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AT a Town Meeting held in Bunted on Tuesday*!August 27 ih, 1333, the folio wing regulations, concerning the sale and measuring of Fire Wood.• were adopted, viz: _ ' VlJ1 It n ordered that two faithful persons shall be appointed at one of the annual meetings of the freemen in said town, everv vear, to Measure and Inspect i wood brought into said town for sale, whether by land or water, one oI said persons shall measure all I wood ode red lot stale in said town.| II It is further ordered that i-aid Mcasuters arul Inspectors, ot one of them, shall be called upon to tueasare uni mspcil ill lire wood brought for sale, by HuUr, Iiv the perst'n who tirel offers if for sale, orthe tir.'t par chaser thereof* after it shall have been corded up ; and if any jm-wmi or person^ shall cart or | deliver oil the wharf, 01 hi tiding place, any wood.be-foie u shall t iv** been nic.isuierl and inspected as l afore.-.iid, by one of -aid persons, he ot they shall s forfeit and pay the sum of Ten Dollar*, to he recovered in the name of the Town Treasurer, before any tribunal * oniputcitl to tty* the same ; one half rf which r'hal 1 ho paid the informer, and the other■half in tin I* own Treasurer fur tire use of the Free School of sard town, ^Ml It ts fa:: bet ordered, 1 iint the Measurer of ooii appointed, iesidutg in or near the northerly com pa i I paitofllie hnvii, shall niriily all persons as they cult i the said compact part of the town, andnear the budge, w.th v yuil I or 'ate, ol i! i • ‘ - e ofdi-naitii ' ; uiiuh Mea urer shall m?pec| and measure all uch wood, and shall deliver to eat It pi isou. so bunging wood into town iV»r sale* a certjfieai e to accompany each lo id, -pc* dying the »«f woodcontained m his load, tot w Inch the vender of the wood - hall pay the me i-oircr si\ i elits for eu It ceititi-eate, win* n lialt be refunded to the vender by the pi err ha r, and pa d nu r and above l|ic agreed price of lire wood,I 111! It t- I iiriu r of,h-ri d, fhai if any petr-nn pm-chasing wood shall i dis*.ifretied with the *piai»tityfor w ho 'iii '•halt ha 1 •- been *lehr« j ■ d at the phu *• «dth livery, stu b jmrchiiser shall vomplaib fo one ofr iid measuri’j-s ana pop test h in r o measure the -sum . .uni il the wood shall fall short of the ipnurlity lor v. Inch tl was dchvctid. the vender shall make up the *pian-t:tv 0! d e ih - * i t tic pro c tiler cot, and sh-tl I I or tin.* fust oticisee pav the nicasiiu r for tnea^iitmg the lt;ametvrrnMivc rents* f i any ipnntity less than a t Til,and the like -uin lot • very eoid t delivered. rf morethan one t id, s mi it shall lo I lie duty of saul mca-sttrer^fu attend immediately when called upon by any purelra-er t * tvli *ni wood shall have been de live ted n~ t fore'ltd ; .Hid tl -lid measurer- shall a-cr lam that there shall have been no deficiency* in the measure, the purchaser « unpin itmir shall p iv The salts at»n--sanltutlie measurer fur nie.iur»ng said wood,V It is thriller ordered, That if any*.vender ofwood shall found guilty of delivering wood, byhliu^tflp' i rv nit , ngciit, i*i other or^On. :i -er*o(dlime to any petson or per-on** for a greater *piau-* it v than it slull be ascertained to mea re, he shall forfeit and pay l fie sum of I w.» Do1! us. ami flt; i I he lli if 11 Ime out. live he. shall 1 u h tl all the wood so delivered, and m ever* vase ot --uvii tielleiein y slmll pay for ittea-urmg the sum, the same ratio as before sipeomt d. w Inch t* *rf at uros -hall be ret overtoil and a j propriiitcd, as provided m the second ordinanceVI, flu hica-wirer** shall receive fro mi tin litpm • Iia -eis v|' i he wood by them iiilt;ju i ilt; d a .1 j :ea-siircd on the lauding \ J c. two cents per c-»rd. and the |oieg«»*i»g or dm on i - shall go ill!i) vlll'tf oil the j list day of (b loliet ne\*.| John Noifisitnd I'fiiih t .1 Mtnuo were ,ipp.ati* *!Mea-orci- and Inspectors of lire wood m.d- . H ■ hio1 go mg urdinatice.Fablished Uv order,1V.M. THHOOP. Tour, i'h j I:.Sept IJ •
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Bristol Gazette
Bristol, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Sep 21, 1833
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