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Penalties for bringing hides or calf skins with cuts in them, to be weighed.
dewlap to be divided, &c.
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XXXIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, shall be brought to be weighed by the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, for the time being, of the city of Cork, his or their deputy or deputies, which shall have any gash or gashes cut or cuts therein, as well in the offal as in the prime parts thereof, it shall be lawful for the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, and he and they is and are hereby required and empowered to seize the same, and carry the same before the mayor of the said city, who is hereby empowered and required to enquire thereinto, and if such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins shall, upon examination, inspection, or due proof, appear to him to have any gash or gashes, cut or cuts therein as aforesaid, the party to whom the same shall belong shall forfeit, for every such hide, a sum not exceeding fifteen shillings, nor less than one shilling; and for every calf skin, a sum not exceeding one shilling, nor less than three pence, at the discretion of the said mayor, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor, which warrant he is hereby empowered and required to issue; and if any hide shall not have its dewlap split, and equally divided down the middle lengthways, or shall have its dewlap in sticking cut across, or shall not have the neck and face skinned off whole, the seller shall allow, on every such hide, one shilling in the price thereof to the buyer, for such abuse.
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