Beef and Pork. ARTICLE VI. BEEF AND PORK. SECTION 90. Barrels and tierces, how made. 91. Barrels in Suffolk, Kings and Queens counties. 92. Qualities of pork. $$ 90-93 § 90. Barrels and tierces, how made.-All barrels in which any pork or beef is repacked, shall be of good, seasoned white oak or white ash staves and heading, free from every defect; and each barrel shall contain two hundred pounds of beef or pork. The barrel shall measure seventeen and one-half inches between the chimes, and be twenty-eight inches long, and hooped with twelve good, hickory, white oak or other substantial hoops. If made of ash staves, it shall be hooped with at least fourteen hoops. The staves and heads shall be of good thick stuff, the heads not less than three-quarters of an inch thick; and each stave, on each edge, at the bilge, shall not be less than one-half an inch thick, when finished. The hoops shall be well set and drove, and the barrels branded on the bilge with at least the initial letters of the cooper's name. The half barrel shall contain not less than fifteen, nor more than sixteen gallons, and be made in proportion to and of like materials as a whole barrel, and shall contain one-half the quantity of beef or pork of the whole barrel. The tierce shall be made in proportion to and of like materials as a barrel, and shall contain three hundred pounds of beef or pork. § 91. Barrels in Suffolk, Kings and Queens counties.-All beef and pork which is repacked in and exported from the counties of Suffolk, Kings and Queens, may be packed in barrels as nearly as straight as may be, made of good, seasoned red oak. staves and heading of the growth of such counties respectively, free from sap and every defect and made otherwise as above directed. § 92. Qualities of pork.-Each barrel of pork shall be branded on one of its heads by its name, and contain either "mess pork," "prime pork," or "cargo pork." "Mess pork" consists of the sides of good, fat hogs, exclusive of all other pieces. “Prime pork" is pork of which there is in a barrel not more than three shoulders, the legs being cut off at the knee joint, not more than twenty-four pounds of heads which have the ears and snouts cut off, the snouts cut off to the opening of the jaws, and the brains and bloody grizzle taken out of the heads, and the rest made up of side pieces, neck and tail pieces. "Cargo pork" is pork of which there is not in a barrel more than thirty pounds of head and four shoulders, and it shall be otherwise merchantable pork. "Side pork" so repacked, shall be cut from the back bone to the belly, in pieces about five inches wide, and which in weight are not under four pounds; otherwise, the barrels containing the same shall not be branded merchantable pork. ARTICLE VII. HOPS AND HAY. SECTION 100. Bales of hops to be marked. 101. Adulteration of hops prohibited; counterfeiting marks. 103. Bales of hay to be marked. 104. Prohibition against the adulteration of hay. 105. Weight to be marked on bale. § 100. Bales of hops to be marked. Every person putting up hops for sale or exportation shall mark or stamp on each bale or other package containing the same, in a legible manner, the initial letter of his christian name, and his surname at full length, and the gross weight of such bale or package, before its removal from the place where the hops are put up. A person violating this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five dollars for each such violation. § 101. Adulteration of hops prohibited; counterfeiting marks. -No person shall intermix with any hops any foreign or improper substance, or in any manner adulterate their quality. No person shall counterfeit the marks on any bale or package of hops, or empty any bale or package of hops so marked, for the purpose of putting therein other hops for sale or exportation, without first erasing such marks. A person violating any provision of this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of one hundred dollars for each such violation. § 102. Standard weight of hop bales and tare thereon.-A bale of hops sold in this state shall not weigh less than one hun dred and seventy-five nor more than two hundred and ten pounds. The tare to be deducted is five pounds. The standard weight of sacking for baling is not less than twenty-four nor more than thirty ounces for each yard; five yards thereof is the maximum quantity to be used for each bale, and any excess in the weight of such sacking or other extraneous matter used in baling may be deducted as additional tare. § 103. Bales of hay to be marked.-Every person who puts up and presses any bundle of hay for market shall mark or brand, in a legible manner, the initials of his name or the initial letter of his Christian name, and his surname at full length, and the name of the town in which he resides, on some board or wood attached to such bundle of hay. Such hay may be sold with or without deduction for tare, and by the weight as marked, or any other standard weight as agreed between seller and buyer. A person violating this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five dollars for each such violation. § 104. Prohibition against the adulteration of hay.—No person shall put or conceal in any such bundle of hay any wet or damaged hay, or other materials, or hay of any inferior quality to that which plainly appears upon the outside of such bundle. A person violating this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five dollars for each such violation. § 105. Weight to be marked on bale.-The gross weight shall be plainly marked on each bale of hay or straw sold or offered for sale in this state; and no baled hay or straw shall be so sold or offered for sale which weighs less than such gross weight after deducting five pounds from such bale for shrinkage. And no baled hay or straw shall be so sold or offered for sale with more than twenty pounds of wood to the bale, the weight of which is two hundred pounds or upward, or more than ten pounds of wood for bales weighing less than two hundred pounds. A person violating any provision of this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five dollars for each such viola. tion. §§ 110-111 Article VIII. ARTICLE VIII. LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. SECTION 110. Laws repealed. 111. When to take effect. 10. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. § 11. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. |