| 1817.
CHAP. 114. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
which said three persons, after having taken an oath of office as reviewers,
shall carefully view and examine the same, and if they, or
any two of them, shall declare the same to be sound or merchantable,
then and in such case the said inspector shall erase the broad
arrow, and put such brand on the cask containing said fish, as
they, or any two of them, may adjudge and determine; and the
corporation shall be allowed six cents per barrel for storage, if
stored; and if upon an appeal and review as aforesaid, the judgment
of the inspector shall be confirmed, the person appealing shall
pay the expense of such storage, and shall also pay the same if an
appeal shall not be prosecuted. |
No fish to be exported
without being
inspected. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no pickled fish
shall be exported
from this state, in casks, by water, unless the master or owner of
the vessel shall produce to the collector, or other officer authorised
by the United States to clear out vessels, a certificate from the inspector,
or his deputy, that the same has been inspected, packed
and branded, according to the directions of this act (a); and the
certificate shall express the number of barrels, half barrels and tierces
thus shipped, the kind and quality of the fish they contain, with
the name of the master or owner, and the name of the vessel in
which such fish are received for exportation (b); and every such master
or owner shall take and subscribe the following oath, or affirmation,
as the case may be, before the officer authorised as aforesaid;
" I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, according to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the certificate hereunto annexed contains the whole
quantity of pickled and barrelled fish on board the _____, _____ master,
and that no fish is shipped on board said vessel for the ship's
company, or on freight or cargo, but what is inspected and branded
according to the law of this state; so help me God."
(a) By ch. 170, this provision
is not to extend to persons sending fish from the
fisheries in Potomac to Virginia, or Columbia.
(b) By 1818, ch. 99, one cent and an half to be
paid by the master or owner for
every barrel, half barrel, or tierce of fish, mentioned in the certificate. |
Penalty for so
doing. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any master
of a vessel, or other
person, shall put or receive on board any vessel, or other carriage
of conveyance, to transport the same from this state, any pickled
or salted fish, packed in casks which are not inspected and branded
in manner by this act prescribed, he, she or they, on conviction,
shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty
dollars, for each and every barrel, half barrel or tierce, of such
uninspected fish. |
Inspectors not to
purchase fish except
for family
use. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said inspector,
or his deputy,
shall not purchase directly or indirectly, any salted fish by them, or
either of them respectively condemned, or any fish whatever other
than for their family's use; nor shall they, or either of them, directly
or indirectly, be concerned in making, vending or furnishing,
any cask or casks, for the purpose of packing, repacking, or curing
any fish brought to, packed in, or exported from, the city or port
of Baltimore; nor shall they, or either of them, be concerned in
the cooperage of any cask containing fish that shall be inspected in
said city; nor shall they, or either of them, vend or furnish any
salt for the curing or salting any fish that are or shall be inspected
in the city of Baltimore, under the penalty of forfeiting and paying
for every offence five dollars. |
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