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 268 C 29.* Anno tricefinio primo Ge org 11 II. A. D. 1757, ders fhall be convi£led, {hall tliink. fit and order, every Time he, (lie or they, {hall fo cfFend, and be convicted. Where Bread fliall le XXIV. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Pcrfon or Perfons who made uncer Weight, £[^^|] make any Bread for Sale, or who fend out, or fell or expofe to or for Sale, any Bread, {hall at any Time from and after the faid twenty-ninth Day of Septe?7ibcr make, fend out, fell or expofe to or for Sale any Bread which {liall be deficient in Weight, according to the AfTize which (hall be fet the Offender forfeits not for any fuch Bread, from 'J'ime to Time to be fold at, in purfuance of this A6V, he, ihe or they fo exceeding 5 s. nor lefs oft'ending in the Premifles, and being thereof convicted in Manner herein after prefcribed of any fuch than IS. for every Ofifcnce, {hall forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding five Shillings, nor lefs than one Shilling, for Ounce lie cient. every Ouncc of Bread which {hall at any Time be wanting or deficient in the Weight every fuch and if under an Ounce, Loaf ought to be of ; and for cvery Loaf of Bread which fuall be found wanting lefs than an Ounce of notexceedng 2 s. 6 d. the Weight the fame ought to be of, a Sum not exceeding two Shillings and fix Pence, nor lefs than nor lefs thiij 6d. fj^ Pence; as any fuch Magiftrate or Magiftrates, Juftice or Juftices, before whom any fuch Bread which {hall not be of the due Weight the fame ought to be, {hall be brought, fhall think fit or order; provided fuch Bread com- fo as fuch Bread which {liall be complained of as wanting at any Time in the Weight the fame ought plained of, if in any City, to be of, in any City, Town Corporate, Borough, Liberty or Franchife, or the Jurifdi6tion thereof Town Corporate or Bo- or within the weekly Bills of Mortality, lliall from Time to Time be brought before fome Magi- 1°"° •' t, t, f h {Irate or Magiftrates, Juftice or Juftices, having Jurifdi6tion in the Premiil'es, and {hall be weighed Ma^^'ft^raif with?n 14 before fuch Magiftrate or Magiftrates, Juftice or Juftices, within twenty-four Hours after the fame Hours after the fame {hall have bccn baked, fold or expofed to or for Sale; and fo as fuch Bread which fhall be com- fhall be baked, fold or plained of as wanting at any Time in the Weight the fame ought to be of, in any Hundred, Riding, expoied to Sale ; Divifion, Liberty, Rape, XVapentake or Place, {liall from Time to Time be brought before fome and if in any Hundred, Jufticc or Juftices of the Peace of fuch Hundred, Riding, Divifion, Liberty, Rape or Wapentake, Hiding or Divifion, &c. ^j. otiiej- Place, and {hall be weighed before fuch Juftice or Juftices within three Days after the fame balct" or'sale thereof • ^^^^^ ^'^^'^ ^^^" baked, fold or expofed to or for Sale; unlefs it {hall be made out to the Satisfadtion Tf^f "^h Deficiency ' <^^ ^^V ^"^^ Magiftrate or Magiftrates, Juftice or Juftices, by or on the Behalf of the Party or Par- arofeVrom fome^^una- ties againft whom any fuch Complaint or Information {hall be made, that fuch Deficiency in Weight voidable Accident, or by wholly arofe from fomc unavoidable Accident in Baking or otherwife, or was occafioned by or Contrivance or Confece- through fome Contrivance or Confederacy. racy. All Bread made for Sale, XXV. And be It further ena(Sted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the faid twenty- is to be lairiy marked 5 j^jj^jj^ Day of Scpte7)iber every Perfon who fhall make for Sale, or fell, expofe, or fend out, to or for Sale, any Sort of Bread whatfoever, {hall, from Time to Time, caufe to be fairly imprinted or marked on every Loaf of each