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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05191	Act for selling of meal by weight. Edinburgh, the twenty fifth day of September 1696.	Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.; Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693.	1696 (1696)	Wing S1101A; ESTC R183904	710	1

ACT For Selling of Meal by Weight Edinburgh the Twenty Fifth Day of September 1696. OUR SOVERAIGN LORD and the ESTATES of PARLIAMENT Considering the many Abuses committed in the Measuring of Meal in several Parts of this Kingdom and that these Abuses may be Obviat by Selling of Meal by Weight Do for remeid thereof Statute and Ordain That from and after the first Day of January next to come all sorts of Meal Bought and Sold within this Kingdom shall be Sold and Delivered by Weight at Light Stone Trois Weight in place of the Boll of Lithgow Measure and so proportionally under the Pain of Confiscation of all Meal Sold otherways than is hereby Appointed and Imprisonment of the Seller thereof for a Week toties quoties Declaring hereby that the Meal so Confiscat shall immediatly Belong to the first Informer and Requiring all Sheriffs Stewarts Paillies of Regalities Royalties or Baronies all Magistrats of Royal Burrows Justices of Peace and all other Judges whatsomever to cause put this ACT to all due Execution against the Contraveeners within their respective Bounds Certifying all such Judges Magistrats or others foresaids who after due Information thereof shall Neglect to Execute the same by Delivering the said Meal to the first Informer and Imprisoning the Seller in manner foresaid that they shall be Lyable to the said Informer in the double of the Value of all Meal which shall be Sold within their Bounds otherways than is Appointed by this ACT Reserving their Releif from the particular Transgressors in sua far as extends to the single Value thereof allanerly Likeas HIS MAJESTY with Advice and Consent foresaid hereby Revives Ratifies and Confirms all former Acts made anent the sufficiency of Meal and Ordains the same to be put to all due Execution Extracted furth of the Records of Parliament by me Alexander Gibson one of the Principal Clerks of Session as having Commission from Charles Earl of Selkirk Clerk to His Majesties Council Registers and Rolls AL. GIBSON EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty Anno DOM. 1696.