Every person shall, upon his appointment, take an Oath well and faithfully to execute the office in him reposed by virtue of such appointment, which Oath any Justice of the Peace is hereby empowered to administer. Provided always, that no maker or seller of Weights or Measures, or person employed in the making or selling thereof, shall be appointed an Inspector of Weights and Measures under the provisions of this Ordinance.

17. Every Inspector shall, upon his appointment, forthwith give security to the satisfaction of the Governor for the due and punctual performance of the duties of his office, and for the safety of the Stamps and Copies of the Standard Weights and Measures committed to his charge, and for their due restoration and surrender to such persons as may be appointed to receive them by the Governor, or other person or persons by whom he may have been appointed in manner aforesaid; immediately on his removal or other cessation from office.

Power to Inspectors to enter into Shops, &c.

18. It shall be lawful for such Inspector to enter in the day time any shop, house, mill, store or out-house, or other places near to such shop, house, mill, store, or out-house, and enter into or inspect the stall or standing place of any person or persons within his district, who shall sell by retail and by weight or measure any wares, provisions, goods or merchandise, or any liquid, or dry goods, or other articles whatsoever, and into the cart, wheelbarrow, or basket of any hawker or vendor of any such articles, and then and there to search for, view, and examine all balances and all weights and measures of length and capacity therein.

And to seize false and unstamped Weights, &c.

19. It shall also be lawful for such Inspector to seize any false balance and any false or unstamped Weights or Measures, not being according to the Standards, or the Copies or Models thereof, and not being duly stamped or marked as hereinafter provided, which shall be found upon any such search as aforesaid, and to detain the same, to be produced before any two or more Justices of the Peace; and such Justices are hereby authorised and required to enquire into, hear, and determine in a summary way all informations matters, and things touching such seizures, or in any wise relating thereto.

PENALTIES.

For injuring stamped Weights, &c.

20. If any person shall falsely or fraudulently injure any Copy or Model hereof be deposited, as aforesaid, every such offender shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of fifty pounds.

For refusing to compare Weights.

21. If any person to be appointed, as aforesaid, for the safe keeping of such Copies or Models, shall neglect or refuse to compare any Weights or Measures at all such reasonable times as he shall be thereto required, every person so offending shall, if to the convicting Justices it shall seem fit, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Ten pounds, nor less than Ten shillings.

For having in possession false or unstamped Weights.

22. Every person in whose house, shop, mill, store, out-house, premises, stall, or standing place, cart, wheelbarrow, or basket any false or deficient balance, or unstamped or unmarked weight or measure, shall be found upon any such search, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every such balance, weight or measure, any sum not exceeding Ten pounds, nor less than Five shillings as to the convicting Justices shall seem meet. And all such false or deficient, unstamped, or unmarked weights and measures shall, upon the conviction of any such person, be forfeited, and shall be broken or otherwise disposed of, as such Justices shall direct.

For obstructing Inspectors.

23. If any person shall wilfully obstruct, hinder, resist, or in any wise oppose any person appointed under the authority hereof, to view and examine such balances, weights, and measures in the execution of his office, or if any person selling or retailing by weight or measure, shall refuse to produce his balances, weights, or measures, in order to be viewed or examined, every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty pounds, nor less than forty shillings, as the convicting Justices shall adjudge.

24. If any person shall bargain, sell or deliver in payment, barter, or exchange any goods, wares, or 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 herein excepted), or shall so bargain, sell or deliver by any false or deficient balance, weight, or measure, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Ten pounds, nor less than Ten shillings.