Acts. 449

him without his viewing and examining the same and that he will not
brand or cause to be branded any Cask or Casks of Flour that does
not appear to the best of his Skill and Knowledge to be in all respects
sufficiently clean sweet and merchantable and that he will pass and
brand all such Cask or Casks of Flour as shall appear to him suffi-
ciently clean sweet and merchantable according to the Degree thereof
to the best of his Skill and Knowledge and according to the directions
of this Act and that he will not wittingly or willingly charge ask take
receive exact or Demand any other or larger Fees or Rates tor doing
his Duty in his Office as Inspector of Flour than is mentioned and
directed by this Act

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further Enacted That the said Inspector of Flour is
hereby strictly charged and required not to purchase directly or
indirectly any Flour by him condemned as aforesaid or any Flour
whatsoever other than for his own Family Use under the Penalty
of forty shillings Current Money for each Barrel

[Inspectors
not to pur-
chase any
Flour, but
for Family
Use, on
Penalty]

And be it further Enacted That if any Person or Persons shall
alter the Mark stamped on any Barrel of Flour by the said Inspector
or shall mark or brand any Barrel of Flour which hath not been
inspected with any mark or brand similer to or in Imitation of the
Inspector's said Mark or Brand or after the said Inspector shall have
passed any Barrel of Flour as merchantable shall pack into the
Cask which contains the same any other Flour or after any Barrel of
Flour shall be branded with a Broad Arrow shall unpack and repack
the same into other Casks or Packages for Exportation out of this
Province such Person or Persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of
forty shillings Current Money for every Barrel. And as the Subject-

[Persons
altering the
Inspectors
Mark, or
Brand, &c.
to pay 40 s.
for each
Barrel.]

ing of all Grain Salt and Flax Seed to the Measurement of an Officer
acting under Oath will prevent the Disputes and Impositions com-
plained of
Be it further Enacted that from and after the first Day of Septem-
ber next all Grain of any Kind Salt or Flax Seed which shall be
brought by Land or Water to and Offered for Sale in the said Town
shall be measured by the Officer so as aforesaid to be appointed with
proper Measures to be tried and Stamped by the County Standard
and Provided for that Purpose if he shall be thereto required at
the Choice and Election of either the Purchaser or Seller of such
Grain Salt or Flax Seed for which Trouble he the said Officer shall

[Grain, Salt,
or Flax-
Seed, to be
measured by
the Officer
appointed,
&c]

and may demand have and receive of the Purchaser or Seller of the
said Grain Salt or Flax Seed who shall require the same the sum
of one shilling Current Money for every one hundred Bushels of
Grain Salt or Flax seed and no more and so pro rato.
And be it further Enacted That the said Measures of Grain Salt
and Flax Seed and Hay Weighers and each of them so as aforesaid
to be appointed shall and they and each of them are hereby required
on his or their Appointment and before his or their executing, the

[and to be
paid 1 s. for
each 100
Bushels, and
pro rato.]

[Oath to be
taken by
Measurers
of Grain, and
Weighers of
Hay.]