Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

XLV. Officer to provide Scales, Weights, &c. at Salt Works;

and may fix the same; Weigher sworn; Salary.

And for the better ascertaining the said Duties on Salt according to the Bushel of Fifty six Pound Weight herein before declared in all Parts and Places where any Salt Work or Salt Pitt is or shall be Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Collector or Officer appointed to receive and collect the said Duties shall from and after the said Seventeenth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety and six provide att every such Salt Work or Salt Pitt a sufficient Beame Scale and Weights or Stileard and shall have Liberty to fix the same in some convenient place in or about such Salt Work or Salt Pitt for the Weighing all Salt that shall be delivered from such Salt Work or Salt Pitt And that one or more Persons or Persons (as occasion shall require) living on or neare such Salt Work or Salt Pitt shall be admitted and sworne to the due and true Weighing all Salt from thence to be delivered before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace neare adjoyning (which Oath hee or they are hereby impowered to administer) without Fee or Reward And such Weigher & Weighers shall be satisfied and paid for their pains in weighing such Salt by the said Collector or Officer for the said Duties Any thing herein or in the said former Act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.