Cheese and Butter Trade Act 1692

II. Buyer, &c. to seal Cask. Seller afterwards changing or mixing the Commodity after Sale.

Penalty 20s; levied by Distress.

And for the preventing any Fraud in the Seller after the Factor or Buyer hath bought and contracted for the said Butter and approved of the same Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Factor or Buyer shall sett his Seal or Mark upon the said Butter or the Cask in which it is or his Name at length And in case the same shall afterwards be exchanged or be opened and the Cask wherein the same is putt upp changed or any bad and decayed Butter shall be mixed and packed upp with sound and good Butter or any other Fraud be comitted by the Seller and the Offender be thereof convicted upon Oath made of the said Offence before one or more of their Majesties Justice or Justices of the Peace by one or more Witnesse or Witnesses which Oath the said Justice or Justices are hereby impowered and required to administer or upon confession of the Offender or Offenders before such Justice or Justices the said Party or Parties shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Shillings for every such Ferkin and Offence to be levied by Distresse and sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattells the overplus to be restored after all Charges of the said Distresse defrayed And every Constable of the Parish or chief Constable of the Hundred where such Offence shall be co[m]mitted are hereby authorized and required to levy the same accordingly by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the said Justice or Justices so to do.