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And deposited.

3. Such Copies or Models, after having been so verified, approved, and marked, shall be deposited with such persons as the Governor shall for that purpose appoint, and shall by them respectively be safely kept for the purpose of reference as hereinafter directed.

And verified every five years.

4. Such persons as aforesaid shall, at least, once in every five years bring and present, or forward, all such Copies and Models to be compared and verified with the Standard Weights and Measures so to be deposited as aforesaid; and unless such Copies and Models be so from time to time verified, the same shall be insufficient for conviction on charges of use of false Weights and Measures.

If destroyed to be replaced.

5. In case any of the said Standard Weights or Measures, or of the Copies or Models thereof shall be lost, destroyed, defaced, or otherwise injured, another Weight or Measure shall be provided with the approbation of the Governor, of the same weight or measure as the Weight or Measure so lost, destroyed, defaced, or otherwise injured, and the same shall thereupon be deemed to be a true and genuine Weight or Measure to all such and the like intents and purposes, as the Weight or Measure which would have been lost, destroyed, defaced, or injured.

To be accessible to the public for comparison.

6. Any person who may be desirous of comparing or adjusting any Weights or Measures shall have access to all such Copies or Models so to be deposited, as aforesaid, at all reasonable times, on payment of such fees as are hereinafter mentioned; and it shall be the duty of the respective persons to be appointed by the Governor as aforesaid, for the safe keeping of such Copies or Models of the Standard Weights and Measures, for the purposes of reference to compare every such Weight or Measure as shall be brought before them respectively, with such Copies or Models, as aforesaid.

7. For every such examination of any such Weights and Measures the person authorised, as aforesaid, who shall make the same, shall be entitled to demand and receive of the person who shall cause the same to be made, the sum of Three-pence for every Weight or Measure so compared, and no more.

Weights, &c., brought to be compared, to be Stamped under certain Regulations.

8. Every person to be appointed by the Governor, as aforesaid, for the safe keeping of approved Copies and Models, shall on every Weight and Measure by him compared and found true, affix a proper mark or stamp to be in that behalf appointed by the Governor, and such person and all other persons acting in the execution of this Ordinance, shall observe and conform to the following regulations, viz:—

9. No weight and measure shall be stamped or marked unless it express the same denomination of weight or measure as one of the Standards.

10. No unstamped and unmarked weight or measure shall be legal for the purposes of sale, or any other commercial transaction, excepting glass vessels, earthenware vessels, and casks.

11. Every iron weight shall have only one leaden plug for adjustment, as little larger on the surface than the appointed stamp or mark, as may be practically necessary to receive its impression.

12. Every weight shall be distinctly marked with words or figures, denoting the value of weight which it professes to represent.

13. Every measure of capacity or length, made of wood or metal shall be distinctly marked with words or figures denoting the capacity or length which it professes to represent.

14. Every false weight, weighing machine, or measure, in the possession of any tradesman or other person, shall render him liable to a separate penalty.

Weights not to be made of Lead or Pewter.

9. And whereas the use of Weights made of soft materials affords facility to fraud, no Weights made of lead or pewter,