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Examiners, when directed, to visit shops, &c., and seize false or deficient balances, weights, and measures.
Upon conviction false weights and measures to be destroyed.
And offender to forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Penalty on persons obstructing examiners, or refusing to produce balances, weights, or measures for examination.
No person to sell by any other than the standard weights and measures,
Not to apply to contracts made previous to commencement of Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 22 OF 1844.
Weights and Measures.
7. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the person or persons so to be appointed examiners as aforesaid, and they are hereby required, as often as may be necessary, in the day-time to enter into the shop, house, mill, store, outhouse, and other places near to such shop, mill, store, or house, and into the stall or standing-place of any person or persons who shall sell by weight or measure any wares, provisions, goods, or merchandise, or any liquid or dry goods, or other articles whatsoever, and then and there to search for, view, and examine all balances, and all weights and measures of length and capacity therein, and to seize any false or unequal balance or balances, and any weight or weights, measure or measures, being fraudulently stamped, or not being according to the standards, or the copies or models thereof, as hereinbefore is mentioned, which shall upon such search be found therein and to detain the same to be produced before any Justice of the Peace for the district or place within which any such balance, weight, or measure shall have been seized as aforesaid; and such Justice of the Peace is hereby authorized and required to inquire into, hear, and determine in a summary way, all informations, matters, and things touching such seizures, and the person or persons in whose shop, house, mill, store-house, outhouse, premises, stall, or standing-place, any such false, deficient, or fraudulently stamped balance or balances, weight or weights, measure or measures, shall be found, shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit all such false, deficient, or fraudulently stamped balances, weights, and measures, which balances, weights, and measures, so forfeited, shall be broken or otherwise disposed of, as such Justice before whom such conviction shall have taken place shall order and direct, and shall also forfeit and pay for every such false, deficient, or fraudulently stamped balance, weight, or measure, such sum of money, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, as the said Justice before whom any such person or persons shall be convicted shall in his discretion order and adjudge.
8. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall wilfully obstruct, hinder, resist, or in anywise oppose any of the persons hereby authorized and empowered to view and examine such balances, weights, and measures, in the execution of his office, or if any person, selling by weight or measure shall refuse to produce his balances, weights, or measures, in order to be viewed or examined, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted, that from and after the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, it shall not be lawful for any person to bargain, sell, deliver in payment, barter, or exchange, any goods, wares, merchandise, or other thing, by any other weights and measures than by such as shall agree with the said standard weights and measures, or the copies or models thereof, as aforesaid (except as hereinafter excepted,) upon pain of forfeiting for each and every such offence the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary way; Provided, however, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to contracts or bargains for the sale, exchange, or delivery of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other thing bonâ fide made