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8° VICTORIE.- No . 22 of 1844. 63


as aforesaid, and they are hereby required, as often as may be neces- or
Weights, Balances,
deficientand Mea-
sary, in the Day Time to enter into the Shop, House, Mill, Store, sures.
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 what-
soever, 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 Upon Conviction,
and
inquire into, hear, and determine in a Summary Way, all Informa- Measures to be des
tions, Matters, and Things touching such Seizures, and the Person or troyed.
Persons 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 Mea-
sures, shall be found, shall, upon Conviction thereof, forfeit all such
false, deficient, or fraudulently stamped Balances, Weights, and Mea-
sures, 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 And Offender to
ly forfeit
ceeding Sum Hundred
a One not ex-
also forfeit and pay for every such false, deficient, or fraudulent
stamped Balance, Weight, or Measure, such Sum of Money, not Dollars.
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.


VIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall wilfully Penalty on Persons
obstructingExaminers,
Obstruct, Hinder, Resist, or in anywise Oppose any of the Persons or refusing to produce
hereby authorized and empowered to view and examine such Balan- Balances,
Measures Weights, or
for Exami-
ces, Weights, and Measures, in the Execution of his Office, or if any nation.
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.

IX . And be it further, That from and after the First Day No Person to sell by
of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-five, it shall standard Weste
Weights and
not be lawful for any person to Bargain, Sell, Deliver in Payment, Measures.
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 Not to apply to Con-
nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to Contracts or Bargains totracts made previous
Commencement of
for the Sale, Exchange, or Delivery of any Goods, Wares, Merchandise, Ordinance.
or other Thing bona fide made and entered into before the said First
Day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-five ; but
that all Goods, Wares, Merchandise, and other Thing so contracted and
Q bargained