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ors, whose duty shall be to survey oak and other hard wood used in ship-building, whether brought by land or water.

SEC. 16. In the survey of all boards, plank, joists and timber, the contents of the same in board measure shall be truly marked thereon in plain and durable numbers, and all other marks, if not correct, shall be erased; and in marking the contents of any lumber, the board measure marks commonly used in marking boards shall be used and no other.

SEC. 17. The merchantable lumber shall be marked thus A, and the refuse lumber shall be marked A, and shall be plainly and durably marked on each piece; deduction shall be made for splits not exceeding in any case one half the extent of the split.

SEC. 18. All boards, plank, joist and timber shall be received and sold according to the contents thereof, as fixed and marked under the provisions aforesaid; and all surveys shall be made under the inspection of the surveyor or by his deputies, by his directions; and application for the survey of lumber in said city shall be made by all persons requiring surveys, to the surveyor, who shall cause such surveys to be made.

SEC. 19. Fees for surveying and marking according to the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the purchaser, and shall be as follows, viz.:- for pine, spruce, hemlock and juniper boards, plank, joist and sawed timber, twenty-five cents per thousand feet, board measure: for mahogany, cedar, cherry tree timber, boards, plank and joists, fifty cents per thousand feet, board measure: for oak and other hard wood for ship-building, twenty-five cents per ton: for ash, maple, birch, and other hard wood, forty cents per thousand feet, board measure.

SEC. 20. There shall be paid to the surveyor, of the fees aforesaid, for his own use, three cents on every thousand feet of pine, spruce, hemlock and juniper boards, plank, joist, and sawed timber, four cents on every ton of oak and other ship timber, six cents on every thousand feet, board measure, of mahogany, cedar and other ornamental lumber, ash, maple, birch and other hard wood.

SEC. 21. No person within the city of Providence shall sell, purchase or take the delivery, whether purchased without the state or within it, or for their own personal use or otherwise, any boards, plank, joist or timber brought into said city, unless the same shall be surveyed, marked and numbered, conformably to the provisions of this chapter except such as are intended to be exported beyond sea, and are shipped for the purpose of such exportation within one year after the same shall have been sold and delivered to the person first purchasing, or receiving the same in said city.

SEC. 22. Any person importing or purchasing lumber for his own private use and benefit, to be used in building on his own or leased land, upon giving a certificate to that effect to the surveyor shall not be required to have the same surveyed and measured as aforesaid; but should he dispose of it in any other manner than is provided in this section he shall be liable to the same penalties as though said certificate had not been given.

SEC. 23. Any person purchasing lumber without the state and

transshipping the same through this state to any other state, shall not be required to have the same surveyed and measured.

SEC. 24. If any person shall sell, purchase, deliver, or take the delivery of any boards, plank, joist or timber, in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, he shall forfeit for all boards, plank, joist and timber so sold, purchased or delivered, one dollar per thousand feet, board measure, and the same for any less amount, one half thereof to the use of the state, and the other half to the use of the surveyor, who shall prosecute for all violations of this chapter that shall come to his knowledge.

SEC. 25. If any person shall wilfully cross, alter or deface any mark affixed to any lumber, by any deputy surveyor, he shall forfeit not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered by the surveyor, and to enure as provided in the next preceding section.

SEC. 26. If any person appointed to office under this chapter, or his deputy, shall connive at any fraud or deception in surveying, marking or numbering the contents of any boards, plank, joist or timber, he shall forfeit for each offence not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 27. If the surveyor or his deputies, on due notice and request, shall unreasonably neglect or refuse to perform the duties enjoined by this chapter, he shall forfeit for each offence not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 28. If any person shall be dissatisfied with the survey and admeasurement of any lumber purchased or sold by him, by any deputy or deputies appointed by the surveyor, he may require the surveyor, with one or more deputies, at the option of the surveyor to reinspect the same.

SEC. 29. If, upon such reinspection an error shall be found in the survey above the amount of five dollars, the deputy who surveyed the lumber shall receive no compensation for his services; and shall be liable to the forfeiture provided in the twenty-sixth section of this chapter; and the surveyor and his deputy or deputies shall receive for their compensation twenty-five cents per thousand feet, to be paid by the purchaser.

SEC. 30. If the surveyor on the reinspection shall find the lumber correctly surveyed and measured in the first instance, he shall receive for his compensation and that of his deputy or deputies, twelve cents per thousand feet, to be paid by the complainant.

SEC. 31. The expense of overhauling lumber for the purpose of reinspection, under the foregoing provisions, shall be paid by the complainant; and in all such cases of reinspection the compensation for the surveyor and his deputy or deputies, shall be equally divided between them.

SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the surveyor to make return to the city council of the city of Providence, on the first Monday in February annually, of all lumber surveyed by himself or his deputies; specifying the various kinds and qualities, and by whom surveyed, and the amount of all fees received by him and his deputies pursuant to this chapter. And it shall be the duty of the said city

council to cause said returns to be published in one of the newspapers published in said city.

SEC. 33. The city council of the city of Newport shall annually, in the month of February, elect one or more surveyors and measurers of boards, planks, timber, joist and scantling, removable at the pleasure of said city council, who shall each give bond, with two sureties, in the sum of one thousand dollars, to the city treasurer, for the faithful discharge of the duties of said office.

SEC. 34. Every surveyor and measurer of boards, planks, timber, joist and scantling, appointed by the town council of any town, or by the city council of the city of Newport, shall be subject to all the duties, provisions and penalties contained in this chapter.

SEC. 35. Each surveyor and measurer shall keep a true and faithful record of all surveys of lumber made by him, together with all figures made by him in taking an account of the same, and said record shall be open to the inspection of all persons.

SEC. 36. This chapter shall not be construed as requiring the survey or admeasurement of any lumber made in any town in this

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SECTION 1. All stone lime which shall be burnt in this state, shall be offered or exposed to sale in casks of the following dimensions, to wit: each cask shall be twenty-seven inches and three quarters of an inch in length between the heads, and the heads. eighteen inches in diameter, and of sufficient bulge to contain thirty-six gallons, and hooped with not less than eight good hoops; and each cask shall be well filled with lime.

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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. It shall be the duty of the inspector and of his deputies to 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. Any 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. Any 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.

SEC. 8. Any person who shall counterfeit the brand of any inspector or deputy inspector appointed as aforesaid, or shall imprint any cask of lime with his brand, without his consent first had and obtained in writing, 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.

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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.

SEC. 2. Every packer shall give bond to the town treasurer of the town in which he shall be appointed, in the sum of one thou

sand dollars, 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, herrings or other fish, shall be sorted, and one kind only be put into one cask.

SEC. 4. Each cask shall be well seasoned, and bound with twelve hoops; those for menhaden and herrings of the capacity to hold 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. Each cask being first searched, examined and approved by a packer, shall, when packed or repacked for exportation, be 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. Each 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.

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

SEC. 8. Any person who shall offer for sale in or attempt to export from this state any pickled fish which have not been approved by a sworn packer, or in casks which are not branded as aforesaid, shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence.

SEC. 9. Any 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-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. Any 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 sixteen 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 eight cents only, for unheading, inspecting, reheading, branding, nailing and giving

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