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Weigh masters or deputies may enter and search for hides and calf skins not weighed and entered as directed.
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XXX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said weigh-master or weigh-masters of the city of Cork, for the time being, his or their deputy or deputies, or any or either of them, being thereunto authorized by warrant under the hand and seal of the mayor, or a justice of the peace of the said city, who are hereby empowered and required to grant such warrant, upon due information upon oath, shall have power and authority, and is and are hereby empowered and authorized, at any time of the day, to go and enter into all such houses, out-houses, cellars, yards, tan-yards, back-sides, or other places within said city or the liberties thereof, where they, or either of them, shall have cause to suspect any hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, which was or were weighed at any other place than one of the said public places, or which had been delivered to the buyer thereof before the same had been weighed and entered, pursuant to this act, and to search for the same and the party in whose house, out-house, cellar, yard, tan yard, back-side, or other place, such hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins shall be found, being thereof convicted before said mayor or justice by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, which oath or oaths the said mayor or justice is hereby empowered and required to administer, unless he proves before the said mayor or justice, by the oaths of two credible witnesses, which oaths the said mayor or justice is hereby empowered and required to administer, that the same was or were not weighed at any other place than at one of said public places within the said city or liberties, and was or were duly weighed and entered pursuant to this act, before the same had been delivered to the buyer, shall forfeit, for every such hide, the sum of ten shillings; and for every such calf skin, the sum of five 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 or justice, (which warrant the said mayor or justice is hereby empowered and required to issue); and in case such offender shall not have goods and chattels sufficient to answer such penalty, such offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of said mayor or justice, which warrant the said mayor or justice is hereby empowered and required to issue, shall 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 or justice.
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