CHAP. 50. Also for pork. 1821, 148, § 2. Manufacturer's brand. 1821, 148, § 2. Inspector's and owner's brands. 1821, 148, § 6. 1831, 511, § 6. Name of month SECT. 21. The pork barrels shall measure seventeen inches and one quarter between the chimes, and contain not less than thirty one gallons, nor more than thirty one gallons and one half; and be hooped in the same manner, as beef barrels. SECT. 22. All beef and pork barrels and half barrels, shall be branded on the bilge, with the manufacturer's name. SECT. 23. Every barrel and half barrel of pork and beef, packed or repacked for exportation, shall be branded with the initial letter or letters of the christian name, and the surname at length of the inspector, who shall have inspected the same, with the name of the town where, and the month and year in which inspected, and the actual weight in legible letters and figures, with the addition of the word, MAINE. Every barrel or half barrel of beef, marked extra mess, navy mess, number one, or prime, or of pork, marked extra clear, clear, bone middlings, or navy mess, shall be branded with the name of the person, for whom the same was packed. SECT. 24. If the name of the month, in which any beef or pork abridged, if, &c. shall be inspected, consist of more than one syllable, it may be abridged in branding. 1821, 148, § 7. Inspector to unless on per tion. brand no casks, sonal inspec1821, 148, § 8. Penalty for mis conduct in the 1821, 148, § 8, inspector. 10. Deputies limited to the town, or county, for which appoint ed. 1821, 148, § 9. None but in spector, or dep uty, to brand as such. 1821, 148, § 9. Branding under section 14. SECT. 25. Neither the inspector general, nor his deputy, shall brand any packages of beef or pork, other than those he has personally inspected, and has caused to be weighed and packed, as the law requires. SECT. 26. If any inspector or deputy shall brand any package, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section: or if, his fees being duly tendered or secured to him, as provided in the eighth section, he shall neglect and refuse to perform any duty, pertaining to his office; or if he shall be guilty of any neglect or fraud in the exercise of his office; he shall forfeit, for each offence, ten dollars. SECT. 27. No deputy inspector shall inspect or brand any cask of beef or pork, out of the town or county, for which he shall be appointed, under the penalty of fifty dollars. SECT. 28. If any person, other than the inspector general or his deputy, shall stamp or brand any cask of beef or pork, with the intent that the same shall pass for beef or pork, inspected and branded according to law, he shall forfeit twenty dollars for every cask, so unlawfully branded. SECT. 29. Whenever any beef shall be reserved for exportation 1821, 148, § 14. agreeably to the provisions of the fourteenth section, the hogshead or other package, containing the same when exported, shall be branded on one head with the name of the owner, and of the town where he resides, under the penalty of one dollar for each package, not branded. Certain parts of pork, not to be 1821, 143, § 15. branded at all. Penalty for in or pork, after SECT. 30. The feet, ears and faces of pork, when separated from the cheek part of the head, or any other pieces prohibited by this chapter, shall not be exported under the brand refuse, nor any other brand allowed for pork to be exported. SECT. 31. If any person shall intermix, take out, or shift any termixing beef beef or pork, out of any cask inspected or branded as required by inspection. this chapter, or shall put in any other beef or pork for sale or expor1821, 148, § 11. tation, with a fraudulent intent, he shall forfeit twenty dollars for each offence. When beef or or sold. 1824, 276, 1. 1831, 511, § 2. SECT. 32. No pork or beef, imported into this state in barrels, CHAP. 50. half barrels or other casks, which shall not bear thereon the marks of an inspection, shewing the quality and quantity thereof, and the pork imported, name of an inspector of some one of the United States, shall be may, or may not, be re-exported, shipped, or sold, or offered for sale in this state; and any person, shipping, selling or offering for sale, any such beef or pork, shall forfeit for every such barrel, half barrel or other cask, ten dollars. SECT. 33. Excepting as herein before particularly mentioned, of the inspecno salted beef, nor pork, shall be exported out of this state, unless tor's certificate the master or owner of the vessel produces to the collector or other of the United officer of the United States, granting a clearance, a certificate from States. the inspector general or his deputy, that the same has been inspected and branded, according to the directions of this act, and each certificate shall express the number of barrels and half barrels of beef or pork, of each sort. SECT. 34. The master or owner, on producing such certificate, Oath to be takshall take and subscribe the following oath, before the officer grant-owner. ing the clearance, namely: "I, A. B., master (or owner as the case may be) of the do swear, that according to the best of my knowledge and belief, the certificate, hereunto annexed, contains the whole quantity of salted beef (or pork as the case may be) on board the master; and that no salted beef, nor pork, is shipped on board the said vessel for the ship's company, on freight or cargo, but what is inspected and branded, according to the law of this state." to the collector 1821, 148, § 13. 