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Passed March
3, 1842.
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An act entitled, A further supplement to an art entitled, An
act to regulate the inspection of Salted Fish, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen, chap-
ter one hundred and fourteen.
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One chief in-
spector and 2
sub-inspec-
tors to be ap-
pointed
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That as soon as may be thereafter the passage of
this act, the governor shall and he is hereby authorized and
directed to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, and annually thereafter, on or before the first
day of March in each year, three inspectors of salted fish
in the city of Baltimore, one of whom shall be styled the
chief inspector, and the residue, sub-inspectors, who shall
be subject to the rules, regulations and laws that are now
in force and applicable to the inspection of fish in the said
city, except as is hereinafter otherwise provided.
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Bond to be
given
Manner in
which the
barrels shall
be made, and
the size of the
same
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That each inspector who may
be appointed by virtue of this act, shall enter into bond to
the state of Maryland with good and sufficient securities, to
be approved of and retained by the treasurer of the wes-
tern snore, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, con-
ditioned for the true and faithful discharge of his duties as
inspector, arising out of this or any other law of this state.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all barrels, half barrels
and tierces, which shall be made and used for the purpose
of packing or containing packed fish, shall be made of sound
well seasoned oak, ash, chesnut, pine or cyprus staves, free
from flaws and worm holes, of light timber, not less than
half an inch thick, with headings of the said kinds of wood,
not less than five eights of an inch thick, and sound and
well seasoned; the said heading to be well planed or shaved,
the barrels and tierces to be well hooped, with at least three
hoops on each bilge, and three hoops on each chine, all of
which shall be good hoops, of sufficient substance; the bar-
rel staves to be twenty eight inches in length, and the
heads to be sixteen and a half inches between the chines,
and to contain not less than twenty nine, nor more than thirty
one gallons, and the barrels, half barrels and tierces, shall
he made in a good and workmanlike manner, so as to hold
the pickle; the tierces to contain not less than forty five
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