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Penalty on weigh-masters or deputies for buying or selling hides, &c.
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XXXVI, 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, or any person or persons in trust for him, them, or any of them shall not buy, sell, contract, or treat for any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, and in case the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, shall by himself, themselves, or by any person or persons in trust for him, them, or either of them, buy, sell, contract, or treat for any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, or either of them being thereof convicted before the mayor of said city 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 for every hide or calf skin so bought, sold, contracted for, or treated about, forfeit the sum of five pounds, 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 required and empowered to issue.
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