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British Legislation. 
the Third , intituled An Act to regulate 
the Making and Sale of Bread out of 
the City of London , and the Liberties 
thereof and beyond the Weekly Bills of 
Mortality and Ten Miles of the Royal 
Exchange , where no Assize is set; and 
for establishing other Provisions and 
Regulations relative thereto .—June 8th, 
1821. 
II. It shall be lawful for any Person or 
Persons whomsoever, out of the City of 
London and the Liberties thereof, and be¬ 
yond the Weekly Bills of Mortality and 
Ten Miles of the Royal Exchang'e, to 
make, bake, sell, and expose for Sale any 
Bread made of Flour or Meal of Wheat, 
Barley, Rye, Oats, Buckwheat, Indian 
Corn, Peas, Beans, Rice, and every other 
Kind of Grain whatsoever, and Potatoes, 
or any of them, and with any common 
Salt, pure Water, Egg’s, Milk, Yeast, Barm, 
Leven and Potatoe Yeast, and mixed in 
such Proportions as the Makers or Sellers 
of Bread shall think fit. 
III. Assize Bread and Priced Bread not 
to be made at the same Time in the same 
Place •, (that is to say), no Assize Loaves 
of the Price of Three-pence, aud Priced 
Loaves called Quartern Loaves; nor Assize 
Loaves of the Price of Sixpence,and Priced 
Loaves called Quartern Loaves ; nor Assize 
Loaves of the Price of Twelve-pence, and 
Priced Loaves called Half-peck Loaves; 
nor Assize Loaves of the Price of Eighteen- 
pence, and Priced Loaves called Peck 
Loaves, shall at the same Time be made 
for Sale, sold, or carried out for sale, or be 
offered or exposed to or for Sale, or allowed 
to be sold by any Baker or other Seller of 
Bread, in his, her, or their Shop, Dwelling 
House, or Premises, that unwary Persons 
may not be imposed upon and injured by 
buying Assize Loaves, referred to in the 
said Tables, as or for Priced Loaves so 
referred to in the said Tables, or by buy¬ 
ing such Priced Loaves as or for such As¬ 
size Loaves; and every Person who shall 
offend therein, and be convicted of any 
such Offence in Manner herein-after men¬ 
tioned, shall for every such Offence forfeit 
and pay a Sum not exceeding Forty Shil¬ 
lings nor less than Ten Shillings. 
IV. No Person or Persons making or who 
shall make Bread for Sale out of the City of. 
London and the Liberties thereof, and be¬ 
yond the Weekly Bills of Mortality and 
Ten Miles of the Royal Exchange, nor any 
Journeyman or other Servant of any such 
Person or Persons as last mentioned, shall 
at any Time or Times, in the making of 
Bread for Sale, put any Alum, or Prepara¬ 
tion or Mixture in which Alum shall be an 
Ingredient, or any other Preparation or 
Mixture in lieu of Alum, into the Dough of 
such Bread, or in anywise use or cause to 
be used any Alum, or any other uuwliole- 
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some Mixture, Ingredient, or Thing what¬ 
soever, in the making of such Bread, or 
on any Account, or under any Colour or 
Pretence whatsoever, upon pain that every 
such Person, whether Master or Journey¬ 
man, or other Person, who shall knowingly 
offend in the Premises, and shall be con¬ 
victed of any such Offence, shall forfeit and 
pay any Sum of Money not exceeding 
Twenty Pounds, or less than Five Pounds, 
or in Default, shall be committed to the 
House of Correction or some Prison, not 
exceeding Twelve nor less than Three Ca¬ 
lendar Months, unless such Penalty shall 
be sooner paid; and it shall be lawful for 
the Magistrate to cause the Offender’s 
Name, Place of Abode, and Offence, to be 
published in some Newspaper which shall 
be published where the Offence shall be 
committed. 
V. No Person shall knowingly put into 
Corn, Meal, or Flour, which shall be 
ground, dressed, bolted, or manufactured 
for Sale out of the said City of London and 
the Liberties thereof, aud beyond the 
Weekly Bills of Mortality and Ten Miles 
of the Royal Exchange, either at the Time 
of grinding, dressing, bolting, or in any¬ 
wise manufacturing the same, or at any 
other Time or Times, any Ingredient, Mix¬ 
ture, or Thing whatsoever, or shall know¬ 
ingly sell, offer or expose to or for Sale, 
any Meal or Flour of one Sort of Grain, as 
or for the Meal or Fleur of any other Sort 
of Grain, or any Thing as or for or mixed 
w ith the Meal or Flour of any Grain which 
shall not be the real and genuine Meal or 
Flour of the Grain the same shall import to 
be and ought to be, upon pain that every 
Person who shall offend in the Premises, 
and shall be thereof convicted in Manner 
herein-after mentioned, shall forfeit and 
pay for every such Offence any Sum not 
exceeding Twenty Pounds nor less than 
Five Pounds. 
VI. Loaves made of the Meal of any 
other Grain than Wheat, to be marked with 
the Letler (M). 
VII. Magistrates or Peace Officers by 
their Warrants, may search Bakers Pre¬ 
mises, &c. and enter into any House, Mill, 
Shop, Stall, Bakehouse, Bolting-house, 
Pastry Warehouse, Outhouse, or Ground 
of or belonging to any Miller, Meatman, 
or Baker, or other Person who shall grind 
Grain, or dress or bolt Meal or Flour, or 
make Bread for Reward or Sale as afore¬ 
said, and take with him or them, to his or 
their Assistance, one or more Master Mil¬ 
ler, Mealman, or Baker, Millers, Mealmeu 
or Bakers, and to search or examine whe¬ 
ther any Mixture, Ingredient, or Thing, 
not the genuine Produce of the Grain such 
Meal or Flour shall import or ought to be 
shall have been mixed up with or put into 
any Meal or Flour in the Possession of such 
Miller, Mealman, or Baker, and also search 
