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VII All stockings, plaiding, and other goods, packed in the said Pack-
house, are to pay twopence sterling for each barrel-bulk belonging to freemen,
and unfreemen to pay fourpence per barrel for package of such goods, and
which are to be allowed to lie in the warehouse for twenty days after package,
without being chargeable with any additional dues.
VIII. — All iron belonging to burghers or freemen to be allowed to lie in the
Weigh-house, free of any warehouse rent or lyage dues ; but is to be liable in
payment of one penny sterling per cwt. for weighing dues, and unfreemen to
pay twopence per cwt. for weighing of their iron.
IX. — All goods whatsoever (not particularly specified in this Table) weigh-
ed in the public Weigh-house, belonging to freemen or burgesses, pay one
penny sterling per cwt. British, and strangers or unfreemen pay twopence per
cwt. of such goods ; and each separate weighing under a cwt. pays likewise
one penny for weighing dues by freemen, and unfreemen twopence.
X. — All goods and merchandise (not particularly specified in this Table)
lodged in the Weigh-house or Store-house to pay at the rate of one halfpenny
sterling per barrel-bulk for each night during thirty nights, and thereafter to
pay only one farthing per barrel-bulk for each night.
XI. — All the inhabitants are prohibited from weighing, or allowing to be
weighed, in their houses, or any where else, to the prejudice of the public
Weigh-house, any pork, beef, tough fat, tallow, butter, cheese, wool, or any
other article liable in Weigh-house dues, under the penalty of five shillings
sterling for each transgression, to be paid to the tacksman or collector of
Weigh-house dues; and the tacksman of the Weigh-house only, but no other
person, shall be entitled to receive and lodge in the Weigh-house, for payment
of the usual dues, all such goods and merchandise as are not claimed by the
owners, or where they have not authorised any person in Aberdeen to take
charge of them.
XII. — All rough fat, tallow, butter, cheese, and other articles, brought to
the market for sale, and liable to the payment of Weigh-house dues, having
paid the said dues on coming into town, the owners thereof shall be entitled to
have the same weighed gratis by the tacksman of the Weigh-house provided
no less quantity than a stone be weighed at once.
XIII. — The tacksman or collector of the Weigh-house dues is hereby order-
ed to have always a copy of this Table at the Weigh-house for inspection of
all concerned ; and, that the lieges may not be imposed upon, he shall be
obliged, under the penalty of twenty shillings sterling, also to carry about with
him a copy thereof, to be produced, if required, to any person from whom he
collects.
1839—40