ner as is herein prescribed for branding beef, designating the different qualities or denominations herein described.

SEC. 13. Every cask in which mess beef, or in which clear or mess pork shall be packed, shall be made of good seasoned white oak or white ash staves, and heading not less than five eighths of an inch in thickness, free from sap and every defect; to be covered three fourths of the length with good hoops, leaving one fourth in the centre; the hoops to be well set and drawn together; but casks containing prime beef and cargo beef, or prime pork, may be hooped with only twelve hoops, which shall be well secured with not less than three pins on each bulge.

SEC. 14. On the head of every cask in which beef or pork is packed shall be branded the weight it contains, which shall be only even hundreds, with the first letter of the christian name and the surname at length of the inspector who has inspected the same, with the name of the town where it was inspected, and "Rhode Island," in legible letters not less than three fourths of an inch long.

SEC. 15. Two hundred pounds of beef shall be considered and taken as a barrel of beef; and two hundred pounds of pork shall be considered and taken as a barrel of pork.

SEC. 16. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any salted beef or pork in casks, before it shall have been inspected and branded as aforesaid, unless there shall be a special contract in relation to the kind and quality of the article sold, he shall forfeit twenty dollars for each cask.

SEC. 17. For each and every certificate given by the inspector, deputy inspector, or assistant, for beef or pork inspected, he shall receive twenty-five cents, to be paid by the person calling for the inspection; and they are severally required to give such certificate whenever requested.

any

SEC. 18. If any person shall knowingly intermix, take out, or shift beef or pork out of any cask inspected or branded as by this chapter is required, or put in any other beef or pork for sale, contrary to the intent hereof, he shall, for each and every offence, forfeit one hundred dollars.

SEC. 19. Whenever any inspector, surveyor, or packer shall be requested to cut, pack, or repack any beef or pork in any store, yard, or place, other than his customary store or yard, the owner or owners of such beef or pork shall, without delay, furnish all materials and conveniences necessary to perform the same, excepting the tools of such inspector, surveyor, or packer, who shall not be liable to any expense for the use of the store, yard or place wherein such beef or pork shall be deposited; and in case any inspector or packer shall in the discharge of his office use any steelyards or weights which shall not have been tried and sealed according to law, he shall for each offence forfeit twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 20. Every deputy or assistant who shall inspect or brand any cask of beef or pork out of the town or county for which he shall be appointed, shall forfeit one hundred dollars; and if any person other than the said inspector, his deputy or assistant, shall stamp or brand any cask of beef or pork in manner directed by this chapter, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each and every cask so unlawfully branded.

SEC. 21. The inspector shall have ten cents for every barrel inspected by him, and the deputy in each county shall have ten cents for each barrel of beef or pork inspected as aforesaid in the county whereof he shall be inspector; and each assistant inspector shall have

for his services in cutting, weighing, packing, salting, pickling, heading, and branding each barrel of beef or pork, fifty cents; and for performing the same exclusive of cutting, he shall receive for each barrel twenty-five cents, to be paid by the owner thereof.

SEC. 22. Every deputy inspector shall, on any special occasion, be authorized to send an assistant inspector from the town in which such assistant resides into an adjoining town, to perform the duties of his office in said town.

SEC. 23. If the inspector, or any deputy inspector or assistant, appointed by virtue of this chapter, shall be guilty of any neglect or fraud in inspecting any beef or pork contrary to the true intent or meaning of this chapter, or shall mark with their respective brands any cask containing beef or pork which has not been actually inspected, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each and every offence.

Act for inspec

tion in Providence not re

SEC. 24. This chapter shall not be construed to repeal or to affect an act entitled An act authorizing the city of Providence to elect an inspector of beef and pork for said city, passed June 29th, 1833, nor pealed. the inspection of beef and pork in said city: Provided, the inspection be conformable to this chapter.

SECTION 1. There may be annually elected by the town councils of the several towns, and by the city councils of Providence and Newport, an officer to be denominated an inspector of hides and leather, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties.

Town and city councils may elect annually, &c.

Duties of in

SEC. 2. Such inspectors shall examine and inspect all hides and leather which they may be called upon to inspect, within their respec- spectors. tive towns or cities, and stamp upon the hides or leather so inspected the quality thereof, as rated in the hides and leather trade, together with the name of the inspector and date of inspection.

SEC. 3. The fees of the inspector shall be at the rate of one dollar Fees of. per hour for each hour actually employed, to be paid by the person employing him: Provided, that not more than five hours shall be paid for by one employer for the same day.

SEC. 4. Every inspector, appointed under the provisions of this act, who shall wilfully stamp any hides or leather as of a grade above or below that at which it is properly ratable, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars, and be liable to an action at law for damages to the party injured thereby.

Penalty on, for wrongly stampleather.

ing hides or

Dimensions of lime casks.

Qualities of

lime, how to be designated and branded.

Inspector may appoint depu

ties.

Duties of in-
spector.
Fees of.

Penalty for selling, &c., casks not branded. Penalty for

branding false

ly.

SECTION 1. All stone lime which shall be burnt in this state shall be offered or exposed to sale in casks of sufficient dimensions, to contain thirty-one and one half gallons, and hooped with not less than eight good hoops; and each cask shall be well filled with lime.

SEC. 2. The various qualities of lime shall be designated by the following names, viz. : "jointa," "first quality," "second quality,” “refuse; and shall also be designated with the names of the present owners of the ledges of rock from which the same shall be burnt; and be so branded that the name of the owner of the ledge and the quality of the lime shall form one brand, and be made by one impression; which brand shall be used by the inspector or his deputies only. Each cask shall also be branded with the word "inspected," and with the initials of the name of the person branding the same.

