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Salted hides and calf skins, and dried hides to be weighed by weigh-masters, whenever they are sold, &c.
allowances to be made.
disputes to be determined by the mayor.
fees on weighing hides and calf skins.
penalty for buying or selling salted or dried hides or calf skins.
distinction between hides and calf skins.
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XXXV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said weigh master or weigh-masters of the city of Cork, for the time being, his or their deputy or deputies, shall weigh all salted hides and calf skins, and dried hides and calf skins, so often as the same shall be sold within the said city and the liberties thereof, and in case any person or persons shall sell within said city or liberties any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, salted and made up for sale, or any dried hide or calf skin, the same shall be weighed by the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, to the person buying such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, whether the same had been weighed before or hot, which said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, shall allow, on every such hide, and calf skin, such allowance as is before directed with respect to green hides and calf skins, and if required by the buyer, shall have liberty to open such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, at the expence of such buyer, and shall, is, and are hereby required, on request of the buyer so to do; and in case any dirt, wet flesh, skulls, lips or rumps, or more salt than is necessary to save the same shall be found in such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, shall make such allowance for such dirt, wet flesh, skulls, lips, rumps, or salt, as to him or them shall seem reasonable, which the seller shall be obliged to allow; and in case any dispute shall happen to arise on such allowance, the same shall be determined by the mayor of said city, which determination shall be final and conclusive to each party, as well they buyer as the seller, which weigh-master or weigh-masters shall have and receive, for weighing such hides, the sum of one penny for every hide so weighed, and the sum of one farthing for every calf skin so weighed, and until satisfaction thereof the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, may detain such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins as aforesaid, and in case any person or persons shall sell or buy within said city or liberties, any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins salted or dried, which shall not be weighed as herein is provided, such person or persons being thereof convicted before the said mayor by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, which oath or oaths the said mayor is hereby empowered and required to administer, shall forfeit, for every such hide, the sum of ten shillings, and for every such calf skin, the sum of five shillings, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of said mayor, (which warrant he is hereby empowered and required to issue;) and that the skin of every bull, ox, and cow, above the age of one year, shall be esteemed and taken to be an hide within the meaning of this act, and the skin of any bull, ox and cow, under that age, shall be esteemed and taken to be a calf skin.
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