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Casks not of the weight herein directed to be brought before mayor, &c.
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23. And . . . that if any weighmaster or weighmasters of any city, town corporate, place of export, or market town, his or their deputy or deputies, shall find on examination that any cask or casks for the packing of butter, which shall be brought to any of the weigh-houses aforesaid to be weighed or branded, is or are . . . . . . . . . . not of the weight herein mentioned and required, . . . . . . . . . . . that then it may and shall be lawful for said weighmaster or weighmasters, his or their deputy or deputies, to seize such cask or casks, and carry the same before the mayor of such city, chief magistrate of such town corporate, or a justice of the peace for the county in which such place of export or market town shall lie, as the case may be; which mayor, chief magistrate, or justice of the peace aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby empowered and required to enquire concerning the same; and if such cask or casks shall upon examination, inspection, or due proof before him appear . . . . . . . . . . not to be of the weight hereby required, . . . . . . . . . . he shall order such cask or casks to be sawed in two across; and if such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice of the peace aforesaid, as the case may be, shall be doubtful of the quality of such cask or casks, or if any of the parties concerned require the same, such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby empowered and required to summon, examine, and hear upon oath, or affirmation if a Quaker (which said oath or affirmation such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby empowered and required to administer), two able, disinterested, and impartial master coopers, in relation to the nature and quality of the same, that he may be better able to determine concerning the same.
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