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Duty of present weigh-masters, and their successors.
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II. And whereas his Majesty, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the lasted recited act, has been pleased to appoint and nominate the honorable Thomas Knox, Thomas Burgh, and Mountiford Longfield, esquires, to be weigh-masters of said city; be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said weigh-masters, and their successor and successors in said office to be nominated and appointed pursuant to said act, shall provide a sufficient and convenient weigh-house or weigh-houses within said city, or the suburbs thereof, and shall also provide beams, scales, weights, branding irons, and other necessaries, at their own proper costs and charges, and shall attend at their respective weigh-house or weigh houses, by themselves, or by a sufficient deputy or deputies, every day in the weak, (Sundays, Christmas-day, saint Stephen’s-day, and New Year’s-day excepted) from six of the clock in the morning until one, and from two in the afternoon until seven, from the twenty-fifth day of March until the twenty-ninth day of September, and from thence until the twenty-fifth day of March, from eight of the clock in the morning until one, and from two in the afternoon until four, and then and there weigh, brand, and mark all such butter and empty casks as by the said act they are required.
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