be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every unwholesome such Offence; and any Inspector of Provisions appointed by the Meat, &c. Undertakers may seize such unwholesome Meat or Provisions, and carry the same before a Justice, and thereupon such Proceedings shall be had as are herein-after directed to be had in the Case of any Cattle or Carcase seized in any Slaughter

house, and carried before a Justice; and every Person who shall Penalty on obobstruct or hinder the Inspector of Provisions from scizing or structing Incarrying away such unwholesome Meat or Provisions shall be spector. liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every such

Offence.

XVI. Every Person who shall assault or obstruct any Person Penalty for appointed by the Undertakers to superintend the Market or obstructing Fair, or to keep Order therein, whilst in the Execution of his Market or Fair Duty, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

Keeper.

And with respect to Slaughter-houses, be it enacted as Slaughterfollows:

houses.

houses if autho

XVII. Where by the special Act the Undertakers shall be Power to erect empowered to provide Slaughter-houses they may from Time to SlaughterTime erect, on any Land purchased by them under the Pro- rized by the visions of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated there- special Act. with, any Buildings, or set apart and improve any Buildings belonging to them, for the slaughtering of Cattle, and so soon as the same shall be ready for public Use the Undertakers shall give Notice to that Effect by the Publication thereof in some Newspaper circulating within the Limits of the special Act, and by printed Handbills posted on some conspicuous Place within the said Limits.

takers from an

Cattle, &c. elsewhere than in an authorized Slaughterhouse.

XVIII. Provided that nothing in this or the special Act, or Nothing to proany Act incorporated therewith, shall protect the Undertakers tect Underfrom an Indictment for Nuisance, or from any other legal Indictment for Proceeding, in respect of any such Slaughter-house as aforesaid. Nuisance. XIX. After the Expiration of Ten Days from the Publica- Penalty on tion and posting of such Notice no Person shall slaughter any slaughtering Cattle or dress any Carcase for Sale as Human Food or Food of Man in any Place within the Limits of the special Act other than a Slaughter-house which was in use as such before and at the Time of the passing of the special Act, and has so continued ever since, or the Slaughter-houses made in pursuance of this and the special Act; and every Person who shall, after such Notice as aforesaid, slaughter any such Cattle or dress for Sale any such Carcase within the Limits of the special Act in any Place other than one of such Slaughter-houses, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every such Offence. XX. The Inspector of Provisions, or any Officer appointed Inspector may by the Undertakers for that Purpose, may at all Times of the enter and inDay, with or without Assistants, enter into and inspect all Spect SlaughterBuildings erected or set apart by the Undertakers for slaughtering Cattle, and examine whether any Cattle or the Carcase of any Cattle is deposited there; and in case such Officer shall find

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any

houses.

Slaughterhouses.

Weighing of Goods and Carts.

Undertakers to

provide proper Weights and Measures for

weighing Com

any Cattle, or the Carcase or Part of the Carcase of any such Cattle, which shall appear unfit for the Food of Man, he may seize and carry the same before a Justice, and such Justice shall forthwith order the same to be further inspected and examined by competent Persons; and in case upon such Inspection and Examination such Cattle, Carcase or Part of a Carcase, shall be found unfit for the Food of Man, such Justice shall order the same to be immediately destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such Way as to prevent the same being exposed for Sale or used for the Food of Man; and every Person who shall obstruct or hinder such Inspector or other Officer in the Discharge of any of the Duties aforesaid shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every such Offence.

And with respect to weighing Goods and Carts, be it enacted as follows:

XXI. The Undertakers shall provide sufficient and proper Weighing Houses or Places for weighing or measuring the Commodities sold in the Market or Fair, and shall keep therein proper Weights, Scales, and Measures according to the Standard modities sold at Weights and Measures for the Time being for weighing such Commodities as aforesaid, and shall appoint proper Persons to attend to the weighing or measuring such Commodities at all Times during which the Market or Fair is holden.

Markets and

Fairs.

Articles to be

weighed if re-
quested by the
Buyer.

Penalty for
Refusal.

Penalty on Persons appointed refusing to weigh.

Undertakers to keep proper Machines for

laden with Goods.

