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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4

Salted fish to
be inspected.

299. 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.

How inspected
and branded.

300. 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 pre-
served 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 pre-
serve 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.

How branded
when of supe-
rior quality.

301. When the inspector shall, upon examination,
adjudge and determine any fish to be of a very supe-
rior 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 inspec-
tion fee.

What to be
branded.

302. The inspector shall also, upon each cask in-
spected by him brand his name, the word "Balti-
more," the name of the month and the year in which
inspected, and the word "spring;" provided, he be-
lieves the fish contained in such cask were caught in
the spring of the year in which inspected.