SEC. 3. The inspector of lime may appoint one or more deputies, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their office.

SEC. 4. The inspector and his deputies shall see that the casks are of lawful size and properly filled and branded, as herein provided.

SEC. 5. The burner of lime shall pay the inspector or his deputy for inspecting and branding, filling not included, the sum of two cents for each and every cask he may inspect, and for filling the same, two cents in addition.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall offer for sale in, or export from, this state, any cask of stone lime burnt therein which shall not have been branded as required by this chapter, shall forfeit ten dollars.

SEC. 7. Every inspector or deputy inspector who shall brand any lime cask contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall forfeit five dollars for each cask so branded.

Penalty for SEC. 8. Every person who shall counterfeit the brand of any incounterfeiting spector or deputy inspector appointed as aforesaid, or shall imprint brand, refilling branded casks, any cask of lime with his brand, or shall fill any cask a second time which has before been filled and branded, without first causing the former brand to be cut out, shall forfeit one hundred dollars for every cask so branded or so filled.

&c.

SECTION 1. In every town in which pickled fish are packed up for sale or exportation from this state, the packers of such town shall see that the same have been properly pickled; that they are properly repacked in casks, in good shipping order, with good salt, sufficient in each cask to preserve such fish from damage to any foreign port.

Duties of packers of fish.

SEC. 2. Every packer shall give bond to the town treasurer of the Packers to give town in which he shall be appointed, in the sum of one thousand dol- bond. lars, with sufficient surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of such town treasurer, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. SEC. 3. Pickled fish, whether codfish, mackerel, menhaden, her- Casks to conrings, or other fish, shall be sorted, and one kind only be put into one cask.

tain one kind only.

SEC. 4. Every cask shall be well seasoned, and bound with twelve Dimensions of; hoops; those for menhaden and herrings of the capacity to hold how filled. twenty-eight gallons; and those for other fish of the capacity, if a barrel, to hold two hundred pounds, and if a half barrel, one hundred pounds weight of fish; each cask to be full, and the fish sound and well cured.

SEC. 5. Every cask being first searched, examined, and approved How to be by a packer, shall, when packed or repacked for exportation, be branded. branded legibly on one head with the kind of fish it contains, and the weight thereof; or the capacity of the cask, with the first letter of the christian and the whole of the surname of the packer, with the name of the town, and with the word "Rhode Island," in letters not less than three fourths of an inch long, to denote that the same is merchantable, and in good order for exportation.

SEC. 6. Every cask of pickled codfish and mackerel offered for sale or for exportation from this state, shall also be branded No. 1, No. 2, or No. 3, to denote the quality of such fish.

Numbers to denote quality

of fish.

Exception of

SEC. 7. Nothing in this chapter contained shall hinder any fisherman or owners of fish coming to this state from their fishing trips, fishermen, &c. from selling or reshipping their fish to any other of the United States, without being packed into barrels or half barrels.

SEC. 8. Every person who shall offer for sale in or attempt to ex- Penalty for port from this state, any pickled fish which have not been approved sale of fish not approved and by a sworn packer, or in casks which are not branded as aforesaid, branded. shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 9. Every person who shall shift any fish from any cask after the same has been branded by the packer, and shall offer to sell or export the same from this state, or shall brand any cask into which the same shall be shifted, or shall brand any cask with the branding

Penalty for al-
tering contents
of branded
cask, or imitat-

ing brand.

Penalty for fraud.

Fees of packers of fish.

iron of a packer, or with any iron made in imitation thereof, shall forfeit not less than thirty dollars, nor more than one hundred and sixty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 10. Every packer who shall be guilty of any fraud or neglect in packing any fish contrary to this chapter, or shall brand any cask not thoroughly examined according to the provisions thereof, shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 11. The packers of fish shall be paid for opening, assorting, inspecting, weighing, pickling, packing or repacking, heading up, nailing, and giving a certificate, if pickled codfish or mackerel, twenty cents for every barrel, and fifteen cents for every half barrel, by the owner thereof: Provided, that for all pickled codfish or mackerel which have been inspected in some one of the United States, and which shall not in the judgment of the packer require repacking, the said owner shall pay to the packer twenty cents only, for unheading, inspecting, reheading, branding, nailing, and giving a certificate thereof; and for all other except codfish and mackerel, the owner thereof shall pay the packer twenty-five cents for every cask.

SECTION

CHAPTER 103.

OF THE INSPECTION AND SURVEY OF LUMBER.

1. Surveyor of lumber for Provi-
dence, how and when elected;
term of office.

2. To give bond.

3. May appoint deputies.

4. Deputies to give bond, be sworn,
and be removable, when.

5. Returns of surveyor, when and
how made and published.

6. Surveyors may be elected in New-
port, when and how.

7. Surveyors and measurers subject to
all the duties, provisions, and
penalties of this chapter.

8. Surveyors to keep record.

9. All lumber delivered in this state
to be inspected.

10. Six sorts of soft pine boards; No.
one, No. two, No. three, No.
four, No. five, and No. six; de-
scription of each, and how each
to be marked.

11. Boards less than three fourths of
an inch thick, how surveyed and
measured.

12. Planks and joists, how surveyed
and measured.

13. Two sorts of boards, &c., of
Southern hard pine, spruce, &c.,