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for alum or any other ingredient, which 
may be intended to be used in or for any 
sueh Adulteration or Mixture; and if on 
any such Search, it shall appear that any 
such Meal, Flour, Dough, or Bread, so 
found, shall have been so adulterated by 
the Person in whose Possession it shall 
then be, or any Alum or other Ingredient 
shall be found, which shall seem to have 
been deposited there in order to be used in 
the Adulteration of 'deal, Flour, or Bread, 
then and in every such Case it shall be law¬ 
ful for such Magistrate or Magistrates, Jus¬ 
tice or Justices of the Peace, or Officer or 
Officers authorized as aforesaid respective¬ 
ly, within the Limits of their respective 
Jurisdictions, to seize and take any Meal, 
Flour, Dough, or Bread, which shall be 
found in any such Search. 
VIII. Every Miller, Mealman, or Baker 
out of the City of London and the Liber¬ 
ties thereof, and beyond the Weekly Bills 
of Mortality and Ten Miles of the Royal 
Exchange, in whose House, Mill, Shop, 
Stall, Bakehouse, Boltiughouse, Pastry 
Warehouse, Outhouse, Ground, or Pos¬ 
session, any Alum or other Ingredient or 
Mixture shall be found, shall, on being 
convicted of any sueh offence, forfeit and 
pay on every such Conviction any Sum of 
Money not exceeding Twenty nor less than 
Five Pounds,or be committed to the House 
of Correction, or some other Prison, there 
to remain for any Time not exceeding 
Twelve nor less than Three Calendar 
Mouths. 
IX. If tiny Person or Persons shall wil¬ 
fully obstruct or hinder any such Search as 
herein-before is authorized to be made or 
the Seizure of any Meal, Flour, Dough, 
or Bread, or of any Alum or other Ingre¬ 
dient or Mixture, which shall be found on 
any such Search, he, she, or they shall for 
every such Offence, on being convicted 
thereof, forfeit and pay such Sum not ex¬ 
ceeding Five Pounds, nor less thaa Fifty 
Shillings. 
X. Every Baker or Seller of Bread shall 
cause to be fixed in some convenient Part 
of his or her Shop, a Beam and Scales, 
with proper Weights, in order that every 
Person or Persons who may purchase any 
Bread of any such Baker or Seller of 
Bread, may, if he, she, or they shall 
think proper, require the same to be 
weighed in his, her, or their Presence; 
and that if any Baker or Seller of Bread, 
out of the City of London and the Liber¬ 
ties thereof, and beyond the Weekly Bills 
of Mortality and Ten Miles of theRo^al 
Exchange, shall neglect to fix such Beam 
and Scales in some convenient Part of his 
or her Shop, or to provide and keep for Use 
proper Weights, or whose Weights shall 
be deficient in their due Weight, or who 
shall refuse to weigh any Bread purchased 
m his or her Shop, in the Presence of the 
Party or Parties requiring the same, he, 
she, or they shall for every such Offence 
forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Five 
Pounds nor less than Twenty Shillings, as 
the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or 
Justices, before whom such Offender shall 
be convicted, shall order and direct. 
XI. No Master, Mistress, Journeyman, or 
other Person respectively exercising or 
employed in the Trade or Calling of a Ba¬ 
ker, out of the City of London and the Li¬ 
berties thereof, and beyond the Weekly 
Bills of Mortality and Ten Miles of the 
Royal Exchange, shall on the Lord’s Day, 
commonly called Sunday, cr any Part 
thereof, make cr bake any Household 
or other Bread, Rolls, or Cakes of any 
Sort or Kind, or shall on any Part of the 
said Day sell or expose to Sale, or permit 
or suffer to be sold or exposed to Sale, any 
Bread, Rolls, or Cakes of any Sort or Kind 
except to Travellers, or in Cases of ur¬ 
gent Necessity; or bake or deliver, or 
permit or suffer to be baked or delivered, 
any Meat, Pudding, Pie, Tart, or Victuals 
at any Time after Half past One of the Clock 
in the Afternoon of that Day. 
XII. No Miller or Baker may act as Jus¬ 
tice in the Execution of this Act. 
XIII. All Offences against this Act may 
be heard in a summary Way. Penalties 
levied by Distress and Sale. 
XXIV. The Rights of the University are 
Saved. 
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER, 
)f ith an Historical and Critical Proemium. 
V Authors or Publishers desirous of seeing an early notice of their Works are 
requested to transmit copies before the 18 th of the Month. 
W E have perused, with the deepest in¬ 
terest, the volumes recently pub¬ 
lished by Mr. Mark Wilks, containing a 
History of the Persecutions endured by 
the Protestants of the South of France, 
since ike year 1814 ; and we close them 
with teelings of indignation, horror, and 
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disgust, which we should vainly attempt to 
describe. It is scarcely credible that such 
atrocities could, for such a length of time, 
b,ave been perpetrated under a civilized 
form of government; and the French mi¬ 
nistry seem to have been so sensible of the 
reproach to which the national character 
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