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Penalty on Persons who try, buy, or sell casks of butter not branded as directed.
penalty for not returning butter into cavity from whence it was boared.
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XVI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any cask or casks of butter shall be tried or bored at any other place, save only at one of the said weigh-houses, or bought, sold, or exposed to sale within said city, or the liberties thereof, before the same shall have been duly tried, weighed, and branded, at one of the weigh-houses of said city, pursuant to the directions of this act both the buyer and seller of such cask, or the person or persons so trying or boring such cask or casks of butter, and the person or persons so buying, selling, or exposing to sale such cask or casks of butter, before the same shall have been duly tried, weighed, and branded as aforesaid, 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) or on the confession of the party or parties before the said mayor, shall each of them forfeit for each cask of butter so tried, bored, bought, sold, or exposed to sale, the sum of twenty shillings, 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 the said mayor is hereby empowered and required to issue), and in case such offender or offenders shall not have goods and chattels sufficient to answer the said penalty or penalties, such offender or offenders shall be committed to the gaol of said city, by warrant under the hand and seal of said mayor, (which warrant he is hereby empowered and required to issue) there to remain without bail or mainprize for a space of time not exceeding two months, or for less than one week, at the discretion of said mayor; and if any person or persons who shall bore any cask or casks of butter within said city, or the liberties thereof, shall not return the butter taken out by such boring into its proper cavity in such cask or casks, 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 adminiser) shall forfeit for every such cask the sum of ten 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 in case such offender or offenders shall not have goods and chattels sufficient to answer such penalty, then such offender or offenders shall be committed by warrant, under the hand and seal of said mayor, (which warrant he is hereby empowered and required to issue), to the gaol of said city, there to remain without bail or mainprize for a space of time not exceeding one month, nor less than one week, at the discretion of said mayor.
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