SECTION 1. No hops shall be shipped or exported from this State unless the same are duly inspected, packed and marked, and of the quality herein mentioned: they shall be in square bags, each bag to contain two hundred pounds of merchantable hops as near as may be.

SEC. 2. No hops shall be deemed merchantable unless they have been well picked, are free from stems and leaves and dried on a kiln; and the bags in which they are packed shall be made sufficiently strong to preserve the hops from damage, and of such a texture as will fairly receive the marks of the cultivator and inspector; and each bag shall be marked with the name of the cultivator and of the town in which he lives.

SEC. 3. The inspector or his deputy shall examine the contents of every bag of hops intended to be exported, in such manner as to ascertain the quality of such hops, and if found merchantable as before prescribed, and firmly packed, and that they have been so packed at least ten days previous to such examination, and that the bags are such as have been prescribed, he shall distinguish the same by marking them in legible characters with the words first sort, second sort, or refuse, as their quality may be; he shall also add the date of the year of which in his opinion they are the growth, the initial letter of his christian name, and the whole of his surname, and the letters N. H.

SEC. 4. The inspector shall receive for inspecting, marking, weighing and delivering an attested schedule of the same, at the rate of ten cents for every hundred pounds' weight so inspected, to be paid by the purchaser, exclusive of the charges of repacking and mending the bags when necessary, which shall be paid by the seller, and exclusive also of storage, if said hops should be stored by the inspector more than thirty days after being inspected; and such inspector shall have a lien on said hops for his fees until paid. Each deputy shall pay to the inspector one fifth part of all the fees by him received for inspecting as aforesaid.

SEC. 5. If the inspector or any deputy, on application made to him to examine any hops, shall unnecessarily neglect or delay to examine, mark and weigh the same, he shall forfeit for each of fence five dollars.

SEC. 6. If the inspector or any deputy shall be guilty of any fraud in inspecting hops, contrary to the true intent of this chapter, or shall put his mark on any bag or package of hops which has not been actually examined, inspected and found merchantable, he shall forfeit twenty dollars for each bag or package so falsely marked.

SEC. 7. If any person shall intermix, take out or shift any hops from any bag inspected and marked as aforesaid, or shall put in any other hops for sale or exportation contrary to the true intent of this chapter, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 8. If any person shall counterfeit or alter any mark belonging to or proper to be used by any inspector of hops, or shall mark any bag of hops with any letter or mark aforesaid, he shall forfeit the hops so marked and also the sum of fifty dollars.

SEC. 9. If any person shall empty any bag of hops marked as by this chapter is required, and shall put in any other hops for sale or exportation without first cutting out said marks, he shall forfeit for each offence fifty dollars.

SEC. 10. No hops shall be shipped from this State, unless the master or owner of the vessel in which such hops are shipped shall produce to the collector or other officer authorized by the laws of the United States to clear vessels out, a certificate from the inspector or some deputy, (for which he may charge twenty-five cents before delivery,) that such hops have been duly inspected, marked and weighed agreeably to the laws of this Štate, and also the number of bags of each sort of hops and the weight of each bag. SEC. 11. The master or owner, on producing such certificate to such officer shall take and subscribe the following oath:

"I, A. B., of , do swear that according to the best of my knowledge and belief, the certificate hereunto annexed contains the whole quantity of hops on board the

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ter, and that there are no hops on board said vessel for the use of the ship's company, on freight or on cargo, but what have been inspected and marked according to the laws of this State. So help me God."

SEC. 12. If any person shall export or ship for exportation out of this State any hops not marked and inspected as by law is required, such exporter or shipper shall forfeit twenty dollars, and the master of any vessel having the same on board shall forfeit ten dollars for every bag so shipped or exported.

SEC. 13. If any hops, not inspected and marked as aforesaid, shall be exported or shipped for exportation from this State contrary to the provisions of this chapter, any justice upon information may issue a warrant under his hand and seal directed to the sheriff, his deputy or some constable, requiring such officer to seize such hops and secure the same for trial.

SEC. 14. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to affect any hops conveyed or transported from this State by inland carriage.

SECTION 1. The inspector of fish or some deputy shall see that all kinds of split pickled fish and fish for barrelling, intended for exportation, have been well struck with salt or pickle in the first instance, and preserved sweet, free from rust, taint or damage.

SEC. 2. Such fish as are in good order and of good quality, shall be packed in tierces, barrels or half barrels; the tierces to contain three hundred pounds, the barrels two hundred pounds, and the half barrels one hundred pounds of fish each; and shall be packed with good clean salt suitable for the purpose; and the casks after being packed and headed up with the fish and sufficient salt to preserve the same, shall be filled up with a clear strong pickle.

SEC. 3. Each cask shall be filled with fish of one and the same kind, and shall be branded salmon, shad, alewives, herring, or as the case may be; those of the best quality caught in the right season to be most approved and free from damage shall be branded cargo No. 1; those which remain after the best have been selected, being sweet, free from taint, rust or damage, shall be branded cargo No. 2; and the thinnest and poorest of those that are sweet and wholesome, shall be branded cargo No. 3.

