If any mealweigher, clerk of the market, or other perfon § 2. ASSIZE. price of appointed to make returns as aforefaid, fhall neglect, omit, Punishment or refufe, to do any thing by this act required to be done by of officers him, or fhall defignedly or knowingly make any falfe return; for default. or if any conftable or other peace officer fhall refuse or neglect to obey any warrant in writing, delivered to him under the hand and feal of any magiftrate or juftice, or to do any other act requifite to be done by him for carrying this act into execution, he shall forfeit not exceeding 51. nor lefs than 205. If any buyer or feller of, or dealer in, corn, grain, Buyer or meal, or flour, on reafonable request to him made by the feller to demealweighers of the city of London, or by the clerks of the clare the market or other perfon refpectively appointed to make re- corn. turns as aforefaid, fhall refufe to disclose and make known. to them the true real prices which the several forts of grain, meal, and flour, fhall be bona fide bought at or fold by or for him, at any corn-market, or other place where corn, grain, meal, or flour, is ufually openly or publicly fold; or fhall knowingly give in any falfe or untrue price, or which hath been made by any deceitful means; he fhall, on conviction thereof, by confeffion, or oath of one witness, or affirmation of a quaker, forfeit not more than 1ol. nor lefs than 40s. If any court, magiftrate, or juftices, who fhall Magiftrates have ordered any return to be made as aforefaid, fhall, with- for them. in three days after fuch return, fufpect that the fame was not truly and bona fide made, they may fummon before them any perfon who fhall have bought or fold, or agreed to buy or fell any grain, meal, or flour, within their respective jurifdictions, or who fhall be thought to be likely to give any information concerning the premises; and may examine them upon oath, touching the rates and prices which the feveral forts of grain, meal, and flour, or any of them, were really and bona fide bought at, or fold for, or agreed fo to be, by him, at any time within feven days preceding such sum may fend & 2. ASSIZE. Baker of of other mons. And if any person be fummoned shall neglect or re fuse to appear (proof of fuch fummons being made upor oath); or if any perfon fo fummoned shall appear, and neglect or refuse to answer fuch lawful questions touching the premises as fhall be propofed to him, without fome juft or reasonable excufe to be allowed by fuch court, magiftrate, of justices; he fhall, on conviction by oath of one witness, or by confession, forfeit not exceeding 10l. nor less than 40s. And if any perfon fo examined fhall wilfully forswear himfelf, he fhall fuffer as in cafes of perjury.-Provided, that the party fummoned be not obliged to travel above five miles from the place of his abode 2. WHENEVER any court, magistrate, or justices, as afore. bread made faid, fhall order any bread to be made with the flour or meal of any other grain than wheat, or to be mixed with the flour grain than wheat fhall of wheat, or to be made with the flour or meal of any other conform to forts of grain, either separate or mixed together; all perfons the affize. mixed bread. who fhall make any bread for fale, in any place where fuch order fhall be made, fhall make bread with such mixed meal or flour, in fuch manner, and of fuch weight and goodness, and shall fell the fame at fuch prices, as fuch court, magiftrate, or juftices, refpectively, fhall direct; on pain of forfeiting not more than 51. nor lefs than 40s b. Regulations AND whereas it is expedient, in order to diminish the by 36 Geo. III, c. 22, confumption of wheat, that bakers fhould be permitted to for making make and fell mixed bread, which they cannot now do in places where an affize is fet: and whereas it is not expedient to apply to fuch forts of bread the restrictions in the tables of the affize and price of bread now established. It is enacted, that any perfon in any place whatfoever, whether any afsize of bread has been fet or not, may make and fell peck, half peck, quartern, and half quartern, loaves, made of the ASSIZE. whole produce of wheat, deducting only 5 lb. of bran per $2 WHEATEN bread of an inferior quality to the affized bread, must be marked with a large roman H; and mixed bread with a large roman X'. IF any perfon omit to imprint, or diftinctly mark, the Marking. bread, in terms of the act, or shall not well