WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ 8 OF 1885. ] 719
If any copies or models deposited with a Police Magistrate
are lost, destroyed, defaced or injured, they shall be replaced
by others of the same weight or measure duly verified and
approved.
2. Any person wishing to compare any weight or measure Magistrate to
with the copy or model deposited with a Police Magistrate shall and
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be allowed access to such copy or model for the purpose of
making such comparison, at reasonable times to be appointed
by the Police Magistrate in his discretion . The comparison
shall be made in the Magistrate's presence, and the Magistrate,
on being satisfied that the weight or measure brought for com
parison corresponds truly to the copy or model, shall stamp or
mark the same in such manner as the Colonial Treasurer may
from time to time determine to shew that the same has been
compared and approved .
Such person shall defray all expenses of conveying his weights
and measures to or from the Police Court, or shall deposit with
the examiner one dollar if such weights and measures are on
shore, or two dollars if they are on board a ship in the harbour,
to defray such expenses.
3. The Governor shall from time to time appoint proper Appointment
persons to be examiners of weights and measures, and may at ofexaminers.
pleasure remove any persons so appointed.
4. It shall be the duty of examiners of weights and measures Examiners
to enter the business premises of any persons who sell goods by may seizoen
fraudulent
weight or measure and examine the weights or measures found weights and
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on such premises, and seize any of such weights or measures as
appear to be fraudulently stamped or not to be according to or
not to agree with the standard weights or measures of the
Colony .
5. No person shall buy or sell or otherwise deal by any Dealings by
weights or measures other than such as are according to and standard
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No person shall buy or sell or otherwise deal by any measure hibited . s pro
of length or by any steelyard which is not made conformably
to the regulations contained in the schedule of this ordinance.
6. Any person who falsifies or wilfully injures any copies or Falsifying
models of standard weights or measures deposited with a Police weights and
measures or
Magistrate, or buys or sells or otherwise deals by, or upon havingposses.
sion of
whose business premises are found any weights or measures fraudulent
fraudulently stamped or marked or not according to and agree- weightsand
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ing with the standard weights and measures of the Colony, or
who obstructs any examiner of weights and measures in the
discharge of his duty as such , shall be liable under this ordi
nance on summary conviction before a Police Magistrate to år
penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offence,
apart from and in adlition to any other penalty or liability to