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Butter bought by weigh-masters, or any person in their employment, shall be forfeited or the value thereof
no publican or cooper shall
be a weigh-master or deputy.
weigh-master or deputy, &c. may have one cask of butter.
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XVIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said weigh-master or weigh-masters of said city for the time being, his or their deputy or deputies, or any cooper or other person employed in any of the said weigh-houses of said city, or any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, shall not buy, sell, contract, or treat for any cask or casks of butter, and in case the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, such cooper or other person so employed in any of the said weigh-houses, or any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, shall buy, sell, contract, or treat for any cask or casks of butter, the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, such cooper or other person so employed in any of the said weigh-houses, being thereof convicted before the mayor of said city, on the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, (which oath oaths the mayor is hereby empowered and required to administer), shall forfeit the butter so bought or sold by him, them, or any of them, or by any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, or the value thereof, to be recovered in like manner as the penalty for buying butter by hand, and not by weight, is hereby directed; and that no person who keeps a public house nor any cooper during the time such cooper shall exercise and follow the trade or mystery of a cooper, or shall employ any apprentice, or other person in making casks for packing up butter, or rendered hog’s lard, for his use, or in trust for him, shall be capable of being a weigh-master or deputy weigh-master of said city, for weighing of butter; tallow, hides, or calf-skins, within the meaning of this act, any thing in this act, or any former law to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall preclude such weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, or such cooper or other person, from purchasing and having in his possession, one cask of butter at a time, for the use of his or their family or families, and no more.
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