City of Cork (Butter Market) Act 1800

Penalty for buying or selling butter otherwise than as herein directed.

XVII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every person or persons who shall either buy or sell any cask or casks of butter, at any greater or less tare, or shall take or give any greater or less allowance than the tare and allowance for soakage branded on such cask or casks of butter, or who shall buy any cask or casks of butter by hand, and not by weight, such person or persons so buying or selling at a greater or less tare or allowance than as aforesaid, notwithstanding any contract between them and such person so buying by hand, and not by weight, on being convicted thereof before the mayor of said city, by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, (which oath 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 the sum of ten shillings, to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such offender or offenders by warrant under the hand and seal of 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 by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor, (which warrant the said mayor is hereby empowered and required to issue), be committed 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 the said mayor.