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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST OCTOBER, 1881.

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 Ba- lances, 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 herein-before 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 in whose Shop, House, Mill, Storehouse, 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, defidient, or fraudu- lently stamped Balances, Weights, and Measures,

which Balances, Weights, and Measures, so forfeit- ed, 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 Meas- ure, such Sum of Money, not exceeding the Sum of One Hundred Dollars, as the said Justice before whom any such Person shall be convicted shall in his Discretion order and adjudge.

VIII. 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 Meas- ures, 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 nor less than Fifty Dollars.

IX. 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 or Measures than by such as shall agree with the said Standard Weights and Measures, or the Copies. or Models thereof, as aforesaid (except as herein- after excepted), upon Pain of forfeiting for each and every such Offence the Sum of One Hundred Dollars,"to be recovered in a summary Way. [Residue of this Section has had its Effect.]

X. In every Sale, Barter, and Exchange of any Goods or Things which are not commonly or which shall not be contracted or agreed to be delivered by heaped Measure, the Measure shall not be heaped, but shall be stricken with a round Stich or Roller straight and of the same Diameter from End to End..

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