Sydney Coal Delivery Act 1846 No 6a (NSW)

No. II.

S ydney ( ^ al

D eliveky. A l l Act to amend the Act for regulating the isale

and delivery of Coal in the City of Sydney

and its vicinity. [30//i October, 1846.]

Preamble.	TXT H E R E AS it is expedient to repeal the fifth and sixth sections of
V V an Act passed in the n in th year of the reign of H er present

oth and fitli sections	M ajesty in titu led “ A n A c t fo r regulating the sale and	delivery	o f
of 9 Vic. No. S rc-

|»ealcd.	“ Coal in the City o f Sydney and its vicinity" and to make other provision in th a t behalf Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of N cav South "Wales by and Avith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That the fifth and sixth sections of the said recited Act shall be and the same arc hereby repealed.
Cart to have weigh­
ing machine.	2. And be it enacted That if any carman or driver of any cart Avagg-on or other carriage laden Avith Coal for sale or to be delivered to the purchaser or purchasers thereof by any seller or sellers of or dealer or dealers in or carrier or carri(n-s of Coal from any ship lighter barge or other craft or from any Avharf Avarchouse or other place Avithin the said Port of Sydney or Avithin the City of Sydney or Avithin the distance of five miles from the Obelisk in Macquarie-place shall not have placed in on or under his cart Avaggon or other cai’riagc a perfect weighing machine then and in every such ease CA'ery such carman or driver of such cart Avaggon or other carriage not having such macliinc so placed therein thereon or thereunder shall for CA'cry such offence

forfeit

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Desertion o f Foreign Seamen.

I'oi’feit and pay any sum not t^xcceding twenty ])0 unds Provided Proviso,

always th a t Coal wliieh sliall be carried or conveyed in bulk or in any cart wagi>on or other carriai>e belonging to the purchaser or purchasers of such Coal may be so carried or conveyed w ithout the carman or driver being obliged to carry a weighing machine therewith or any person or persons being subject or liable to any penalty or penalties in respect thereof.

3. And be it enacted That every such carman or driver usiiig Penalty foi using

light weights or an unjust Aveighing machine shall forfeit and pay a sum “richL'ro'r̂ i'igift

not exceeding twenty pounds and the employer of such carman or "eights.

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drivt'r shall forfeit and pay :i sum not less than twenty pounds nor more than one hundred pounds such sums so to he respectively forfeited as aforesaid to he recovered in the same m anner as if they had l)een penalties imjiosed by the said Act and such weighing mticliines and a veights respectiAcly shall he liable to he examined seiztal and forfeited if found defective in m anner directed by the Act of tilt; sjlid (lovernor and Council passed in tlie fourth year of the reign of 11 is late Miijesty King W illiam the Pourth intituled A n Act fo r “ establishing Standard Weights and Measures and fo r j)rercnting the “ use o f such as are fa lse and deficient.”