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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

may discharge any cooper who shall refuse, fiU or
neglect to perform his duties in a workmanlike or
satisfactory manner.

Forfeiture.

298. If any cooper shall refuse to leave any
casks aforesaid, after having received his discharge
as aforesaid, and shall persist in working thereof
he shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars,

Uninspected
salted fish.

299. Whenever any uninspected salted fish shall
be brought to the qity 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, sop that the
same may be inspected, nnder the penalty of one
dollar for each cask inspected and neglected to be
reported.

How 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
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 num-
ber two, and such as are not sound, or are very
materially tainted and damaged, shall be con-
demned and marked a broad arrow in the bilge of
the barrel or other cask, as the case may be.

Superior
quality.

301. When the Inspector shall, upon examina-
tion, 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 eaeh cask in addition to
the usual inspection fee.

Brand his
name, &c.

302. The Inspector shall also, upon each, cask
inspected by him brand his name, the word Balti-
more, the name the of month and the year in which
inspected, and the word "spring;" provided, he be-