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Penalties for frauds committed by the machine keeper.
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29. The person for the time being appointed to keep any weighing machine provided in pursuance of this or the special Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds in any of the following cases; (that is to say,)
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If he willfully neglect, on application, duly to weigh any cart, with or without its loading, as the case may be, that is brought to the machine kept by him to be weighed:
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If he do not fairly weigh every such cart, with or without loading, as the case may be:
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If he do not deliver to the buyer or seller of any such loading, or to any person interested therein, on application, a ticket or account specifying the true weight of such cart, with or without such loading, as may be required:
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If he give to the driver of any such cart a false ticket or account of the weight of such cart, with or without the loading thereof:
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If he weigh any cart, with or without its loading, knowing that any thing had been done to such cart or to the loading thereof, to alter the true weight thereof respectively:
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If he knowingly assist in or connive at any fraud concerning the weighing of any cart or the loading thereof, or make or connive at making any false representation of the weight of the same respectively.
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