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305. The inspectors shall see that all fish offered for inspection
shall have been well struck with salt or pickle in the first
instance, and preserved sweet and free from rust, taint or
damage; and all such fish of a good and fat quality, with aweet
pickle in the barrels and sufficient salt to preserve them, shall be
branded herrings, (or other fish as the case maybe,) No. 1; those
which are not so good, though sound and free from taint, shall
be branded No. 2; or if mackerel, No. 2, or No. 3, in their dis-
cretion : and such as are not sound or very materially tainted and
damaged, shall be condemned and marked with a broad arrow in
the bilge of the barrel, half barrel or tierce, as the case may be.

306. When the inspector shall, upon examination, adjudge and
determine any fish to be of a very superior quality, and the
owner or owners shall furnish him with a branding iron with the
first letter of his Christian name and surname at full length, or
the name of the firm at full length, the inspector shall add the
word prime to No. 1, and also the brand of the owner, and shall
receive the sum of two cents for each cask in addition to the
usual inspection fee.

307. The inspectors shall also upon each cask inspected by
them brand their names, the word Baltimore, the name of the
month and the year in which inspected, and upon each barrel,
half barrel or tierce of herring, shad or mackerel, the word
spring; Provided, they believe the said mackerel was caught in
the spring of the year in which inspected.

308. If any person shall think himself aggrieved by the judg-
ment of the inspector, he may at his option sue his bond, or may
apply to the mayor of the city of Baltimore, who shall there-
upon issue his warrant directed to three disinterested persons
well skilled in the goodness, quality and well curing of salted
fish, to review and examine the same, which said three persons,
after having taken an oath of office as reviewers, shall care-
fully view and examine the same, and if they or any two of
them shall declare the same to be sound or merchantable,
the inspector shall erase the broad arrow and put such
brand on the cask containing the fish as the reviewers or ahy
two of them may determine, and the corporation shall be allowed
six cents a barrel for storage, if stored; and if upon such appeal
and review the judgment of the inspector shall be confirmed,
the person appealing shall pay such storage, and shall also pay
the same if the appeal be not prosecuted.