to the curer’s name and the name of the port or place of cure, a crown surrounding the 
word “ Scotland,” a description of the herrings, viz: La. Full, Full, Mat. Full, Spent, or Mattie 
(as the case may be) , the initial letters of the examining officer’s name and the year; and (2) have 
stenciled in his presence, on the head end, a crown surrounding the same word, description, and 
letters as those branded on the bilge, with the words “ Fishery Board, Crown Brand,” stenciled 
below. 
X. Requirements of the different brands. 
In addition to what are contained in the foregoing regulations, the requirements in respect of 
the different brands shall be as follows: 
Crown “La. Full” Brand. 
Barrels or half barrels of herrings for this brand shall contain large full herrings of not less 
than 1 1 ;} inches in extreme length, as measured by the fishery officer’s gage, made for the purpose. 
Rejections under this brand shall be: 
(1) On original packing for spent, torn, broken herrings, or herrings of bad or indifferent 
quality if more than fifteen; or, on filling up, if more than six. 
(2) On original packing if the undersized amount to more than fifteen; or, on filling up, to 
more than six. And the parcel shall also be rejected if it should appear that the larger herrings 
suitable for this brand have been previously taken out. 
