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Salting, drying, tanning and currying hides and calf skins.
penalty on owners of green hides and skins, for not bringing them to be weighed, or salted or dried hides.
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XXXVII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the original owner of every green hide or calf skin, who shall intend to have the same salted, dried, tanned, or curried within the said city, or the liberties thereof, and every person who shall bring any green hide or calf skin into the said city or liberties, with an intent to have the same salted, dried, tanned, or curried in said city or liberties, shall carry the same before the same shall be salted, dried, tanned, or curried as aforesaid, to one of the said public places, there to be weighed and entered in like manner as is provided by this act with respect to green hides and calf skins, which shall be sold within said city, or the liberties thereof, and shall be subject to all the penalties and forfeitures herein before provided with respect to the sellers of any green hide or hides, calf skin or calf skins, within the said city, or the liberties thereof, and every person who shall bring any salted or dried hide or calf skin into the said city or liberties, for the purpose of exporting the same, or having the same tanned or curried within the said city and liberties, shall carry the same before he shall attempt to export the same, or to tan or curry the same, to one of said public places, there to be weighed, as is before herein provided with respect to salted or dried hides and calf skins, which shall be sold within said city, or the liberties thereof, and shall be subject to all the penalties and forfeitures herein provided with respect to the sellers of salted or dried hides and calf skins within said city and liberties, and if such original owner of every green hide or calf skin as aforesaid, or every such person bringing any green hide or calf skin into said city or liberties as aforesaid, shall not carry the same to be weighed and entered as herein is provided, or every such person bringing any salted or dried hide or calf skin into said city or liberties as aforesaid, shall not carry the same to be weighed as herein is provided, every such offender 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 hide ten shillings, and for every such calf skin five shillings, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of said mayor, which warrant he is hereby empowered and required to issue.
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