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shall not have been marked or branded, and for which a certificate or certificates shall not have been given as is in this act provided, such owner shall for each cask forfeit and pay two dollars; and in case any salted beef or pork shall be taken on board any vessel for which a clearance shall be by law required, to be transported or exported coastwise, it shall be the duty of the owner or master of such vessel to produce to the collector or other officer authorized by law to give such clearance, a certificate or certificates as is in this act provided, together with a copy or copies thereof, and therein or annexed thereto to take and subscribe the oath as is in this act directed, and to lodge such copy or copies with such collector or other officer, and to retain such original certificate in his possession.

SEC. 19. Any beef or pork which may be brought into this state from any state in the United States, that shall have been inspected and branded in the state from which the same is brought into this state conformably to the law thereof, may be exported from this state without re-inspection: provided, such beef or pork shall be accompanied by a certificate from the inspector by whom the same was so inspected and branded, specifying the marks, numbers and quality of the same.

SEC. 20. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any salted beef or pork in casks, before it shall have been inspected and branded as aforesaid, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each cask.

SEC. 21. All penalties and forfeitures arising by force of this act, shall be recovered in an action of debt before any court competent to try the same; one half thereof to the use of the state, the other half thereof to him who shall sue for the same.

SEC. 22. This act shall not be construed to repeal or to affect an act entitled an act authorizing the city of Providence to elect an inspector of beef and pork for said city, passed June 29th, 1833, nor the inspection of beef and pork in said city: provided the inspection be conformable to this

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SEC. 23. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect the exportation of any beef or pork that shall have been inspected agreeably to the laws in force before the passing of this act.

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An Act regulating the Inspection of Pickled Fish.

1. Packers of fish to see that they have been properly pickled, &c.

2. Fish to be sorted-casks well seasoned and hooped-capacity of casksbranded.

3. Penalty for offering for sale or exporting fish without inspection-exception.

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4. Penalty for shifting fish from cask, &c.-making false brand.

5. Penalty on packer for fraud or neglect.
6. Packer's fees.

7 Packer to give bond.
8. Penalties how recovered.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. In every town in which pickled fish are packed up for sale, or exportation from this state, the packers of such town shall see that the same have been properly pickled; that they are properly repacked in casks, in good shipping order, with good salt, sufficient in each cask to preserve such fish from damage to any foreign port.

SEC. 2. Pickled fish, whether codfish, mackerel, menhaden, herrings, or other fish, shall be sorted, and one kind only be put into one cask. Each cask shall be well seasoned, and bound with twelve hoops; those for menhaden and herrings, of the capacity to hold twenty-eight gallons; and those for other fish, of the capacity, if a barrel, to hold two hundred pounds, and if a half barrel, one hundred pounds' weight of fish; each cask to be full, and the fish sound and well cured. Each cask being first searched, examined and approved by a packer, shall, when packed or repacked for exportation, be branded legibly on one head, with the kind of fish it contains, and the weight thereof; or the capacity of the cask, with the first letter of the christian and the whole of the surname of the packer, with the name of the town, and with the word "Rhode Island," in letters not less than three fourths of an inch long, to denote that the same is merchantable and in good order for exportation. In addition to the foregoing each cask of pickled codfish and mackerel offered for sale or for exportation from this state, shall also be branded No. 1., No. 2., or No. 3., to denote the quality of such fish: provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall hinder any fisherman or owners of fish coming to this state from their fishing trips, from selling or reshipping their fish to any other of the United States, without being packed into barrels or half barrels.

SEC. 3. If any person shall offer for sale in or attempt to export from this state any pickled fish which have not been approved by a sworn packer, or in casks which are not brand

PICKLED FISH.

ed as afore provided, he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each offence.

SEC. 4. If any person shall shift any fish from any cask after the same have been branded by the packer, and shall offer to sell or export the same from this state, or shall brand any cask into which the same shall be shifted, or shall brand any cask with the branding iron of a packer, or with any iron made in imitation thereof, shall forfeit a sum not less than thirty dollars, nor more than one hundred and sixty dollars, for each offence.

SEC. 5. If any packer shall be guilty of any fraud or neglect in packing any fish contrary to this act, or shall brand any cask not thoroughly examined according to the provisions of this act, he shall forfeit the sum of sixteen dollars for each offence.

