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Officers to examine Barrels of Herrings, &c. for Exportation, and may weigh same.
Herrings, &c. intended for Exportation being found of bad Quality or not properly cured, &c. forfeited.
How Disputes in respect thereof settled.
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XXVIII. And in order to prevent any Frauds in the Exportation of Herrings, Pilchards or Mackerel, be it further enacted, That every Officer of the Fishery to whom any Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards or Mackerel shall be produced or tendered, in order to be shipped for Exportation, shall examine the same, and inspect and weigh the Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel in such and so many of the Barrels as he shall think proper, in order to ascertain whether the said Barrel or Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, be in all respects such as may lawfully be exported, or shipped to be exported to the Port or Place for which the same shall be entered: Provided always, that if any Herrings, Pilchards or Mackerel contained in any Barrel or Barrels, which shall be so marked with any Mark or Character to denote that the Curer thereof is or was entitled to the Bounties per Barrel as aforesaid, not being prohibited to be exported for any Cause other than, on due Examination, their being found to be of such Description as not to entitle the Curer thereof to the Bounties per Barrel under this Act, and not of such a Description as would make them liable to Forfeiture, in case they were produced by the Curer with intent to obtain the said Bounty, shall be tendered to any Officer of the Fishery to be shipped for Exportation, and such Officer shall deem such Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel to be of bad or indifferent Quality, or not properly cured or packed, or the Barrel or Barrels in which the same shall be contained not to be of sufficient Strength, and that for such Cause the same cannot be allowed to be exported or shipped for Exportation, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, the Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, or the Barrels containing the same, shall be forfeited; and if in the Event of Refusal to allow the Exportation for any of those Causes, the Proprietor shall not be satisfied with the Opinion of the Officer, the Matter in dispute shall be settled and determined in the same manner as is hereinbefore directed in the case of a like Dispute arising between the Curer of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, and the Officer of the Fishery to whom the same shall be produced in order to obtain the said Bounties.
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