077
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No
77
OF INSPECTORS OF WEIGHTS AND
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lVI1'AeURES IN _TI:!.1'--º.9'yN'r:ç OF EW IN
"TO REGULATE THE DUTIES
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Passed 16 November 1859
WHEREAS by the two hundred and seventy-fourth
section of the Municipal Institutions Act of Upper Canada,
the Council of every County, City and Town is authorized
to pass By--Laws for appointing Inspectors to regulate
Weights and Measures according to the lawful standard.
For visiting all places wherein Weights and
steelyards or weighing machines of any de scrip-
used.
Measures
tion are
not ac-
such as are
For seizing and destroying
the standard and
cording to
For imposing.and collecting penalties upon
persons who are found in possession of unjust weights
measures, steelyards or other weighing machines
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Municipal Coun-
cil of the Corporation of the County of Elgin by virtue
of the authority aforesaid.
AND BE IT enacted that the Inspectors of Weights
and Measures in the County of Elgin shall have charge of
the Standard Weights and Measures within their respective
divisions and be the Inspectors of Weights and Measures
within the same. Provided always that the Inspector or
Inspectors appointed or to be appointed as aforesaid be-
fore or immediately upon entering upon the duties of his
office shall take and subscribe the following oath.
I,._____.________ _ ____. do hereby
promise and swear that I will carefully preserve all such
Weights and Measures as shall be given me in charge or
for my use as Inspector, as a standard for the County of
Elgin and that I will honestly and faithfully discharge
the duties of Inspector of Weights and Measures for the
Division in such County to which I have been appointed
according to the true intent and meaning of the laws in
force to the best of my abilities and knowledge and shall
deliver them over to my successor in office duly appointed
for that purpose when required to do so.
So help me God.
(Cont'd)
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77
No
By-.Law
AND BE IT enacted that it shall be the duty of
each Inspector at all proper times and when application
shall be made to him for that purpose carefully to ex-
amine and compare any and all Weights and Measures which
shall be presented to him for that purpose within his
Division as such Inspector with the standard provided
by law and when found of the true Weight and Measure to
mark, stamp or brand the same (if a measure as near the
two ends, top and bottom as may be) with the stamp or
brand provided for that purpose or with the initials
of the then reigning Sovereign.
AND BE IT enacted that it shall be the duty
of each Inspector of Weights and Measures to attend with
the stamps and copies of such Standard Weights and Measures
in his custody at the times and at the places hereinafter
mentioned to examine and compare and stamp if found cor-
rect all such Weights and Measures as shall be brought to
him for that purpose and that every storekeeper, shop-
keeper, miller, distiller, butcher, broker, huckster or
other trading person or forwarder within his Division who
shall two months after notice of the appointments of said
Inspectors as herein mentioned use any Weight or Measure
which has not been duly stamped according to Law or which
shall be found light or otherwise unjust shall on convic-
tion forfeit a sum of not more than five dollars nor less
than one dollar to be recovered before any Justice of the
Peace on the Oath of the Inspector or other credible wit-
ness and shall if not forthwith paid be levied by distress
and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender and in
default of distress such offender shall be committed to the
common gaol of the County wherein such conviction shall take
place for a term not exceeding eight days.
AND BE IT enacted that it shall be lawful for
every such Inspector at all reasonable times to enter any
shop, store, warehouse and all places wherein Weights
and Measures, steelyards or weighing machines of any des-
cription are used and there to examine all Weights, Measures,
steelyards or other weighing machines and to compare and try
the same with the copies of the Standard Weights and Mea-
sures provided by law and if upon examination it shall ap-
pear that the said Weights or Measures or either of them
are unstamped or are light or otherwise unjust the same
shall be liable to be seized and forfeited.
AND BE IT enacted that for every weight, weighing
machine or measure, marked or stamped by any such Inspector
he shall be entitled to demand and receive ten cents and no
more
Cont'd)
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AND BE IT enacted that every such Inspector
shall give one months notice in one or more newspapers
of the Division in which he is acting, from time to time
of the different days and places he will be in atten-
dance with said Weights and Measures which appointments
shall be as follows -
For the Western Division -
§-1~ho~a?~ Port Stanley, ~~~~l, 10n~ during the months
of Je,nu~D': and Februar...:¿.
And for the Eastern Division -
.§partª" Vi§.nn~ Por"L..Burwell, ê.traJ.fordviJ.le, ful:lme£
and 1~~£ during the months of ~arch and ßQfi~ in each
year and it shall be the duty of each Inspector after
his appointments as aforesaid have been fulfilled to
carefully pack and forward said Weights and Measures
to the care of the Inspector of the adjoining Division
at the expense of the County; the Treasurer of the said
County if hereby required to pay for the conveyance of
the same reasonable charges thereon.
W. McKay Levi Fowler
County Clerl,
Warden
Read a first time 16th November 1859.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 16th November 1859.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time and passed November 16th 1859.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk