shall appoint a fit person (not being a corn-factor, miller, maltster, baker, clerk, agent, or person dealing in wheat, flour, or bread,) residing in or near such city, &c. to be a receiver of assize returns; and such mayor or justices shall require all cornfactors, mealmen, &c. to make returns on a certain day of all wheat and wheaten flour bought or sold by them within seven days preceding, with the prices and the names and residences of the persons of whom bought, or to whom sold, s. 3. receiver of assize returns, shall make up a general return, and within two days after such general return, the mayor or justices to set the assize; such assize to commence and continue as directed by the court of mayor, aldermen, &c. and where wheat or flour has been brought from a distance, an addition may be made to the assize. s. 9.

Any corn-factor, &c. making a false return, to forfeit not exceeding £10. and in order to ascertain the correctness of such return, the person making it, or any other person who can give information thereof, may be summoned and examined, and if they neglect to appear, they shall forfeit a like sum of £10; any person wilfully forswearing himself, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. s. 12.

The act 36 Geo. III. c. 22, is partly amended and partly repealed by 41 Geo. III. c. 12, which enacts, that bread shall not be marked according to the directions of that act, but that wheaten bread of an inferior quality, or any mixed bread, shall be

marked with a roman H, and a mixed loaf with a roman X. s. 3.

Any person omitting such marks, or who shall not well make, or shall adulterate such wheaten or mixed bread with any mixture or ingredient not used in making bread; or shall make, bake, or sell any loaves deficient in weight, according to the assize, such persons offending shall be liable to the like punishment as any bakers or makers of bread are for the like misdemeanor, s. 4. as provided by 31 Geo. II. c. 29, by which act a penalty of not more than £10. nor less than 40s. is inflicted for such offence, on conviction by confession or oath of one witness, or imprisonment not more than one month, nor less than ten days; if a servant is convicted of the offence, he is to forfeit not more than £5. nor less than 20s. or like imprisonment; magistrate may, out of the penalty, publish the offence, with names and additions of offenders, in the newspapers; and the mixing adulterated with good meal, incurs the same penalty. s. 21.

Bread, inferior to wheaten, shall not be sold at a higher price than household (by assize,) on penalty of 20s, on oath of one witness, or confession. 8. 27.

Mixing any meal or flour of any other grain than that of the grain which the same shall import to be, or putting in any mixture in lieu of flour, incurs a penalty of not more than £5. nor less than 20s. s. 23. and for selling at a greater

price than the assize price, not more than 40s. nor less than 10s. s. 26.

Mills and other places may be entered by warrant of a magistrate, on information on oath of reasonable suspicion that adulterated meal is concealed, and if any found, the same may be seized and disposed of as the magistrate shall think fit; s. 29. and any unlawful ingredient, for the purpose of mixing with meal or flour, in the possession of any miller, mealman, baker, &c. such person shall forfeit not exceeding £10. nor less than 40s. unless it can be proved that such ingredients were not bought for the purpose of adulteration. s. 30.

Penalty for obstructing search, not more than £5. nor less than 20s. s. 31.

If baker, &c. make appear to a magistrate, upon oath, that he hath been convicted and paid any penalty through the misconduct of his servant, such servant on proof shall recompense his master, or be committed to the house of correction for one calendar month. s. 33..

Under this act one magistrate may hear and determine offences in a summary way; the party accused to be summoned, and if he does not obey the summons, or shew reasonable excuse, then warrant may issue on proof of the offence complained of; but if he cannot be found, the justice shall proceed to examine the matter, and if the offender is convicted, and the penalty not paid in 24 hours, may levy the same by distress, or commit the offender for

one month, or until the penalty is paid, s. 34: witnesses summoned, and not appearing, or refusing to be examined on oath, may be committed for not exceeding fourteen days, nor less than three.

s. 35.

By a general clause in this act, s. 34, all penalties shall go to the informer; but by 32 Geo. II. c. 18, such as are not particularly disposed of, shall go half to the informer, and the other half at the magistrate's discretion. s. 2.

No certiorari shall be granted to remove any conviction. 31 Geo. II. c. 29, s. 37.

Any person convicted may appeal to the next sessions, on entering into recognizance in double the penalty of the conviction, and judgment of the sessions to be final, s. 38; but if offender convicted within six days before the sessions, he shall be at liberty to appeal to the next, or next following sessions. s. 39.

Actions brought against any magistrate or peace officer under this act, must be commenced within six months, must be laid in the proper county, and seven days notice of such action be given in writing. The last recited acts refer to places where the assize is set.

By 3 Geo. III. c. 11, certain regulations are enacted in cases where no assize is set. No loaf or loaves called assize loaves, the weight of which varies according to the price of grain, shall be sold in the same place with loaves which depend on

their measure, called prized loaves, on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 40s. nor less than 10s. justices at their general, quarter or petty sessions may appoint which sort of assized or prized loaves, and what other sorts of bread, and what sorts of grain shall be made and sold within their jurisdiction; but justices not to allow the making for sale or selling any sort of assize bread made of flour of wheat, other than wheaten or household bread, and loaves of white bread of the price of 2d. or under. And every maker of bread for sale shall observe the same proportion as to weight, as where the assize is set, on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 40s. s. 4. and every peck, half-peck, quartern, and half-quartern loaf of wheaten bread shall be sold in proportion to each other as to price; and the like as to household, which shall be sold for one-fourth less than wheaten bread of the same denomination, under a penalty of not exceeding 40s. nor less than 108. s. 5.

Every peck loaf to weigh 17lb. 6oz. half-peck slb. 11 oz. quarter-peck 4lb. 54oz. half-quarter peck 2lb. 24oz. on pain of forfeiting for every ounce wanting, not more than 5s. nor less than 1s. and for less than an ounce not exceeding 2s. 6d. nor less than 6d. so as the same in any city, &c. or within the bills of mortality, be brought before a justice and weighed before him within 24 hours after the same baked or found; or elsewhere within three days, unless such deficiency arose from acci