The Statutory Provisions contained in certain Acts of 18,17 and of 1887, the first of which is referred to at the beginnina of this article, will now be noticed. Holding of markets.—Before a market fair is first opened for public use, ten days' notice of the time when it will be opened is required to be given in some local newspaper, and by printed handbills conspicuously posted in the district. After the market-place has been opened for public use every person (other than a licensed hawker) who sells or exposes for sale any tollable articles will be liable to a ye/laity of forty shilling,s, if he does so within the prescribed limits, unless it is within his dwelling-house or shop. The markets and fairs must be held regularly on the appointed market days ; and special penalties are imposed for obstructing a market keeper or selling or exposing for sale in the market any unwholesome meat or pro visions. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES are also the subject of special provision. Weighinq.—The weighing of CATTLE (q.v.) is provided for in the Act of 1887. 1 he older Act is confined to goods and carts. The authorities must provide sufficient weights and measures for weighing and measuring com modities sold in their market or fair, and also proper persons to attend thereto. A seller of goods in a market who refuses to have them weighed, when so requested by the buyer, incurs a penalty. And in like manlier the authorities must provide sufficient means and accommodation for weighing carts, and a driver is bound to take his cart to be weighed, with or without its load, upon the request of the buyer of the goods it carries. A penalty of .,E5 is incurred by a driver who commits any of the following offences—(a) If he at the time of weighing the cart knowingly has anything in or about it other than its proper load ; (b) if he alter any ticket denoting the weight of the cart or its loading ; (c) if he makes or uses, or is privy to making or using, any ticket falsely stating the weight of the cart or its loading ; (d) if, after the weighing of the cart with its load, he removes or attempts to remove any part of the load with a view to disposing of or representing the residue of the load to be the full load denoted by the ticket ; (e) if, between the weighing of the cart and loacl and the weighing of the cart alone, he changes the .wheels of the cart or makes any other change ; and (f) if he is
guilty of any other fraudulent contrivance to misrepresent the weight of the cart or its load. Penalties are also imposed upon buyers and sellers, and others, for committing frauds in weighing. To11.9.—A list of stallages, rents, and tolls must be painted on boards, or printed and attached to boards in legible characters. These boards are to be continuously and conspicuously set up in the market, and the weighing-house and slaughter-houses attached thereto. No stallage, rent, or toll is payable during the time the list is not so published ; nor for anything not specilied therein. But if the list is destroyed or injured these payments can be enforced during the time reasonably required for its restoration. They may also be varied from time to time within the amounts specified in the special Act authorising the market. A penalty is incurred by any one who detnands or receives a greater toll than that authorised by the special Act. Tolls in respect of the market must be paid from time to time on demand, and those in respect of weighing before the commodities or carts are weighed or measured. In respect of cattle the tolls become due as soon as the cattle are brought into the market-place, and before they are put into any pen, or tied up anywhere. A further toll is payable in respect of cattle not removed within one hour after the closing of the market. Copies of the special Act are kept in the principal office of the market, and also by the local clerk of the peace in England or Ireland, and by the sheriff-clerk in Scotland. They can be inspected by all persons interested therein.