in trust for the inhabitants of said town; and the clerk of the market
shall have
full power, under the direction of the said commissioners, to rent
and hire out
the said stalls and shambles, and shall keep a fair and just account,
as well
of the persons renting, as of the profits arising from such rents,
and shall render
duplicates of such accounts to the said commissioners annually, on
the first
Monday of April, or oftener if required; and the said rents and profits
shall be
paid to the order of the said commissioners, and shall be applied to
the uses directed
by this act; and the said clerk shall have a reasonable compensation
for
his services, to be ascertained by the said commissioners; and the
said clerk shall
have sufficient power and authority to take charge of the said market-house,
and
of the market thereof, and to examine and inspect the victuals and
provisions
brought thereto for sale, and if any shall be found unsound or unwholesome,
to
seize and destroy the same, and to examine and try the weight of any
butter
brought to the said market, and if the same shall not be found of the
weight
pretended by the person offering the same for sale, to seize the said
butter, and
to expose it to public sale, and also to try the weights, scales and
measures, used
at the said market, by the standard of the county, and if any weights
or measures
shall be false or untrue, to seize the same, and, on a just alteration
thereof, to
dispose of the same to the highest bidder, and to account for the money
arising
from those sales with the said commissioners.
XI. And be it
enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever, from and after
the first day of April next, shall presume to sell, barter or exchange,
any wine,
rum, brandy, whisky, or other distilled spirituous liquors, on the
public ground, or
at any place within the limits of the said town, under a penalty of
twenty shillings
for every offence; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall
be deemed
or taken in any manner to interfere with boarding houses, licensed
ordinary keepers,
or retailers of spirituous liquors, actually residing within the said
town.
XII. And be it enacted,
That the said commissioners shall appoint a person of
good repute to be word-corder of all firewood brought to the said town
for
sale, who, before he proceeds to act as such, shall make oath, or affirmation,
as the case may be, that he will, according to the best of his skill
and judgement,
perform the duties of a wood-corder in the said town, without favour,
partiality or prejudice; and that from and after the first day of September
next,
all firewood brought to the town for sale, shall be set up, corded
and measured
buy the wood-corder appointed as aforesaid; and that each cord of wood
shall be
eight feet in length, four feet in width, four feet in height, and
close stowed
and well packed; and that the said wood-corder, for his trouble in
cording the
same, shall have and receive the sum of ten cents, one half thereof
to be paid
by the buyer, and the other half by the seller.
XIII. And be
it enacted, That if any person shall purchase or buy any firewood
brought to the said town, and shall neglect or refuse to have the same
corded and measured by the wood-corder appointed in pursuance of this
act,
such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings current
money for
every cord so purchased and bought, or which he shall refuse to omit
to request
the said corder to cord, in pursuance of this act; and the said wood-corder
shall
cord and measure all such firewood as he shall be required to cord
and measure,
when reasonably requested thereto, under the penalty of ten shillings
for
every such neglect or refusal.
XIV. And be it
enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons
to suffer to run at large within the limits of the said town any goose,
geese or
swine; and if any goose, geese or swine, shall be found running at
large within
the limits of the said town, it shall be lawful for the bailiff of
the said town,
or of nay other person or persons belonging to the sid town in case
of his absence,
and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to seize all and every
such
goose, or geese and swine, and to impound the same; and the sid bailiff
shall
immediately, by public advertisement, give notice of the impounding
of such
goose, geese or swine, and of the owner or owners shall not, within
three days
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CHAP.
XVIII.
Penalty for
selling wine,
&c.
A wood-corder
to be appointed,
&c.
Penalty for
neglecting to
have wood
corded, &c.
Geese, &c
going at large
may be
seized, &c. |