make, or shall adulterate it with any mixture or ingredient, not allowed to be used in the making of bread; or shall sell peck, half peck, Penalty for quartern, half quartern, or other loaves deficient in weight, according to the affize of fuch denominations, respectively, ing, he fhall be liable to the like pains specified in the ftatute for or adulter fuch offences. See 31 Geo. II, c. 29. PROVIDED that this act shall not affect the rights of the bakers company in London. fuch wheat taken therefrom," at b 41 Geo. III, (U. K.) c. 12, § 2. H ation. ASSIZE. True mak THE feveral forts of bread which fhall be made for fale, or fold, or expofed to or for fale, fhall always be well made, ing of bread and in their several and refpective degrees, according to the goodness of the feveral forts of meal or flour whereof the fame ought to be made; and no allum, or preparation or mixture in which allum fhall be an ingredient, or any other ingredient or mixture whatsoever (except only the genuine meal or flour which ought to be put therein, and common falt, pure water, eggs, milk, yeaft, and barm, or fuch leaven as fhall be allowed to be put therein by those who have fet the affize, and where no aflize fhall be fet, then fuch leaven as any magiftrate or justice within his jurifdiction fhall allow to be used in making of bread), fhall be put into, or in anywife used in making dough, or any bread to be fold, or as or for leaven to ferment any dough, or on any other ac count, in the trade or mystery of making bread, under any colour or pretence whatsoever; on pain that every perfon (other than a fervant or journeyman) who shall knowingly offend in the premises, and fhall be convicted hereof by confeffion, or oath of one witnefs, before any fuch magi. ftrate or justice, respectively, shall forfeit not more than 10l nor less than 40s.; or fhall, by warrant of fuch magiftrat or justice, be apprehended and committed to the house of correction, or some prison of the county, city, town-corporate, borough, riding, divifion, or place, where the offence fhall have been committed, or the offender fhall be appre hended, there to remain and be kept to hard labour, for any time not exceeding one kalendar month, nor less than te days, from the time of such commitment, as fuch magiftrat or justice shall think fit. And if any fervant or journeyma baker fhall knowingly offend in the premises, and be con victed thereof as aforefaid, he fhall forfeit not more than 5 nor less than 20s. or fhall in like manner be committed t the house of correction or prifon, as aforefaid. And it fhal be lawful for the magiftrate or justice, before whom fuc offender fhall be convicted, out of the money forfeited, whet $2. recovered, to cause the offender's name, place of abode, and offence, to be published in fome newspaper, which fhall be printed or published in or near the county, city, or place, where any fuch offence shall have been committed a. ASSIZE. No perfon fhall knowingly put into any corn, meal, or Adulterat flour, which fhall be ground, dreffed, bolted, or manufactur- ing meal. ed for fale, either at the time of grinding, dreffing, bolting, or in anywife manufacturing the fame, or at any other time, any ingredient, mixture, or other thing whatsoever; or shall knowingly fell, offer, or expofe to fale, any meal or flour of any fort of grain, as or for the meal or flour of any other fort of grain, or any thing as or for or mixed with the meal or flour of any grain which fhall not be the real and genuine meal or flour of the grain the fame fhall import to be and ought to be; on pain of forfeiting not more than 51. nor lefs than 40s. mixtures of No perfon fhall knowingly put into any bread which shall Undue be made for fale, any mixture of meal or flour of any other meal. fort of grain than of the grain the fame fhall import to be, and fhall be allowed to be made of, in pursuance of this act; or fhall put into any bread which fhall be made for fale, any larger or other proportion of any other or different fort of grain, or the meal or flour thereof, than what shall be appointed or allowed to be put therein by this act; or any mixture or thing as, for, or in lieu of flour, which fhall not really be the genuine flour the fame fhall import to be and ought to be, on pain of forfeiting not more than 51. nor less than 20s. IF any perfon who fhall make any bread for fale, or who Penalty for deficiency in weight. $23. § 22. 31 Geo. II, c. 29, $ 21. |