| 1771.
CHAP.
XX.
Flour to be
made merchantable,
&c. |
21 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
V. And be it
further enacted, That all bolted wheat flour, and every cask
thereof, brought to the said town or Fell's-point for exportation, from
and after
the first day of December next, shall, by the bolters thereof, be made
merchantable
and of due fineness, without any mixture of coarser or other flour, and
well
packed in good strong well seasoned casks, with the tare thereof marked
thereon. |
Penalty on
bolters putting
a wrong
tare on any
cask of flour. |
VI. And be it
further enacted, That if any bolter shall put a false or wrong
tare on any cask of flour, more than one pound weight to the disadvantage
of the
purchaser, such bolter shall forfeit and pay, for every such cask wrongfully
or
falsely tared as aforesaid, the sum of ten shillings current money, and
the inspector,
upon his suspicion, or upon the request of the buyer, shall uncase or unpack
any
such cask of flour, in order to try the tare thereof; and if the said cask
or casks be
found to be tared more than one pound less than the true weight, the bolter
thereof
shall pay the charge and expence of unpacking or uncasing, and repacking
or recasing,
over and above the sum of ten shillings current money, for each cask as
aforesaid;
but if the weight of the same if not more than one pound less than the
tare
thereon marked, then the inspector or purchaser, at whose request such
trial be
made, shall pay the costs of unpacking or uncasing, and repacking or recasing. |
Occupiers of
mills to make
a manifest,
&c. |
VII. And,
whereas many persons carry their wheat to the mills to be ground
and manufactured into flour, and packed in barrels for sale, Be
it further enacted,
That every occupier of a mill, who shall grind and manufacture wheat into
such mill, shall make out, subscribe and deliver, to the person authorised
and empowered
to take and carry away the said flour, manufactured and packed in barrels
as aforesaid, a manifest of the gross, tare and net weights of such flour;
and if any
occupier of a mill shall neglect to make out, subscribe and deliver, to
such person
authorised and empowered as aforesaid, the manifest hereby directed, shall
forfeit
any pay five shillings current money for every barrel of flour which he
shall neglect
to give such manifest for. |
Penalty on
persons offering
flour for
sale less than
the weight
specified, &c. |
VIII. And be
it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall, after the
first
day of January next ensuing, sell or offer for sale, at Baltimore-town
or at Fell's-point,
any flour, the weight whereof, upon weighing the same, shall be found under
or less than the weights at which the flour shall be offered for sale,
or less
than the weights contained in the manifest offered and produced by the
seller or
deliverer, as the true weights of the same flour, he or they shall forfeit
and pay,
for every pound weights of flour so found under or less than the weights
alleged or
contained in the manifest, four-pence current money, provided the true
weight of
such flour, upon weighing the same, shall be found only five pounds under
or less
than the weight alleged or contained in such manifest; but if the same
flour, upon
weighing the same, shall be found to fall short or the weight alleged or
contained
in the manifest, more than the quantity of five pounds, then, and in that
case, for
every pound weight so found under or less than the weight alleged or contained
in
the manifest, the person or persons selling or offering the same flour
for sale, shall forfeit
and pay the sum of four shillings current money; and the inspector of flour
is
hereby obliged and required, upon request of either the buyer or seller
of flour, to
weight any flour sold or offered for sale at any of the places above mentioned,
and
shall be entitled to demand and receive for weighing the same, of the person
or
persons, who, upon weighing the flour, shall be found to have been in default,
the sum of four-pence current money for each barrel that shall have been
weighed; and if the manifest made out, subscribed and delivered, by any
occupier
of a mill, shall exceed the real gross, tare and net weight of the flour
mentioned
in the said manifest, and the person owning the same shall incur and be
obliged to
pay the penalty or penalties aforesaid, for short weight, that then, and
in such case,
the said owner shall be, and is hereby entitled to a recovery of the said
penalty or
penalties against the occupier of the mill who made out, subscribed
and delivered,
such false manifest, which recovery shall be had in the same manner as
penalties
are herein directed to be recovered. |
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