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business, ia any greater quantity than fifty pounds, unless in 

 scales and with weights, or by the vibrating steelyard invented 

 hy Benjamin Dearborn, the vibrating steelyard invented or 

 improved by Samuel Hills, or the Fairbanks' scales, sealed 

 according to law, under penalty of ten dollars. 



Sec. 31. The municipal officers of towns, where beef cat- 

 tle are sold for immediate consumption or for barreling, shall 

 appoint one or more suitable persons not dealers in cattle, to 

 be weighers of beef, and they shall be duly sworn. 



Sec. 32. All beef sold as aforesaid, shall be weighed by 

 the sworn weighers, and certificates of the weight of all the 

 beef, hide, and tallow of each head of cattle shall be signed 

 by said weighers, and delivered to the seller thereof in the 

 form following, viz. : 



"This certifies, that I have duly weighed the cattle, bought 



by , of , from , of , this day 



of , 18—: 



"A. B., Swomi Weigher. 



Sec. 33. Any person, purchasing beef cattle for market or 

 exportation not w^eighed pursuant to the foregoing provisions, 

 other than live cattle, and except when the weight or mode of 

 weighing is agreed upon expressly by the buyer and seller, 

 shall forl'eit thirty dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 34. The inspector general and his deputies, by them- 

 selves or by other persons by them appointed and sworn, 

 shall weigh all hides taken from cattle slaughtered for barrel- 

 ing, making reasonal)le deduction for tare and drainage ; and 

 give a certificate, specifying the gross weight and the deduc- 

 tions made as aforesaid. 



Sec. 35. All the foregoing fines and forfeitures, not herein 

 otherwise j)i"ovided for, may be recovered by action of debt, 



