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110 ORDINANCE No. 22 OF 1844 .


Weights and Measures.

Examiners, 7. And be it further enacted , that it shall and may be lawful to and for the person
when so
directed, to visit
shops, &c., and or persons so to be appointed examiners as aforesaid, and they are hereby required, as
seize false or
deficient often as may be necessary, in the day-time to enter into the shop, house, mill,
balances,
weights, and store, outhouse, and other places near to such shop, mill, store, or house, and into the
measures.
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
Upon conviction district or place within which any such balance, weight, or measure shall have been
false weights
and measures to seized as aforesaid ; and such Justice of the Peace is hereby authorized and required to
be destroyed .
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
And offender to conviction shall have taken place shall order and direct, and shall also forfeit and pay
forfeit a sum not
exceeding one for every such false, deficient, or fraudulently stamped balance, weight, or measure, such
hundred dollars.
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 .

Penalty on 8. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall wilfully obstruct, hinder,
persons
obstructing
examiners, or resist, or in anywise oppose any of the persons hereby authorized and empowered to
refusing to
produce view and examine such balances, weights , and measures, in the execution of his office,
balances,
weights, or or if any person, selling by weight or measure shall refuse to produce his balances,
measures for
examination. 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 .

No person to sell 9. And be it further enacted , that from and after the first day of February, one
by any other
than the thousand eight hundred and forty-five, it shall not be lawful for any person to bargain ,
standard
weights and
measures. 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 herein
after excepted , ) upon pain of forfeiting for each and every such offence the sum of
Not to apply to one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary way ; Provided, however, that
contracts made
previous to nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to contracts or bargains for the sale,
commencement
of Ordinance.
exchange, or delivery of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other thing bona fide made