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Casks of butter bought by weighmasters, &c. or persons in their employment, shall be forfeited, or the value thereof.
No publican or cooper to be a weighmaster, &c.
Weighmasters, &c. may have one cask for family use.
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21. And . . . that no weighmaster or weighmasters, his or their deputy or deputies, taster or tasters, or any cooper or other person employed in any weigh-house aforesaid, or any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, shall buy, sell, contract, or treat for any cask or casks of butter; and in case any weighmaster or weighmasters, his or their deputy or deputies, taster or tasters, such cooper or other person so employed in any such weigh-house or weigh-houses, or any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, shall buy, sell, contract, or treat for any cask or casks of butter, the said weighmaster or weighmasters, his or their deputy or deputies, taster or tasters, such cooper or other person so employed in any of the said weigh-houses, being thereof convicted before the mayor of any city, chief magistrate of any town corporate, or a justice of the peace for the county where such place of export or market town shall lie, and where such offence shall be so committed, as the case may be, on the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, or affirmation if a Quaker (which oath or affirmation every such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice of the peace aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby empowered and required to administer), shall forfeit the butter so bought, sold, or contracted for by him, them, or any of them, or by any person in trust for him, them, or any of them, or the value thereof, to be recovered in like manner as the penalty for buying butter by hand and not by weight as herein directed; and that no person who keeps a public house, nor any cooper during the time such cooper shall exercise and follow the trade or mystery of a cooper, or shall employ any apprentice or other person in making casks for packing up butter for his use or in trust for him, shall be capable of being a weighmaster or deputy weighmaster for weighing of butter within the meaning of this Act, any thing in this Act or any former law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall preclude such weighmaster or weighmasters, his or their deputy or deputies, taster or tasters, or such cooper or other person, from purchasing or having in his possession one cask of butter at a time, not exceeding eighty-four pounds gross weight, for the use of his or their family or families, and no more.
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