XXII. Every Person selling or offering for Sale any Articles in the Market or Fair shall, if required so to do by the Buyer, cause the same to be weighed or measured by the Weights and Scales or Measures provided by the Undertakers; and any such Person who shall refuse, on Demand, o cause such Articles to be weighed or measured in manner aforesaid, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

XXIII. Every Person appointed by the Undertakers to weigh or measure any Articles sold in the Market or Fair who shall refuse or neglect to weigh or measure the same when required shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

XXIV. The Undertakers shall provide sufficient and proper Buildings or Places for weighing Carts in which Goods are weighing Carts brought for Sale within the Market or Fair or the prescribed Limits, and shall keep therein Machines and Weights proper for that Purpose, and shall from Time to Time appoint a Person in every such Building or Place to afford the Use of such Machines to the Public by weighing such Carts, with or without their Loading, as may be required.

Carts to be

of the Machines

Undertakers.

XXV. The Driver of every such Cart shall, at the Request weighed at one of the Buyer or Seller of such Goods, or his Agent, take such Cart, with or without the Loading thereof, to the nearest of the said Weighing Machines, and shall permit the same to be weighed; and if such Cart be weighed with its Load thereupon the Driver shall, if required, take such Cart after its Load has been discharged to the Weighing Machine nearest to such Place of Discharge, and permit it to be re-weighed without such

Load;

a

Load; and if any such Driver shall for the Purposes aforesaid be required to take such Cart a greater Distance than Half Mile, including the going to and returning from such Machines respectively, the Owner of the Cart shall be paid for every Horse which shall be used in drawing such Cart Two-pence for the First Half Mile, and a like Sum for every additional Half Mile; and such Payment shall be made by the Person requiring such Cart to be weighed as aforesaid before the Driver thereof shall be obliged to take it as aforesaid for the Purpose of having it weighed.

Weighing of

Goods and Carts.

fusing to take

XXVI. The Driver of any such Cart who shall not, upon Penalty on being so requested as aforesaid, and having such Payment Drivers for remade or tendered as aforesaid, take the same to such Weighing Carts to be Machine as herein-before directed, or who shall refuse to assist weighed, &c. in the weighing of the same, shall forfeit to the Person requiring such Cart to be weighed a Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings.

XXVII. Every Driver of any such Cart weighed at any Penalties on Weighing Machine to be provided in pursuance of this or the Drivers of special Act who shall commit any of the following Offences shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for each Offence; (that is to say,)

If he at the Time of weighing any such Cart knowingly have any thing in or about the same other than the proper Loading thereof:

If he alter any Ticket denoting the Weight of any such Cart, or the Loading of the same:

If he make or use, or be privy to making or using, any Ticket falsely stating the Weight of any such Cart or the Loading thereof:

If he, after the weighing of any such Cart, with the Loading thereof, remove any Part of such Loading, and afterwards dispose of or attempt to dispose of or represent the Residue of such Loading as being the full Loading denoted by such Ticket:

If he, between the Time when the Cart and the Loading thereof have been so weighed and the Time when such Cart is weighed without such Loading, change the Wheels of such Cart, or make any other Change upon it after being required to allow such Cart to be weighed without the Loading thereof:

If he be guilty of any other fraudulent Contrivance to misrepresent the Weight of any such Cart or of the Loading thereof.

Carts, &c. committing Frauds in weighing.

lers for commit

XXVIII. If the Buyer or Seller of any Goods brought in Penalty on any Cart for Sale within the Market or Fair, and which shall Buyers or Selbe required to be weighed as aforesaid, shall do any thing to ing Frauds in such Cart or its Loading whereby the true Weight thereof weighing. respectively shall be altered before such weighing, he shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

Penalties for

Frauds com.
mitted by the
Machine
Keeper.

Penalty on other Parties committing

Frauds as to weighing.

Tolls.

Tolls, &c. not

until Market or

10 VICT. XXIX. The Person for the Time being appointed to keep any Weighing Machine provided in pursuance of this or the special Act shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds in any of the following Cases; (that is to say,)

If he wilfully neglect, on Application, duly to weigh any Cart,
with or without its Loading, as the Case may be, that is
brought to the Machine kept by him to be weighed:
If he do not fairly weigh every such Cart, with or without
Loading, as the Case may be:

If he do not deliver to the Buyer or Seller of any such Load-
ing, or to any Person interested therein, on Application, a
Ticket or Account specifying the true Weight of such
Cart, with or without such Loading, as may be required:
If he give to the Driver of any such Cart a false Ticket or
Account of the Weight of such Cart, with or without the
Loading thereof:

If he weigh any Cart, with or without its Loading, knowing
that any thing had been done to such Cart or to the Load-
ing thereof to alter the true Weight thereof respectively:
If he knowingly assist in or connive at any Fraud concerning
the weighing of any Cart or the Loading thereof, or make
or connive at making any false Representation of the Weight
of the same respectively.

