Title 21, Title 21 and Drugs

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as to prevent any fishermen 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.

Every person who shall offer for sale in or attempt to export from the state any pickled fish which have not been approved by a sworn packer, or in casks which are not branded as required in this chapter, shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.

Every person who shall shift any fish from any cask after the cask has been branded by the packer, and shall offer to sell or export the fish from this state, or shall brand any cask into which the fish shall be shifted, or shall brand any cask with the branding iron of a packer …

Every 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 of this chapter, shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.

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 ($0.20) for every barrel and fifteen cents ($0.15) for every half barrel by…

Every packer shall give bond to the city or town treasurer of the city or town in which the packer shall be appointed, in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), with sufficient surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the city or town treasurer, for the faithful performance o…

Pickled fish, whether codfish, mackerel, menhaden, herrings, or other fish, shall be sorted and one kind only be put into the same cask.

Every cask shall be well seasoned and bound with twelve (12) hoops. Casks for menhaden and herrings shall be of the capacity to hold twenty-eight gallons (28 gals.), and those for other fish of the capacity, if a barrel, to hold two hundred pounds (200 lbs.), and if a half barrel…

Every cask before being packed or repacked for exportation shall first be searched, examined, and approved by a packer; and shall, when packed or repacked for exportation, be branded legibly on one head with the kind of fish it contains and the weight of the fish or the capacity …

Every cask of pickled codfish offered for sale or for exportation from the state shall also be branded “No. 1,” or “No. 2,” or “No. 3,” to denote the quality of the fish.

There shall be five (5) qualities of mackerel. Mackerel of the best quality, not mutilated, measuring not less than fourteen inches (14") from the extremity of the head to the notch or fork of the tail, free from rust, taint, or damage, and that shall count not more than one hund…

Mackerel of the best quality, not mutilated, being not less than thirteen inches (13"), measured as provided in § 21-15-7, free from rust, taint, or damage, that shall count not more than two hundred (200) fish to the barrel, shall be branded “Number one.”

Mackerel being not less than eleven inches (11"), measured as provided in § 21-15-7, free from rust, taint, or damage, and that shall count not more than three hundred fifty (350) fish to the barrel, shall be branded “Number two.”