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Casks of butter or hog’s lard shipped for exportation without being branded, shall be seized, and carried before the mayor,
penalty on revenue officers for suffering unbranded casks to be shipped.
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XIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall attempt to load or put on board any ship, boat, or vessel in the river of the city of Cork, in order to be exported, any cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, not marked and branded as by this act is required, it shall be lawful for the land-waiter or land-waiters of said city, or any other revenue officer entrusted with the putting on board any ship, boat, or vessel in said river as aforesaid, any cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard for exportation, and they are hereby required to seize any cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard not marked and branded as aforesaid, and to carry the same before the mayor of said city, who is hereby empowered and required to enquire into the same; and if such cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, shall, upon examination or inspection, or due proof, appear not to be marked and branded pursuant to this act, he shall adjudge such cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, to be forfeited, and if any such land-waiter or other revenue officer so entrusted as aforesaid, shall permit or suffer any cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, to be loaded or put on board any ship, boat, or vessel in said river, in order to be exported, unless such cask or casks of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, have been marked and branded pursuant to this act, that then and in every such case, every such land-waiter or other revenue officer offending therein, shall forfeit the sum of five pounds for every such cask of butter or rendered hog’s lard that shall be loaded and put on board any such ship, boat, or vessel in said river for exportation, not marked and branded pursuant to this act, the same to be recovered by civil bill before the justice or justices of assize for said city, in the same manner as civil bills in other cases shall be used and practised.
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