or of any mixture thereof, shall be stamped or used: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of lead or pewter, or of any mixture thereof, in the manufacture of Weights, if they be wholly and substantially cased with brass, copper, or iron, and be legibly stamped or marked "cased," or shall prevent the insertion of such a plug of lead or pewter into Weights as shall be bona fide necessary for the purpose of adjusting them, or of fixing thereon the stamps hereinbefore mentioned.

II.—TRUE AND STAMPED WEIGHTS, &c., ONLY TO BE USED.

Goods not to be sold by false or unstamped Weights, &c.

10. It shall not be lawful for any person to bargain, sell, or deliver in payment, barter, or exchange any goods, wares, merchandise, or other thing, by any other Weights or Measures than by such as shall agree with the said Standard Weights or Measures, or the Copies or Models thereof, as aforesaid, (except as hereinafter excepted), nor so to bargain, sell or deliver by any steel-yard or spring balance, or by any unstamped or unmarked Weight or Measure. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall apply to contracts or bargains for the sale, exchange, or delivery of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other things, bona fide entered into before this Ordinance shall come into operation; but that all goods, wares, merchandise, and other things so contracted and bargained for as last aforesaid, may be sold and delivered according to the ratio or proportion which the Weights and Measures in use in the Colony at the time such contracts or bargains shall have been made, shall bear to the Standard Weights and Measures established by this Ordinance.

Goods sold by Measure to be stricken off.

11. In every sale, barter, or exchange, of any goods or things by measure, (except as hereinafter mentioned) the measure shall be stricken off with a round stick, straight, and of the same diameter from end to end.

The Heaped Measure abolished.

12. And whereas, the heaped measure is liable to considerable variation; Be it therefore enacted, That the heaped measure shall be abolished, and all bargains, sales, and contracts which shall be made by the heaped measure after this Ordinance shall have come into operation, shall be null and void.

Articles heretofore sold by heaped measure how to be sold.

13. And whereas some articles heretofore sold by heaped measure are, from their size and shape, incapable of being stricken, and from their nature and quality may not conveniently be sold by weight: Be it therefore enacted, That all such articles may henceforth be sold by a bushel measure, or by any multiple or by some aliquot part fitted in all parts as nearly to the level of the brim as the size and shape of the article sold will admit. Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the sale by weight of any article heretofore sold by heaped measure.

Ordinance not to apply to sale of Medicines, &c.

14. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to extend or apply to the sale of Medicines or precious metals, precious stones, or to the Weights and Measures bona fide used for the sale thereof, and for no other purpose.

Not to Her Majesty’s Customs.

15. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed or taken to apply to the Weights and Measures now used by Her Majesty’s Officers in this Colony, for ascertaining any rates or duties payable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, upon the importation into the said Colony of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other things, or upon spirits distilled therein, unless Her Majesty’s pleasure shall be first heard and signified; and as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, it shall be lawful for the Governor to cause accurate Tables to be prepared and published, in order that the several rates and duties may be adjusted, and made payable according to the respective Standards of Weight and Measure to be established by this Ordinance, and immediately upon the publication of such tables the several rates and duties thereafter to be collected by Her Majesty’s said officers, shall be collected and taken according to the calculations in the tables so to be prepared and published as aforesaid.

III.—INSPECTORS.

Inspectors to be appointed.

16. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint fit persons who shall have power to examine balances, weights, and measures within the colony. Every