refpe£live Sort of Bread which he, {he or they, {hall make or fell, or carry out, or expofe to or for Sale, the Roman Letters herein after-mentioned ; that is to fay, the Wheaten Bread w'rh Upon every Loaf of Bread which {hall be made, fold, carried out, or expofed to or for Sale, as a large Roman W, and Wheatcn Bread, a large Roman. W; and upon every Loaf of Bread which {hall be made, fold, carried Houfliold with H, out or expofed to or for Sale, as Hou{hold or Brown Bread, a large Roman H ; and that every Perfon who {hall make for Sale, or {hall fell, carry out or expofe to or for Sale, any Loaf of any Sort of Bread, which fhall be allowed to be made in purfuance of this A61, which {hall not be in order to afcertain un- marked purfuant to the Dire6tioi;s of this A<St, fo as the fame may, on the View thereof, be afcer- der what Denomination tained, from Time to Time, under what Denomination or Sort of Bread every fuch Loaf was made, it was made, and ought ^j^ j ought to be Weighed (cxcept as to fuch Loaves which {hall be rafped after the befpeaking or to be wejg e, purchaiing thereof, by the particular Defire of any Perfon who {hall order the fame to be fo rafped, under Penalty not ex- for his, her or their ovvn Ufe or Ufes) {hall, for every Time he, {he or they, {hall offend in the ceeding 20s. nor lefs Premiftes, and be thereof convi6led in Manner herein after prefcribed, forfeit and pay a Sum not t***"5'' exceeding twenty Shillings, nor lefs than five Shillings, as any Magiftrate or Magiftates, Juftice or Juftices, before whom the Oft'ender {hall be convicted, {hall direct, for every Loaf of Bread not marked as hereby is directed. Bak?rs demanding or ta- XXVL And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the faid king a higher Price for twenty-ninth Davof September no Baker, or other Perfon or Perfon or Perfons {hall afk, demand Brfad, than vvhatthe ^^ take, for any Bread which he, {lie or they {hall fell, or expofe to or for Sale, any greater or thTAflize- higher Price than fuch Bread {hall be afcertained to be fold for or at by the Court, Magiftrate or ' Magiftrates, or Juftices, hereby authorized to fet the Price and Affize of Bread, within their re- or reiufingto fell to any fpedtivc J urifdidtions ; and that no Baker, or other Perfon who fhall make any Bread for Sale, {hall Peifonany of the Sorts refufe or decline to fell any Loave or Loaves of any of the Sorts of Bread which, in purfuance of this allowed or ordered to be ^£^^ ^-^^jj u,^ allowed or ordered to be made, to any Perfon or Perfons who Ihall tender ready Mo- ■"*'^'^» ney in Payment for the fame, at or for the Price fuch Bread, by the Aflize which, {liall have been fet in refpetSt thereof, {hall be fixed at, or afcertained to be fold for, when any fuch Baker, or other vhcnhe {hall have more i-*cTfon who fhall make Bread for Sale, {liall have any Loaf of any fuch Bread in his or their Houfe, thiois nccdfiry lorihc l^akthoufe. Shop or PoHcfTion to be fold, more than {hall be rc(|uifitefor the immediate neceflary Ufe lmme''i*«^Uf=^'^t^^h'3 ia- ^,f |-,j,^^ j^^.^ or their own Family orCuftomcrs ; and which it {hall be incumbent on fuch Baker, or other ^ **' " * Piifon who fliall he coir plained of, for rcfufing or declining to fell any fuch Bread, to prove before tlic Mi'giftrate or Magiftrates, Jufticc or JufUces, to whom any fuch Complaint fliall be made, if {or't" not exccding thcreunto required by the Party or Parties who fliall make any fuch Complaint; upon Pain that every 40*. iicilei»ihan 10s. Perfon who ihall be conviifttd of any fuch Ofl'cncc, in Manner herein after prefcribed, fhall forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeduig forty Shillings, iior lefs than ten Shillings, as the Magiftrate or Ma« I giftrateS|