1821, 148, § 13. spected beef, or SECT. 35. If any person shall export, or ship for exportation, Penalty for exout of this state, any salted beef or pork, not inspected and branded, porting uninas is directed by this chapter, every owner or shipper thereof, privy pork. to such offence, shall forfeit six dollars, and the master of every 1821, 148, § 16. vessel, having on board such uninspected beef or pork, two dollars, for every 1821, 148, § 16, Any justice of the peace on complaint being made How the same to him, of any such beef or pork being put on board any vessel in may be seized his county for exportation, may issue his warrant, directed to the 18. proper peace officer, requiring him to make seizure of the same, and the same shall be seized and secured for trial; or the inspector general or his deputy may, on the like information, make seizure thereof, and secure the same for trial. and condemn 18. SECT. 37. The said peace officer, or inspector general, or his And libeled deputy, thus having made seizure, shall, as soon as may be, file a ed. libel or information thereupon in any court proper to try the same; 1821, 148, § 16, and if upon trial of such beef or pork, so seized, it shall appear, that the same was thus shipped, against the provisions of this act, it shall be liable to condemnation and forfeiture, agreeably to the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty two; one half to the use of the state, and the other moiety to the use of the officer seizing and prosecuting for the same. SECT. 38. All the provisions of this chapter shall extend to all beef or pork, transported, or intended to be transported, coastwise, from any port or place in this state to any other state or country, or shipped on board any vessel, for any purpose whatever. Extent of the provisions of 1821, 148, § 19. this chapter. SECT. 39. No person shall sell clear pork by the barrel, unless Penalty for sel ling clear pork, CHAP. 50. the same shall have been inspected in this or some other of the United States, or unless by mutual agreement between the buyer and seller; under the penalty of not less than ten, nor more than twenty dollars, per barrel. by the barrel, unless inspected, &c. 1824, 276, § 3. Inspection in another state, sufficient. 1824, 276, § 1. Recovery of fines and for feitures. SECT. 40. All beef and pork, or other salted provisions, that have been inspected in any other of the United States, and duly marked or branded, pursuant to the laws of such state, for exportation, may be sold in this state, or may be re-exported, without being subject to re-inspection. SECT. 41. All the foregoing fines and forfeitures, where other provision for their recovery is not expressed, shall be recovered in 1821, 148, § 17. an action of debt, or by complaint, in any court competent to try such action of debt; one half to the use of the town wherein the offence may have been committed, and the other half to the prose Annual returns and his depu ties. cutor. SECT. 42. Every deputy inspector shall make an annual return of the inspector to the inspector general, of the number of barrels and half barrels of beef and pork, inspected by him; and the inspector general, in 1821, 148, § 20. the month of January, annually, shall make a return into the office of the secretary of state, of the whole number of barrels and half barrels, inspected by him and his deputies, under the provisions of this chapter, the preceding year, under each of the respective brands used by them; designating in the return the different sorts and places where inspected. The said returns shall be made up to the first day of January, in each year. Inspector may administer oaths. SECT. 43. The inspector general may administer the several oaths, required of his deputies, or of others, by this chapter, per1821, 148, § 20. taining to the business of his office. How beef and Appointment of weighers of beef. SECT. 44. No beef nor pork shall be weighed by the owners or keepers of any slaughter houses, stores or warehouses, or by persons under their control in the transaction of their business, in any greater quantity than fifty pounds, unless in scales and with weights, or by the vibrating steelyard, invented by Benjamin Dearborn, or the vibrating steelyard, invented or improved by Samuel Hills, sealed according to law; and any such owner, keeper or other person, who shall otherwise weigh any beef or pork, exceeding fifty pounds, at any one time, shall forfeit ten dollars; to be recovered and to be appropriated, as provided in the forty first section. SECT. 45. The selectmen of every town, the mayor and aldermen of each city, and the assessors of every plantation, where beef 1821, 148, § 22. cattle are sold for immediate consumption, or for barreling, shall appoint one or more suitable persons, not dealers in cattle, to be weigher or weighers of beef, who shall be duly sworn. Form of weigher's certificate. SECT. 46. All beef, sold as aforesaid, shall be weighed by the 1821, 148, § 23. sworn weighers, and certificates of the weight of all the beef, hide and tallow of each head of cattle, shall be signed by the said weighers, and delivered to the seller thereof, in the form following, viz : "This certifies, that I have duly weighed the cattle, bought by of from , day of 18-: of this out weighing, SECT. 47. Any person, who shall purchase beef