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Bakers, Weekly returns by corn factors and bakers,
on neglect forfeit 10s. per barrel.
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XLVII. And whereas the laws for regulating the price and assize of bread, and for better regulating the markets and bakers, have been found by experience to be very useful, and great frauds and abuses are daily committed in the markets of the said city of Waterford, for the want of such laws: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, all and every merchant and merchants, corn factor or corn factors, selling to any publick baker or bakers any wheat or meal, or flour made of wheat within the said city of Waterford, or the liberties thereof, or any baker or bakers buying or selling not less than one barrel of wheat, or one hundred weight of meal, or flour made of wheat within the said city, or liberties thereof, shall once every week make a return in writing to the mayor of said city for the time being, which return shall be on oath, (which oath the said mayor is hereby impowered and required to administer) and shall contain the true quantities of all such wheat, and the weight thereof, and the weight of such meal and flour by him, her, or them bought or sold, or for their use, or in trust for them bought by any other person or persons within said city, or the liberties thereof, as also the time when, and the real prices of such wheat, meal, and flour so bought or sold, and all and every allowance, if any for the same, together with the names of the persons from whom such wheat, meal, or flour, shall be bought, and of the persons to whom the same shall be sold; which returns shall every week be duly entered in a book to be kept by the clerk of the market of the said city of Waterford, or his sufficient deputy for that purpose, in order more effectually to ascertain the middle price of wheat, for settling assize of bread weekly; and if any such merchant, factor, or baker, buying and selling as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to make such return, he, she, or they so neglecting or refusing, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of ten shillings for each barrel, and so in proportion for any greater or other quantity so bought or sold, which forfeiture shall be recovered before the mayor of the said city, upon the confession of the parties, or proof thereof made on oath of one or more witness or witnesses, which oath or oaths the said mayor is hereby impowered and required to administer; and the said forfeitures shall be levied by warrant of the said mayor, by distress and sale of the offenders goods, and the said forfeitures so levied shall be paid one half to the informer, and the other half to the chamberlain of the said city, to be disposed of by the mayor and common council of the said city, for the purposes aforesaid: and the said mayor and common council are hereby authorized and required to apply said fines for the purpose aforesaid, and for no other use, intent, or purpose whatsoever.
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