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292 Sect.

11.

Sale and Adulteration.

A

penalty of ^20

is

imposed on any person marking on any bag

a false description, symbol, or trade mark(e), or mixing hops of different qualities so that the bulk differs from sample, unless intent to defraud is disproved (/) or selling or exposing for sale hops in bags not marked or improperly marked, unless under a hofid fide belief that the bags were duly marked {g), or wilfully altering or defacing marks on bags with intent to deceive {li). A penalty of d610 is imposed on any person rebagging foreign hops as British hops (i). vendor of hops in marked bags is to be deemed to contract that the description etc. is genuine {k). No action or proceeding for a penalty may be taken but within three years after the offence, or one year after the discovery thereof, if not discovered within the three years (Z). ,

Penalties.

A

Sub-Sect. Killing

and

dyeing seeds.

4.

Beeds.

647. Every person who fraudulently kills or dyes or causes to be killed or dyed any seeds, or sells or causes to be sold any killed or dyed seeds, is liable on summary conviction for a first offence to a penalty of ^85, and for any subsequent offence to a penalty of d650 and publication of the particulars of his offence at the offender's expense in any newspapers {m). To "kill" seeds is to destroy their germinating power by artificial means. "Dyeing" seeds means applying to seeds any process of colouring, dyeing, or sulphur smoking {n). A prosecution for selling or causing to be sold killed or dyed seeds must be commenced within twenty-one days after the offence and it is not necessary to prove an intent to defraud any particular person (o).

Sect. 12. Weighing markets.

in

Sale of Cattle hy Weight,

of every market or fair at which tolls taken in respect of cattle, unless exempted by order of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, must provide and maintain suitable and sufficient accommodation for the weighing of cattle. Every "Cattle" includes rams, ewes, wethers, lambs, and swine. person selling, offering for sale, or buying any cattle in a market or fair where there is such weighing accommodation may require such cattle to be so weighed on payment of the toll therefor, and is entitled to have delivered to him a ticket specifying the true weight of the cattle weighed

648. The market authority

(e) Hop (Prevention of Frauds) Act, 1866 (29 (/) Ibid., s. 5.

(g)

Ibid.,

&

30 Yict.

c. 37), s. 4.

s. 6.

(h) Ibid., s. 8. (i)

Ibid.,

s. 7.

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lbid.,s. 18. (0 Ibid., s. 17. (m) Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Yict. c. 112), ss. 3, 4. (n) Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Yict. c. 17). (o) Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Yict. c. 112), ss. 5, 7. (j)) Markets and Pairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Yict. c. 27), amended by Markets and Pairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Yict. Per a complete account of these Acts, see title Markets and c. 70). {k)

Faies.