cattle, for Penalty for purmarketing or exportation, not weighed pursuant to the foregoing chasing withprovisions, other than live cattle, and excepting, when the weight unless agreed. or mode of weighing shall be agreed upon expressly by the buyer 1821, 148, § 24. and seller, shall forfeit thirty dollars for each offence; to be recovered, and to be appropriated, as provided in the forty first section. SECT. 48. The inspector general and his deputies, either by Hides to be themselves, or by other persons by them appointed, and who shall weighed and be duly sworn, shall weigh all hides taken from cattle, slaughtered 1832, 18, § 4. for barreling, making reasonable deductions for tare and drainage; and they shall give a certificate, specifying the gross weight and the deductions, made as aforesaid. SECT. 49. certified. tinue in office. The inspector general and his deputies shall continue Inspector and to hold their offices, and exercise the duties thereof, notwithstanding deputies to conthe provisions of this chapter, during the term fixed for their respective appointments, or until removed. CHAPTER 51. OF LIME AND LIME CASKS. SECT. 1. Inspectors to continue in office. SECT. 10. Casks to be branded with the SECTION 1. The several inspectors of lime and lime casks, now Inspectors to in office in this state, shall continue in office, according to the tenor continue in ofof their respective appointments. SECT. 2. Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the office of inspector in any town, it shall be the duty of the governor, with advice of the council, to supply such vacancy; and there shall be but one inspector in any town. fice. ments. fice. SECT. 3. Each inspector shall be a citizen of, and resident in, Qualifications the town, in which he is inspector; and shall hold his office for the and term of ofterm of four years, unless sooner removed by the governor and 1839, 403, § 3. council. СНАР. 51. Oath and bond. 1839, 403, § 3. Amount of bonds in differ 1839, 403, § 3. ent towns. Of deputy inspectors. 1839, 403, § 3. Inspector's du ties. 1839, 403, § 4. Penalties for his misconduct 1839, 403, § 4. Quality of lime for sale, or exportation. SECT. 4. Each inspector, before entering on the duties of his Office, shall be duly sworn; and give bond with sufficient sureties, to the treasurer of the county, in which he resides, for the faithful performance of his duty, in the respective sums mentioned in the following section. SECT. 5. The inspector in, and for, the town of Thomaston, in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The inspectors in, and for, the towns of Warren and Camden, in the sum of five thousand dollars each; and the inspectors of each other town, in the sum of two thousand dollars; each of which bonds shall be approved by the county commissioners, in and for the county, in which the town is situated. SECT. 6. Each inspector, so qualified, shall have power to appoint, in the town where he resides, as many deputy inspectors, as may be necessary, for whose fidelity he shall be answerable; and he shall take from each of them a bond to himself, with sufficient sureties in the sum of one thousand dollars; and each of them shall also be duly sworn. SECT. 7. It shall be the duty of each inspector by himself or his deputy, to inspect all lime manufactured in the town, where he resides, at the time, the same shall be filled into casks, at the kiln, where it is burnt; and to inspect the casks, into which the same shall be put, and to see that the lime and casks do, in all respects, conform to the provisions of this chapter; and that the casks are well filled with such lime, and to brand each cask, when so filled, [and] on one of the heads thereof, with the name of the [town], where the lime was burnt, and the first letter of the christian name, and the surname at length of the inspector or deputy, with the word, inspected. SECT. 8. If any such inspector, or deputy inspector, shall so brand any lime cask, the contents of which he has not inspected, or shall brand any such cask, which, or the contents of which, do not, in all respects, conform to the provisions of this chapter, or shall permit any other person to use his brands in violation, or evasion thereof, every such inspector, or deputy inspector, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for every cask, so illegally branded by him or with his brands; and shall also be liable to pay to any person, injured by such neglect or misdoings, such damages as he may have sustained thereby and the action for the recovery of such damages, when the misdoings were on the part of the deputy, may be brought against him, or the inspector, who appointed him. SECT. 9. No lime, manufactured in this state, shall be sold, exposed to sale, or shipped on board any vessel, in casks, but such Kind of casks. only as shall be well burnt and pure, and contained in good and 1839, 403, § 1. sufficient casks, made of sound and seasoned staves and heading, with at least ten good and strong hoops on each cask well driven, and secured with nails, and duly inspected; the staves of said casks to be made of sawed or rift timber, and not less than thirty inches in length, and not less than one half an inch thick on the thinnest edge; and each of the heads to be not less than three fourths of an inch thick, and well crozed in; and each hoop to be not less than one inch wide, in the narrowest part; and each cask to be |