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17. Whenever any uninspected salted fish shall be brought to
the city of Baltimore, the owner, owners, or his or their agents
shall, within forty-eight hours after the landing of the same,
deliver to the inspector a written report containing the number
and kinds of casks of fish, and the place or places where they
may be deposited, so that the same may be inspected, under the
penalty of one dollar for each cask inspected and neglected to
be reported.

18. The inspector shall see that all salted fish so 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
sweet pickle in the barrel, and sufficient salt to preserve the fish
therein contained, shall be branded shad, or other fish, as the
case may be, number one; those which are not so good, though
sound and free from taint, shall be branded number two, and
such as are not sound, or are very materially tainted and
damaged, shall be condemned and marked a broad arrow in the
bilge of the barrel or other cask, as the case may be.

19. 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 ten cents for each cask in addition
to the usual inspection fee.

20. The inspector shall also, upon each cask inspected by
him brand his name, the word " Baltimore, " the name of the
month and the year in which inspected, and the word "spring; "
provided, he believes the fish contained in such cask were caught
in the spring of the year in which inspected.

21. 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