SEC. 6. The packers of fish shall be paid for opening, assorting, inspecting, weighing, pickling, packing or repacking, heading up, nailing and giving a certificate, if pickled codfish or mackerel, twenty cents for every barrel, and fifteen cents for every half barrel, by the owner thereof: provided, however, that for all pickled codfish or mackerel which have been inspected in some one of the United States, and which shall not in the judgment of the packer require repacking, the said owner shall pay to the packer eight cents only, for unheading, inspecting, reheading, branding, nailing and giving a certificate thereof; and for all other except codfish and mackerel, the owner thereof shall pay the packer twelve and a half cents for every cask.

SEC. 7. Every packer shall give bond to the town treasurer of the town in which he shall be appointed, in the sum of one thousand dollars, with sufficient surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of such town treasurer, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

SEC. 8. All penalties or forfeitures incurred under this act shall and may be prosecuted for and recovered by action of debt, before any court competent to try the same; one half thereof to and for the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to and for the use of the state.

An Act to regulate the Survey and Admeasurement of Lumber, brought by water or imported into this Stute.

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It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be a surveyor general of lumber for the city of Providence, who shall be well skilled in the surveying and admeasurement of lumber, to be appointed in the month of February annually, by the city council of said city, who shall hold his office for one year, and until a successor be chosen, unless sooner removed: before he shall enter upon the duties of his office he shall give bond with two sureties to the city treasurer in the sum of two thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties; and he shall be sworn or affirmed faithfully to perform the same; and such surveyor general, when so qualified, shall have power to appoint such number of deputy surveyors as he may judge sufficient, not less than six, for whose official conduct he shall be answerable, the said appointments subject to the approval of the city council; and shall take bonds from said deputies for the faithful discharge of their duties in the sum of five hundred dollars each, with two sureties; and they shall be sworn or affirmed faithfully to perform the same; and shall be removable for neglect of duty by the surveyor general.

SEC. 2. In the survey and admeasurement of lumber brought by water, or imported, discharged or delivered in 'said city, whether on the land or into a boat or vessel, the following rules and regulations are hereby established: in the survey of all kinds of pine boards, planks and joists, they shall be divided into three sorts, namely: the first sort shall be denominated"clear," and shall include boards not less than one inch thick, free from rot, knots and shakes, and square edged; provided that such boards as may be clear and equal in qual

ity to clear, but may be deficient in thickness as aforesaid, shall be received as clear by making such allowance for the deficiency in thickness as may be required to make them equal to one inch thick. The second sort shall be denominated "merchantable," and shall include boards not less than seven-eighths of an inch thick, nearly free from rot and nearly square edged, and suitable for covering buildings. The third sort shall be denominated "refuse," and shall include all boards, plank and joists not included in the other two denominations, with due allowance for rots. And plank and joists shall be surveyed as to quality and numbers the same as boards, and their contents measured and marked, what they may contain, board measure. All boards less than three-fourths of an inch thick shall be surveyed and measured in the same manner, as to quality, quantity and numbers, as though they were of the thickness of one inch.

In the survey of spruce, hemlock and juniper boards, plank, and sawed and hewed timber, there shall be two sorts; the first sort shall be denominated "merchantable,” and shall include all boards, plank, joist and timber that are sound and square edged and well sawed; the second sort shall be denominated "refuse," and shall include all other descriptions, with due allowance for rot.

In the survey of ash, maple, and other hard wood boards, plank, joists and timber, there shall be two sorts; the first sort shall be denominated "merchantable," and shall include all boards, plank, joist and timber that are sound and free from bad knots, and free from shakes and rots; the second sort shall be denominated "refuse," and shall include all other descriptions, with due allowance for rots.

In the survey of all boards, plank, joists and timber, the contents of the same in board measure shall be truly marked thereon in plain and durable numbers, and all other marks, if not correct, shall be erased; and in marking the contents of any lumber, the board measure marks commonly used in marking boards shall be used, and no other; and the merchantable lumber shall be marked thus, and the refuse lumber shall be marked, and shall be plainly and durably marked on each and every piece; deduction shall be made for splits not exceeding in any case one half the extent of the split. All boards, plank, joist and timber shall be received and sold according to the contents thereof, as fixed and marked under the aforesaid regulations; but all surveys shall be made under the inspection of the surveyor general or by his deputies, by his directions; and application shall be made by all persons

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