East India Company Act 1697

XXVI. Collectors to provide Scales, &c. at every Salt-work;

Weighers to be sworn; Justice may administer Oath; Collector to pay Weigher.

And for the better ascertaining the said Duties on Salt according to the Bushel of Fifty six Pounds Weight herein before declared in all Parts and Places where any Salt-work or Salt-pit is or shall be Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Collector or Officer appointed to receive and collect the said Duties upon Salt shall provide at every such Salt-work or Salt-pit a sufficient Beam 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-pit for the weighing all Salt that shall be delivered from such Salt-work or Salt-pit And that one or more Person or Persons (as occasion shall require) living in or near such Salt-work or Salt-pit shall be admitted and sworn to the due and true weighing all Salt from thence to be delivered before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace near adjoyning (which Oath he or they are hereby impowred 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.