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Penalty for buying or selling hides or calf skins by hand, or at greater or less tare than entered in weigh master’s book.
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XXIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall buy or sell, within the city of Cork, or the liberties thereof, any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, by hand, and not by weight, or at a greater or less tare or allowance than that entered in the weigh-master’s book aforesaid, such person or persons so buying or selling, 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, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of ten shillings for every hide, and five shillings for every calf skin so bought or sold, 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 sufficient goods and chattels to answer such penalty or penalties, such offender or offenders shall, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor, which warrant he 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 two months, nor less than seven days, at the discretion of the said mayor.
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