sums shall be paid by the shipper. The inspector shall receive from his deputy four cents for each tierce, three cents for each barrel, and two cents for each half barrel of beef or pork inspected or branded by him. The payment of the fees of inspection of any beef or pork shall, if required, be secured to the inspector or deputy before the same is branded.

SEC. 17. If the inspector or his deputy shall be guilty of any neglect or fraud in inspecting any beef or pork, contrary to the true intent of this chapter, or shall brand any cask not actually by him inspected, he shall forfeit ten dollars for each cask in respect to which such offence is committed.

SEC. 18. If any person shall intermix, take out or shift any beef or pork from any cask legally inspected or branded, or put into the same any other beef or pork for exportation, contrary to the intent of this chapter, he shall forfeit for each offence twenty dollars.

SEC. 19. No salted beef or pork shall be exported from this State, unless the master or owner of the vessel in which the same shall be exported, shall produce to the collector, or some other officer authorized by the laws of the United States to clear vessels out, a certificate from the inspector or his deputy, that the same has been inspected and branded according to law; and each certificate shall express the number of tierces, barrels and half barrels of beef or pork of each sort.

SEC. 20. Such master or owner, on producing said certificate, shall take and subscribe the following oath before the clearance officer aforesaid:

"I, A. B., of do swear that according to the best of my knowledge and belief, the certificate hereunto annexed, contains the whole quantity of salted beef and pork on board the master, and that no salted beef or pork is shipped on board said vessel for the ship's company, on freight or on cargo, but what is inspected and branded according to the laws of this State. So help me God."

SEC. 21. The inspector or his deputy shall receive for such certificate twenty-five cents for a quantity not exceeding one hundred tierces, barrels or half barrels of beef or pork; fifty cents if the quantity exceeds one hundred and is less than two hundred; and one dollar if it exceeds two hundred tierces, barrels or half barrels, and he shall give such certificate on payment of said fees, whenever requested so to do.

SEC. 22. If any person shall export or ship for exportation from this State any salted beef or pork not inspected and branded according to law, every such exporter or shipper shall forfeit six dollars, and the master of each vessel having on board such uninspected beef or pork shall forfeit two dollars for each cask so shipped or exported.

SEC. 23. Any justice on complaint filed that any beef or pork is so shipped, may issue his warrant directed to any proper officer

requiring him to seize and secure the same for trial, or any inspector or deputy may make such seizure without warrant.

SEC. 24. The complainant or the person making the seizure, shall as soon as may be file an information or libel thereon in some court proper to try the same, in the manner provided in the twenty-fifth title of the revised statutes.

SEC. 25. All the provisions, penalties, regulations and requirements contained in the foregoing sections, shall extend to all beef or pork transported or intended to be transported coastwise from any port or place in this State to any of the United States, or shipped on board any vessel for any purpose whatever.

SEC. 26. The selectmen of every town where beef cattle are sold for the purpose of market or barrelling, shall appoint one suitable person or more, who shall be conveniently situated in such town and not dealers in cattle, to be weighers of beef, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of said office.

SEC. 27. All beef sold as aforesaid shall be weighed by such sworn weigher, and a certificate of the weight of all the beef, hide and tallow of each head of cattle, unless otherwise requested by the seller, in the form following, shall be signed by such weigher and delivered to the seller on payment of the fees therefor:

FORM OF CERTIFICATE.

This certifies that I have fairly and properly weighed the cattle

SEC. 28. The weigher shall receive for the first six head of cattle weighed, seventeen cents per head; for the second six head weighed, twelve and a half cents per head; for all over twelve and under twenty head, eight cents per head; and for all over twenty head, five cents per head; which shall be paid by the buyer of such cattle, and twelve and a half cents for each certificate, which shall be paid by the seller.

SEC. 29. If any butcher or purchaser of beef cattle intended for market or barreling, shall cause any such beef cattle to be weighed contrary to the intent of this chapter, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered by action of debt, one half to the use of the prosecutor and the other half to the use of the county; but nothing herein contained shall prevent any

person from buying or selling cattle on the hoof, or from determining the weight of such cattle in any mode agreed on by the parties.

SECTION 1. The inspector or some deputy shall inspect and prove all butter and lard in casks, firkins or kegs that shall be intended for exportation, and no person shall ship any of these articles for exportation before the same shall have been inspected.

