City of Cork (Butter Market) Act 1800

Penalties which are to go to the work house shall be received by weigh masters, and accounted for, deducting 5 per cent.

XLI. And be it enacted, That the deputy weigh-masters of said city shall be, and are hereby directed and required to receive all such penalties and forfeitures as by this act are to the governors of the work-house of said city, and shall account quarterly upon oath with the court of assistants of said work-house for the said penalties and forfeitures received by them respectively, deducting live pounds, and so in proportion, as recompence for his trouble.