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dollars, to be recovered by any person who shall sue therefor, Mode of recov in action of debt; one half thereof to his own use, and the priation. other half to the use of this State. And all notes and securities for the payment of money, or delivery of property, made payable to such or given to any such association, institution or company, not be void. authorized as aforesaid, shall be null and void.

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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person or Bank Penalty for is shall receive, issue or pass any note, bill, order or check, oth- or receiving er than the notes or bills of any Bank incorporated in this der 5 dollars, State, or in the State of New-Hampshire, or Commonwealth except, &c. of Massachusetts, or by authority of the United States, for a less sum than five dollars, or whereon less than five dollars shall be due at the time of such issuing or passing thereof, with an intent that the same shall be circulated as currency, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of fifty dollars; to be recovered by indictment in the Supreme Judicial Court, to the use of the State, indictment in the Circuit Court of Common Pleas to the use of the county, or action of debt, to the use of any person who shall first sue therefor, in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

[Approved March 13, 1821.]

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CHAPTER CXLVIII.

An Act to regulate the Inspection of Beef and Pork intended to be exported from this State.

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SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent Governor to atives, in Legislature assembled, That there shall be an Inspect- appoint inspee or General of beef and pork for this State, who shall be well beef and pork; skilled in the knowledge of the same, to be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of Council, and to be by them removeable at pleasure, who before he shall enter who shall give on the duties of his office, shall give bonds with sufficient sureties to the Treasurer of this State, in the penal sum of four thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duty; and shall also be sworn faithfully to perform the same. He may apAnd such inspector shall have power, when so qualified, to point deputies appoint, and shall appoint deputy inspectors, who shall be who shall be removeable by him at pleasure, in every sea port town in this bond. State where beef and pork are exported; and a sufficient number in the several counties in the State to accommodate the citizens without any unreasonable delay; for which deputies he shall be answerable; and the said deputy inspectors shall also be sworn for the faithful discharge of their duty, and shall give bond to the Inspector General, with surety to his satisfaction, in a sum not exceeding one thousand, nor less than three hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duty, according to the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That every barrel and half quality and barrel in which beef or pork shall be packed and repacked and balf barrels

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to contain beef for exportation, shall be made of good seasoned rift white oak, white ash, or maple staves and heading free from any defect; each barrel shall contain two hundred pounds of beef or pork, and each half barrel one hundred pounds of beef or pork: the beef barrels to measure not less than sixteen inches, nor more than sixteen and one half inches between the chimes, and to be not less than twenty-eight, nor more than twenty-eight and a half inches long, to be covered three fourths of the length with good oak, ash, elm, leverwood or ing hooped walnut hoops, leaving one fourth in the centre; the heads and staves to be of a proper thickness, the hoops to be well set and drove together; the half barrels to contain not less than fifteen nor more than fifteen and a half gallons, to be hooped in the same manner as the whole barrels. The pork barrels shall measure seventeen inches and one quarter between the chimes, and contain not less than thirty-one gallons, nor more than thirty-one gallons and one half, to be hooped in the same manner as beef barrels: and all beef and pork barrels and half barrels shall be branded on the bilge with the manufacturer's name.

Quality of beef for exportation.

Different kinds of beef.

Mess beef.

Beef No. 1.

No. 2.

No. 3.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That no beef shall be pack ed or repacked in barrels or half barrels for exportation, unless it be of fat cattle not under two years old; that all such beef shall be cut into pieces as nearly square as may be, and which in size shall not exceed eight pounds, nor be less than four pounds. That all beef which the inspector or deputy inspector shall find on examination to have been killed at a proper age, to be fat and otherwise good and merchantable, shall be sorted and divided by him into five different sorts for packing or repacking into barrels or half barrels to be denominated Mess, No. 1, No. 2. No. 3, and Hearts and Cheeks. And mess beef shall consist of oxen, cows and steers well fatted, of three years old and upwards and weighing six hundred pounds and upwards: the shin, shoulder, clod, and neck shall be taken from the fore quarters, and the leg and the leg rand from the hind quarters; and each barrel and half barrel containing beef of this description, shall be branded on one of the heads with the words Mess Beef: No. 1, shall consist of oxen, cows, steers and heifers not under three years old, and weighing not under four hundred pounds, and to average five hundred and twenty pounds, without any necks or shanks. On one head of each barrel and half barrel containing beef of this description, shall be branded No. 1. No. 2, shall consist of fat cattle of all descriptions not before mentioned of two years old and upwards, (bulls excepted,) with not more than half a neck and two shanks, and without any hocks each barrel and half barrel of which shall be branded No. 2. And those parts of beef which are excluded from mess, No. 1, and No. 2, (not excluding hearts and checks,) shall be packed and inspected by the Inspector General, or