SEC. 2. The inspector or his deputies shall examine the casks, kegs or firkins containing butter or lard intended for exportation, and with a hollow iron searcher shall perforate the contents of said casks, kegs or firkins, diagonally from one head to the other, and thereby draw out so much of the article as shall determine the quality of the whole; he shall see that such, butter has been preserved with a due proportion of good fine salt, and that each article is sweet and in all respects fit to be exported to any foreign market without danger of spoiling; and the butter or lard so drawn out shall be returned thereto forthwith.

SEC. 3. Each cask, keg or firkin of butter or lard which, according to the best judgment of the inspector, appears to be good and fit to be exported as aforesaid, shall be branded in plain, legible letters with the words butter, or lard, and first, or second, or third, according to the article and quality; and all other kinds with the word refuse; each cask, keg or firkin so inspected shall also be branded with the abbreviation N. H., the name of the town where it is inspected, and the initial letter of the christian name and the whole of the surname of the inspector.

SEC. 4. Every cask, keg or firkin in which butter or lard shall be packed for exportation, shall be made of sound, well seasoned white oak or white ash staves and heading, full bound, and either fifteen inches in length and ten and a half inches diameter in the head, twelve and a half inches in length and eight and a half inches diameter in the head, twelve inches in length and seven and a half inches diameter in the head, or ten inches in length and six inches diameter in the head.

SEC. 5. Each cask, keg or firkin, before any butter or lard shall be packed therein, shall be filled with a strong brine which shall remain therein three days; and as soon as the brine is emptied from the cask, keg or firkin, it shall be weighed by the owner of the butter or lard to be packed therein, who shall with a marking iron mark on one of the heads thereof the full weight of such cask, keg or firkin, and shall brand thereon the initial letter of his christian name and the whole of his surname; and if he shall falsely mark the same, he shall forfeit three dollars for each offence.

SEC. 6. The inspector or any deputy for his services in inspecting, weighing, branding and delivering to the owner an invoice or weigh note under his hand of the weight of each cask, keg or firkin so inspected, shall receive seven cents for each cask, keg or firkin, to be paid by the purchaser of the same before the delivery of such certificate.

SEC. 7. No butter or lard shall be exported from this State, unless the master or owner of the vessel produces to the collector or other officer authorized by law to clear vessels out, a certificate from the inspector or some deputy that the same has been inspected, marked and branded according to law; each certificate shall express the number of casks and their weight.

SEC. 8. The master or owner, on producing said certificate, shall take and subscribe the following oath before such officer: "I, A. B., of , do swear that according to the best of my knowledge and belief, the certificate hereto annexed, contains the whole quantity of butter (or lard, as the case may be,) on board , master, and that no butter (or lard, as the case may be,) is shipped on board said vessel for the ship's company, on freight or on cargo, but what is inspected, marked and branded according to the laws of this State. So help me God."

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SEC. 9. The inspector or his deputy shall receive thirty cents for each certificate so given, and shall give the same when required. SEC. 10. If any person shall export or ship for exportation from this State any butter or lard not inspected, marked and branded as required by this chapter, such exporter or shipper shall forfeit one dollar and the master of the vessel shall forfeit fifty cents for every cask, keg or firkin of butter or lard uninspected, shipped or exported as aforesaid.

SEC. 11. Any justice of the peace, upon information filed that any butter or lard not inspected as aforesaid is put on board any

vessel for exportation shall issue his warrant directed to the sheriff, his deputy or some constable, requiring such officers to seize such butter or lard and to secure the same for trial.

SEC. 12. The inspector or any deputy having information of any butter or lard being laden in any port or place in this State for exportation, not being in conformity to the provisions of this chapter, may make seizure thereof forthwith, or file a libel or information there for in any court proper to try the same; and upon trial of the butter or lard so seized, it shall be condemned if a breach of this chapter is proved, and shall be forfeited to the use of the officer seizing and prosecuting for the same.

SEC. 13. If the inspector or any deputy, on application made for the examination of any butter or lard as aforesaid, shall unreasonably refuse, neglect or delay for the space of three hours after such application to proceed to such examination and inspection, the inspector so refusing, neglecting or delaying shall forfeit for each offence two dollars.

SEC. 14. If any person shall counterfeit any brand belonging to or proper to be used by the inspector or his deputy, or shall impress or brand any cask, keg or firkin of butter or lard with any brand of such inspector or with any counterfeit brand as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for each offence ten dollars.

SEC. 15. If any person shall empty any cask, keg or firkin of butter or lard inspected or branded as aforesaid, and put in any other butter or lard for sale or exportation, without first cutting out such brands and marks, he shall forfeit for each cask, keg or firkin ten dollars.

SEC. 16. The inspector shall receive from each deputy two cents for each cask, keg or firkin inspected and branded by such deputy according to this chapter.