SEC. 4. There shall be four numbers of mackerel; those of the best quality, not mutilated, measuring not less than thirteen

inches from the extremity of the head to the fork of the tail, free from rust, taint or damage, shall be branded number one. The next best quality, being not less than eleven inches measuring as aforesaid, free from rust, taint or damage, shall be branded number two. Those that remain after the above selections, if free from taint or damage, and not less than thirteen inches measuring as aforesaid, shall be branded number three, large. Those of the next inferior quality, free from taint or damage, not less than ten inches in length measuring as aforesaid, shall be branded number three. All other mackerel, free from taint or damage, shall be branded number four. (Laws of 1847, chap. 499, sec. 1.)

SEC. 5. The inspector shall also brand in plain, legible letters on the head of every such cask the initial letter of his christian name and the whole of his surname, the name of the town for which he is appointed, and the abbreviation N. H. All mackerel shall also be branded on each cask with the month in which the same is packed. (R. S., sec. 4.)

SEC. 6. All herring or alewives intended to be smoked and packed, shall be sufficiently salted and smoked to cure and preserve the same, and afterwards closely packed in the boxes in dry weather. (R. S., sec. 5.)

SEC. 7. All smoked alewives or herrings shall be divided and sorted by the inspector or some deputy, and denominated, according to their quality, first sort or second sort. The first sort shall consist of all the largest and best cured fish; the second sort of the smaller but well cured fish; and in all cases all fish which are belly broken, tainted, scorched, burned, slack salted or not sufficiently smoked, shall be taken out as refuse. (R. S., sec. 6.)

SEC. 8. Each box of alewives or herrings so inspected, shall be branded on the top by the inspecting officer with the first letter of his christian name and the whole of his surname, the name of the town where it was inspected, with the abbreviation N. H., the quality, whether first sort or second sort, and the month and year in which they were so branded. (R. S., sec. 7.)

SEC. 9. All tierces, barrels and half barrels used for packing or containing pickled fish, shall be made of sound, well seasoned white oak, ash, red oak, spruce, pine or chestnut staves of rift timber, with heading of either of said kinds of wood well planed, sound and well seasoned, the heading, if of pine, to be free from sap; and shall be well hooped with at least three good and strong hoops on each bilge and three hoops on each chime; the barrel staves shall be twenty-eight inches in length and the heads seventeen inches between the chimes; the barrel shall contain not less than twenty-nine nor more than thirty gallons, the half barrels not less than fifteen gallons and the tierces not less than forty-five nor more than forty-six gallons; and each cask shall be made in a workmanlike manner, to hold pickle, and shall be branded on the side thereof near the bung, with the name of the maker or owner. (R. S., sec. 8.)

SEC. 10. All boxes used for packing and containing smoked alewives or herrings, shall be made of good sound boards, sawed and well seasoned, the sides, top and bottom of not less than half inch boards, and the ends of not less than three quarter inch boards, securely nailed with wrought or cut nails, and shall be seventeen inches in length, eleven inches in breadth and six inches in depth in the clear inside. (R. S., sec. 9.)

SEC. 11. Every person having fish for packing or pickling either in bulk, casks or boxes to the amount of twenty barrels or forty boxes in one season, shall furnish the inspector or one of his deputies with a branding iron containing the first letter of the owner's christian name and the whole of his surname, and the inspecting officer shall cause such name to be fairly branded on the head of every cask and on one end of every box of fish inspected for such person; if he shall refuse or neglect to furnish such brand, he shall forfeit three dollars for such neglect or refusal. (R. S., sec. 10.)

SEC. 12. All small fish which are usually packed whole with dry salt, shall be put in good casks of the size and materials above required for pickled fish, and shall be packed close, edgewise in the cask and well salted; the casks shall be filled full with the fish and salt, putting in no more salt than is necessary for the preservation of the fish; and the inspecting officer shall brand each cask with the name of the fish and the quality thereof, whether first sort or second sort, as in the case of smoked fish aforesaid. (R. S., sec. 11.)

SEC. 13. The inspector shall make return to the governor annually on or before the first Wednesday of June, of all the fish of every kind, whether in casks or boxes which have been inspected by him or his deputies during the year preceding, and each deputy shall seasonably furnish said inspector with a return of all the tierces, barrels, half barrels and boxes by him inspected and branded since his last return. (R. S., sec. 12.)

SEC. 14. The fees for inspection of and branding each cask or box of fish as provided by this chapter, shall be for each tierce fourteen cents, for each barrel nine cents, for each half barrel five cents, for each smaller cask or box three cents; for nailing each cask or box one cent, exclusive of the labor of packing and coopering; and twenty-five cents for each certificate thereof given; and the general inspector shall have and receive from his deputies the sum of four cents for each and every tierce, and one cent for each barrel or box, and one half cent for each half barrel or smaller quantity so inspected and branded by any of his deputies. (Laws of 1847, chap. 498, sec. 1.)

SEC. 15. These charges shall be paid by the owner or person employing the inspecting officer, and may by such person be recovered of the subsequent purchaser or exporter, in addition to the purchase or cost of the fish. (R. S., sec. 14.)

SEC. 16. No pickled fish or smoked alewives or herrings shall