his deputies, in the same manner as No. 1, or No. 2, and shall be branded No. 3; first taking from said pieces, excluded as aforesaid, viz: the end of the neck, weighing not less than four pounds, nor more than six pounds; and from the shank and shin of each quarter not less than four pounds, nor more than eight pounds: which pieces thus excluded, shall not be exported from this State. And the hearts and cheek Hearts and pieces of beef may be inspected, and when thus inspected checks. shall be branded Hearts and Cheeks. And every barrel of Beef, how beef shall be well salted with seventy-five pounds of clean St. salted and Ubes, Isle of May, Lisbon or Turks Island salt, or eighty pounds of Liverpool salt, or other salt of equal quality, exclusive of a pickle made of fresh water, as strong as salt will make it; and to each barrel of mess beef shall be added six ounces of saltpetre; and to each barrel of No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, Beef, shall be added four ounces of saltpetre; and each half barrel of beef shall be salted and saltpetred with one half of the quantity of salt and saltpetre above mentioned.

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Quality and

Clear pork.

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SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all pork packed or repacked in barrels or half barrels for exportation, shall be kinds of pork. sorted and divided by the inspector or his deputy, and denominated as follows:-Clear pork, Bone middlings, Navy mess pork, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3; and in all cases the following parts shall be taken out as refuse, viz: nose pieces or faces, ears, brains, tails, feet and lard. Clear pork shall consist of the best pieces of large well fatted hogs, weighing three hundred pounds and upwards, free from bones or the lean part of the meat. Bone middlings shall consist of middle pieces Bone midtaken from hogs well fatted, weighing two hundred and thirty pounds or upwards. Navy mess pork shall consist of all parts Navy mess. of the carcass, well fatted, weighing from one hundred and sixty pounds, to two hundred and thirty pounds, except the head, fore and hind legs, the shoulder joint, lard and refuse parts above mentioned. No. 1, shall consist of all parts of, hogs well fatted, averaging two hundred and twenty pounds or upwards, and each of which shall weigh not less than one. hundred and eighty pounds, and to have no more heads, legs, shoulders, or other coarse parts than belong to one carcass, deducting the lard and refuse as above. No. 2, shall consist No. 2. of all parts of one and an half hog well fatted, which shall weigh two hundred pounds, deducting the lard and refuse as above. No. 2, also in half barrels, shall consist of pig pork, all parts of one carcass or not, and not to contain the head or legs of more than one carcass, excluding the lard and refuse as above. And in all cases where the legs of pork are taken out for bacon, or for any other purpose, the weight shall not be made up with heads or shoulders, but with other parts of the carcass not less valuable than the legs would be if they were salted. No. 3, shall consist of the merchantable parts of wholesome pork, of a quality inferior to good No. 2 pork,

No. 3.

and the barrels shall contain two hundred pounds of pork each, and there shall not be any more than the merchantable parts of two carcasses of pork in one barrel, except where any of the legs are taken out, the same number of shoulder pieces, and no more may be added, making up the deficiency Pork heads or of weight in better parts of a carcass of pork. Barrels filled with pork heads or feet, shall be branded Pork heads, or Feet, Barrels of pork, as the case may be: And each barrel of pork shall be well how salted, &c. salted with seventy pounds of clean coarse salt; exclusive of a strong pickle, and shall be branded on one of the heads with the quality of the pork it contains.

