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Penalty for buying or selling casks of butter otherwise than as herein directed.
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19. And . . . that all and every person or persons who shall either buy or sell any cask or casks of butter at any greater or less tare, or shall take or give any greater or less quantity or allowance than the tare and allowance for soakage [Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 35. (S.L.R.)] branded on such cask or casks of butter, or who shall buy or sell any cask or casks of butter by hand and not by weight, such person or persons so buying or selling at a greater or less quantity or tare, or allowance for soakage [Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 35. (S.L.R.)] than as aforesaid, notwithstanding any contract between the person or persons so selling and the person or persons so buying by hand and not by weight, on being convicted thereof before the mayor of any city, chief magistrate of any town corporate, or a justice of the peace of the county where there is a seaport or place of export, or market town as aforesaid, and where such offence shall be committed, as the case may be, by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, or affirmation of a Quaker (which oath or affirmation every such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice of the peace aforesaid, as the case may happen to be, is hereby empowered and required to administer, or on the confession of the party or parties before such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be), shall each of them forfeit the sum of ten shillings for every such cask of butter so bought or sold by hand as aforesaid, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice of the peace aforesaid, as the case may be, (which warrant every such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice as aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby empowered and required to issue); and if in case such offender or offenders shall not have goods and chattels sufficient to answer and satisfy such penalty or penalties, such offender or offenders shall by warrant under the hand and seal of such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be (which warrant every such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice as aforesaid is hereby empowered and required to issue), be committed to the gaol of such city, town corporate, or county at large, as the case may be, there to remain without any bail or mainprize for a space of time not exceeding one month, or less than one week, at the discretion of such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid before whom such conviction shall be had.
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