The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... REVIVED ACT. 5th William 4th--Chapter 43. An Act to regulate the inspection of Dry and Pickled Fish for home consumption and for exportation. Section. Section. 1. Tierces, &c, for packing, what to be 8. When Inspectors may employ assistants, made of, and what to contain. and how to be paia. 2. Inspectors hew appointed, &e.; Penalty 9. Justices when to issue warrants for for acting without qualification. breach of Act, &e. 3. Duties of Inspector; Penalty for selling, 10. Penalty for selling before inspection, dec. &c, when; Proviso. 11. Penalty how recovered. &c. 4. Fish, when may be sold without inspec-12. What persons exempt from provisions of tion here. Act. 5. Penalty for shipping, &c. uninspected 13. Re-inspection when may be, and proceed Fisn. ings thereon. C. Inspectors' Fees. 14. When Inspector liable to damages. 7. Penalty for branding what casks, &c. 15. Dry codfish of what qualities; Inspector's and for Inspector neglecting duty, &c. fee. 16. Limitation. Passed 7th March 1835. Be it enacted, Sfc.--1. From and after the passing of this Act, all tierces, barrels, and half barrels, in which pickled fish are packed for sale, either for exportation or home consumption, shall be made of sound well seasoned timber, free from sap, and constructed of staves of the thickness of not less than half an inch in the thinnest part if made of hard wood, and five eighths of an inch if made of soft wood, with heading well seasoned and planed, or shaved, and free from sap, and to be in all cases of split or rift wood; the casks to be fully bound or closely hooped for nine inches from the chimbs on the barrels, and in the same proportion on tierces and half barrels, the barrel staves to be twenty eight inches in length, and the heads to be seventeen inches between the...