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SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of tors to inspect the Inspector General and his deputies to attend, as soon as where Courice, may be, within twenty-four hours after request made, at any suitable place within the county where he resides, for the purpose of inspecting any quantity of beef or pork exceeding thirty barrels: And whenever said inspector or his deputies shall have inspected and assorted beef or pork, as the law requires, the said inspector or his deputies, with their own laborers and coopers, or such other laborers and coopers as they shall employ, and for whose conduct in said business they shall be accountable, shall cut, weigh, pack, salt and cooper the said beef, which they have thus inspected. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all barrels and half barrels of pork and beef packed or repacked for exportation, shall be branded with the first letter of the christian name, and the surname at length, of the inspector who has inspected the same, with the name of the town where, and with the month and year in which the same has been, or may hereafter be so inspected, in legible letters, with the addition of the word Maine; and every barrel and half barrel of the three first sorts shall also be branded with the name of the person for whom the pork or beef was packed.

Manner of branding barrels and half

barrels of beef and pork.

Name of

abbreviated in

certain cases of inspection.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the Inspector General month may be or his deputy or either of them, may, when the month in which any beef or pork shall be inspected, shall consist of more than one syllable, so abbreviate the name of the month, as conveniently to brand the same on the head of each barrel or half barrel, by him or them inspected.

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SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the Inspector General and his deputies shall not, nor shall either of them, brand ages of provis any packages of provisions, other than those which they have inspected, and have caused to be weighed and packed as the law requires. And if any inspector or deputy inspectspected, or be or, appointed by virtue of this Act, shall be guilty of any neglect or fraud in inspecting any beef or pork, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, or shall mark with their respective brands any cask containing beef or pork, which has not been actually inspected, he or they shall forfeit and pay ten dollars for each and every cask so falsely marked.

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SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That no deputy appointed Penalty for by virtue of this Act, shall inspect or brand any cask of beef tor branding or pork out of the town or county for which he shall be ap- beef or pork pointed, under the penalty of fifty dollars; and if any per- town for which son, other than the said inspector or his deputy shall presume he is appointed. to stamp or brand any cask of beef or pork, in the manner directed by this Act, every person so offending, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars for each and every cask so unlawfully branded.

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SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That if any inspector or Penalty for indeputy inspector shall neglect or refuse to brand any beef or sal or neglect pork to be exported agreeably to this Act, he shall be sub-pork intended ject and liable to the same penalties and forfeitures as are recoveralbe in the eighth section of this Act for falsely marking any cask.

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SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall in- Penalty for termix, take out or shift any beef or pork out of any cask in- fraudulently spected or branded as by this Act is required, or put in any shifting con other beef or pork for sale or exportation contrary to the intention of this Act, the person or persons so offending shall for each and every offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars.

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SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That no person or persons Penalty for exwhatsoever shall ship or export from this State any salted beef and pork, pork, except in barrels or half barrels, nor any salted beef except in barexcept in barrels or half barrels of the quality and dimensions barrels made, herein provided, and the contents thereof are inspected and contents inpacked, and unless the casks containing the same are brand-speed and ed agreeably to the direction in this Act.

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SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That no salted beef or pork collector of shall be exported out of this State, unless the master or own furnished with er of the vessel produces to the Collector, or any other offi- certificate of cer authorized by the laws of the United States to clear ves- branding, by sels out, a certificate from the Inspector General or his deputy, that the same has been inspected and branded according to the directions in this Act; and each certificate shall express the number of barrels and half barrels of beef or pork of each sort. And the master or owner of every vessel in To be sworn which beef or pork, is so exported, on producing said certifi cate, shall take and subscribe the following oath before the officer authorized as aforesaid.

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I, A. B. of the, do swear, that according to the best Form of oath. of my knowledge and belief the certificate hereunto annexed contains the whole quantity of salted beef, (or pork, as the case may be,) on board the master; and that no

salted beef, (or pork, as the case may be.) is shipped on board said vessel for the ship's company, on freight or on cargo, but what is inspected and branded, according to the law of this State. So help me GOD.

SEC. 14. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act

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