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allowed by law, and the said oath, or affirmation, shall be adminis-
tered by the said commissioners, or any one of them, and the tak-
ing thereof be entered among their proceedings.
9. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the said market shall have
sufficient power and authority, at all times thereafter, to take care
and charge of the said market-house, and of the market thereof,
and to examine and inspect the victuals and provisions brought
thereto for sale.; to examine and try the weight of any butter
brought to the said market, previously made up in prints or par-
cels, and if the same shall not he found of the weight pretended by
the person offering the same for sale, to seize and appropriate the
same to the use of the poor-house of said county, and if any shall
be found unsound or unwholesome, to seize and destroy the same;
and also to try and adjust the scales, weights and measures, used
at the said market, by the standards 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 at public sale to
the highest bidder, and to account for the money arising from those
sales with the said commissioners; and if any person shall think
himself aggrieved by any seizure made by the clerk of said mar-
ket, he may appeal within three days to the commissioners of said
town for redress, or any one of them, and he or they shall have
power and authority to make such order therein as they may
deem just and proper.
10. And be it enacted, That the said market-house, and the
stalls, shambles, issues, and appertenances thereof, shall be and
the same are hereby vested in the said commissioners and their
successors, for the use and in trust for the benefit and advantage
of the inhabitants of the said town; and the clerk of the said mar-
ket shall have full power, under the direction of the said commis-
sioners, to rent and hire out the stalls and shambles of the said
market-house upon the best terms, and to keep a fair and just ac-
count, as well of the persons renting as of the profits arising from
such rents, and to render duplicates of such accounts to the said
commissioners, annually, on the first Monday of April, or oftener
if he shall be required, and the said rents and profits shall be paid
to the order of the said commissioners, and be applied to the uses
directed by this act; and in default of payment the sarnie shall be
recovered in the name of the said commissioners, of any tenant or
person refusing or delaying to pay the same, by the warrant of a
justice of the peace, as in the case of recovering small debts be-
fore a magistrate; and the clerk of the said market shall be allow-
ed a reasonable compensation for his services not exceeding the
sum of fifteen pounds current money by the year, to be ascertain-
ed by the commissioners, and to be proportionably assessed and
levied upon the inhabitants and owners of property in the said
town, according to the respective valuations herein before directed
to be made.
11. And be it enacted, That the eleventh section of the act to
which this is a supplement, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and fifteen, chapter seventy-three, and the supplement to
said act passed at December session eighteen hundred and sixteen,
chapter one hundred and thirty-five, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
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Dec. Ses. 1817.
Powers of
clerk.
House, &c.
vested in com-
missioners &c.
Part of an act
repealed.
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