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What Herrings, &c. and in what Barrels.
&c. entitled to Bounty.
Directions for branding, &c. Barrels to entitle to Bounty.
Barrels on which Bounty paid to be produced and branded.
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XX. And be it further enacted, That the Bounties hereby granted per Barrel on Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, shall not be paid or allowed for any Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel which shall not have been taken in the Irish Fishery, or for any Herrings which shall be of bad or indifferent Quality, or for any broken Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, or for any Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel which shall not be in all respects properly cured and packed, or of which the Barrel shall not contain of Fish, exclusive of the Weight of Salt and Brine, Two hundred and twenty four Pounds Weight, except Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel intended to be exported to any Place out of Europe, which shall and are hereby required to be repacked with Great Salt, the Barrel of which Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel shall contain Two hundred and twelve Pounds Weight of Net Fish; nor for any Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel which shall be contained in any Barrel not of sufficient Strength, or not containing Thirty two Gallons English Wine Measure, or on which the Name of the Curer thereof, and the Name of the Port or Place where, and the Year when the same were cured, shall not be branded with an hot Iron in large, legible, conspicuous and permanent Characters, or on which such Mark or Marks, Character or Characters, shall not have been set at the Fishery, or shall not remain thereon distinctly legible, denoting the Day on which the same were cured; nor for any Barrel of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel on which, at the time of its being produced to the proper Officer of the Fishery, in order to be branded with a Mark or Character to denote that the Curer thereof is entitled to the Bounties per Barrel hereby given according to the Directions of this Act, any Mark or Character shall be found to have been branded theretofore, pursuant to the Provisions of any former Act, nor until a Mark or Character to denote that the Curer thereof is entitled to the Bounty hereby given, shall be branded thereon by order and in the presence of the proper Officer of the Fishery, after the same shall have been produced to and inspected by such Officer according to the Directions of this Act; and that the Bounties per Barrel hereby granted shall not be paid or allowed for or in respect of any Barrel or Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, unless the same shall be produced to the proper Officer of the said Fishery, and branded in his presence in manner by this Act directed, at such Port or Place as is hereinafter directed respectively, and no other; that is to say, if the said Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel were cured on Shore, then the said Barrel or Barrels of Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel shall be so produced, and branded at such Port or Place as shall have been appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries; or if the said Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel were cured in any Vessel or Boat fitted out for the Irish Fishery, and were brought from the said Fishery in the same or in any other Vessel, according to the Regulations of this Act, then the Barrel or Barrels of the said Herrings, Pilchards and Mackerel, shall be so produced and branded as aforesaid at the Port or Place to which the same shall have been so brought from the said Fishery.
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