XXX. Every Person who shall knowingly act or assist in committing any Fraud respecting the weighing or Weight of any Cart, or the Loading thereof, in pursuance of this or the special Act, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

And with respect to the Stallages, Rents, and Tolls to be taken by the Undertakers, be it enacted as follows:

XXXI. Unless it be otherwise provided by the special Act, to be demanded the Undertakers shall not demand or receive any Stallage, Rent, Fair completed. or Toll until the Market Place or Place for a Fair or Slaughter-house in respect of the Use of which the same shall be demanded shall be completed and fit for the Use of the Persons resorting thereunto.

Certificate of Two Justices to be Evidence

that Market or Fair is completed.

Stallages, &c. when to be paid.

Tolls to be paid

to Persons authorized before the same are weighed, &c.

XXXII. A Certificate under the Hand of any Two Justices shall be conclusive Evidence that the same is completed and fit for public Use as aforesaid; and any such Justices shall sign such Certificate on Proof being adduced to them that the Market Place or Place for a Fair or Slaughter-house is so completed and fit for public Use.

XXXIII. The several Stallages, Rents, or Tolls payable in respect of the Market or Fair or Slaughter-house shall be paid from Time to Time, on Demand, to the Undertakers, or the Collector or other Person authorized by the Undertakers to receive the same.

XXXIV. The Tolls payable in respect of weighing or measuring marketable Commoditics, or Carts with or without Goods, shall be paid to the Person authorized by the Under

takers

Tolls.

takers to weigh or measure the same by the Persons bringing such marketable Commodities or Carts to be weighed or measured, before the same are weighed or measured.

XXXV. The Tolls in respect of Cattle brought to the Tolls in respect Market for Sale shall become due as soon as the Cattle in res- of Cattle Marpect whereof they are demandable are brought into the Market ket when due. Place, and before the Cattle are put into any Pen, or tied up in such Market Place; and if the Cattle be not removed within One Hour after the Close of the Market another Toll shall become due in respect of the Cattle so omitted to be removed.

XXXVI. The Undertakers may from Time to Time change Stallages, Tolls, the Stallages, Rents, and Tolls to be taken in respect of the &c. may be Market or Fair or for the Slaughter-houses, or for weighing and varied from measuring, provided that the Stallages, Rents, and Tolls in no Case exceed the Amounts authorized by the special Act.

XXXVII. Every Person who shall demand or receive a greater Toll than that authorized to be taken under the Provisions of this or the special Act shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

XXXVIII. If any Person liable to the Payment of any Stallage, Rent, or Toll authorized by this or the special Act to be taken do not pay the same when demanded, the Undertakers or their Lessee, or any Person authorized by the Undertakers or their Lessee to collect the same, may levy the same in England or Ireland by Distress, and in Scotland by Poinding and Sale, of all or any of the Cattle or other Articles in respect of which such Stallage, Rent, or Toll is payable, or of any other Cattle or other Articles in the Market belonging to the Person liable to pay such Stallage, Rent, or Toll, or under his Charge, or such Tolls may be recovered in any Court having competent

Jurisdiction.

Time to Time.

Penalty on taking a greater Toll than au

thorized by this or special Act.

Recovery of

Tolls by Dis

tress, &c.

specting Tolls,

XXXIX. If any Dispute arise concerning any such Stal- Disputes relage, Rent, or Toll, such Dispute shall be determined in England how to be setor Ireland by a Justice, and in Scotland by the Sheriff, and tled. such Justice or Sheriff shall, on Application made to him, determine the same, and make such Order therein, and award such Costs to either Party, as to him shall seem proper; and in default of Payment, on Demand, of the Money which shall be so awarded, and of the Costs, the same shall be forthwith levied in England or Ireland by Distress, and in Scotland by Poinding and Sale, and the Justice or Sheriff shall issue his Warrant accordingly.

lector of Rents,

XL. Every Person who shall assault or obstruct any Person Penalty for obauthorized to collect any Stallage, Rent, or Toll authorized by structing Colthis or the special Act shall for every such Offence be liable to &c. a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

and placed in

XLI. The Undertakers or their Lessee shall from Time to List of Tolls, Time cause to be painted on Boards, or to be printed and attached &c. to be set up to Boards, in large and legible Characters, a List of the several conspicuous Stallages, Rents, and Tolls from Time to Time payable under Places. this and the special Act, and shall cause a Board containing

such