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Proper places, scales, and weights, to be provided by weigh-masters, for weighing and selling hides and calf skins, where weigh-masters or deputies shall attend.
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XXV. And whereas great abuses are committed by the wilful dirtying, rimming, flawtering, cutting, and gashing of hides and calf skins; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said weigh master or weigh-masters of the city of Cork, for the time being, shall provide some clean public place or places, properly paved and sufficiently roomy, within said city, or the suburbs thereof, with scales, and proper weights and linneys, and that every hide and calf skin which shall be bought or sold within said city, and the liberties thereof, shall be weighed at such public place or places, and no where else within said city, or the liberties thereof, and that the said weigh-master or weigh-masters, his or their deputy or deputies, shall attend at such place or places so appointed, every day in the week, (Sundays, Christmas-day, Saint Stephen’s-day, and New-year’s-day excepted) from eight of the clock in the morning to one in the afternoon, and from two to four in the evening from the twenty-fifth day of December until the twenty-ninth day of September, and from thence to the first day of December from eight o’clock in the morning until one in the evening, and from two in the evening until five, and from the said first day of December until the twenty-fifth day of December, from eight of the clock in the morning until one in the evening, and from two in the evening until four, and then and there weigh such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, as shall be brought thither, and that every hide and calf skin shall be weighed at some one of said places so provided, before the same shall be delivered to the buyer or buyers of the same within the said city, or the liberties thereof.
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