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A48998 Commune Concilium tentum in Camera Guildhall civitas London, die Mercurii, vicesimo tertio die Octobris, anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo septuagesimo secundo ... an Act for the Weighing of Goods at the King's Beam.; Act for the Weighing of Goods at the King's Beam City of London (England). 1672 (1672) Wing L2854K; ESTC R39348 4,082 3

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authorized and licensed by a Committee to be annually chosen by this Court which shall consist of three Aldermen and sir Commoners whereof three to be a Quorum one being an Alderman And if any person shall presume to act contrary hereunto in weighing of Goods at any other Beam or to keep use or exercise any Beam for weighing between Buyer and Seller of such Goods within the said City and Liberties thereof without being thereunto licensed and appointed as aforesaid such person or persons for every such Offence shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Four pounds and nineteen shillings Provided always and be it enaited by the Authority aforesaid that this Act or any thing herein contained shall not be construed or erpounded to debar or binder any Freeman or Freemen of the said City from using of his or their own Beam or Beams in his or their own House or Houses Shop or Shops Ware-house or Ware houses or elsewhere for the weighing of his or their own prover Goods or Merchandizes in such manner as hath heretofore been used and accustomed or to charge any Foreiner or Foreiners with any further or other Duties or Sums of money for or by reason of the weighing of his or their Wares Goods and Merchandizes at said Common Beam other than according to the several Rates hereafter mentioned and expressed any thing to the contrary in this or any former Act or Acts contained in any wise not withstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if at any time hereafter any person or persons Officer or Weigher employed or to be employed as aforesaid shall be accused and convicted before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the said City of false Weights or for Dishonesty or Vnfaithfulness in the Observance and due Performance of his or their Duty that then such person Officer or Weigher shall ipso facto be discharged of the said Office or Deputation them Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That an exact Register shall be kept in the said Office of all the Proceedings of Weighing between Buyers and Sellers that due Proof may be made thereof by the Person or Persons to be appointed for keeping of the same if occasion shall require And that the keeper of the said Register shall deliver unto the Buyer and Seller if thereunto required a true Copy of so much thereof as he or they are concerned in without any Fees or other Reward for the same And forasmuch as the Weigh-house before the late dreadful Fire which happened in London was and time out of mind hath been the Common Market appointed for the Buying and Selling of Hops within this City and the said Weigh-house was by the said Fire burnt and consumed by reason whereof the said Market hath been of late time discontinued but another Weigh-house more large and commodious for the reception of Hops hath since been built in or near Little Easte●…eap in the Ward of Billinsgate within the said City of L●…nd●… Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Weigh-house so built and situated and appointed shall from henceforth be and be deemed and used as and for the Common Office for Tronage and Weighing of all Goods and Merchandizes and also the Market aforesaid And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared That it is and shall be the Common Market for the buying and selling of all Hops of English Growth brought in by Foreiners and that no Hops of English Growth shall at any time hereafter be weighed by any of the Weighers of this City save at that Weigh-house only or by some of the Beams there and thereunto belonging And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Rates and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned shall be such for and recovered by Action of Debt to be commenced in the name of the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in any of the Courts of Record within the said City the one moiety whereof when recovered Charges of Suit being first deduited shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Hospital of St. Bertholomew London for the time being and the other moiety to such person or persons who shall sue for the same In which Action or Actions no Elloin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And that the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in all Suints to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act against any Offender or Offenders contrary to the same shall recover his reasonable Cost of Suit expended in and about the Prosecution thereof And if the Suit pass for the Defendant then such Defendant to recover his Cost And that the Chamberlain for the time being shall not have power to take less of any Offender or Offenders than herein is limited to be forfeited for every Offence Wagstaffe Printed by Andrew Clark Printer to Honourable City of LONDON at his House in Aldersgatestreet MDCLXXII