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Fees to be paid on weighing and branding tallow.
tallow casks to be branded, &c.
weigh-masters to attend at merchant’s or chandler’s stores
buying or selling casks which do not contain more than 2 cwt
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XXXVIII. And whereas the small fee given by the last recited act for weighing of tallow has been found by experience not to be a sufficient recompence for the charges the weigh-masters of the city of Cork are put to, and the labour requisite in the execution of their office; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the weigh-master or weigh-masters for the time being of said city, shall have and receive from the person for whom the same shall be weighed and branded, for every cask of tallow which shall not weigh more than two hundred weight, gross, the sum of one penny, and no more; and for every other cask which shall weigh more, the sum of one halfpenny for every hundred weight, gross, which it shall weigh, and no more; and in case the person for whom such tallow shall be weighed, shall refuse to pay the fees aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, to detain such tallow so weighed, until payment thereof shall be made to him or them, according to the true intent of this act, and that every cask for packing of tallow within said city and liberties, which when full, shall not weigh more than two hundred weight, gross, shall be weighed and branded empty, in like manner, and the same allowance for soakage given thereon, and shall be subject to all the regulations as is herein before provided with respect to casks for packing butter or rendered hog’s lard, and such cask shall be made of the like quality with casks for packing of butter, or rendered hog’s lard, and that the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, shall attend at the cellars or stores of any merchant or chandler within the said city or suburbs thereof, who shall have any tallow to weigh, and there shall weigh the same, such merchant or chandler giving the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, twenty-four hours notice for that purpose, and the person or persons buying, selling, or exposing to sale, any cask, which shall not contain more than two hundred weight for the packing of tallow, shall be subject to all the regulations and penalties herein provided with respect to persons buying, selling, or exposing to sale, any cask for the packing of butser or rendered hog’s lard, such penalties to be recovered in manner before provided with respect to casks for packing butter, and rendered hog’s lard.
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