The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-05-07

approved or condemned, for inspecting and
marking as directed by this Act, at the rate
Of four cents for every twenty-five pounds of
powder 50 inspected and marked ana ftir
every cask which he shall find deficient in
weight, and shall ill up, fifty cents in addition
to the fee for inspecting and marking and
all expenses Of cooperage, necessary to put
the casks in the condition required by this
Act, shall be borne by the owner or owners
of the powder. And it shall be the duty of
the Inspector, annually, in the month of jan
uary, to make return to the GOVERNOR and
Council of all the Gunpowder which has been
inspected by him during the past year.
SEC. 6. Be al further enacted, That the
keeper of every publick powder magazine, and
other publick place of deposit Of powder,
shall at all seasonable times in every day in
the year, the Sabbath only excepted, admit
any such Inspector and his assistants into the
said magazine, or other place of deposit, to
do and perform the several duties required OF
him under the provisions of this Act.
SEQ. Z. Be Il further enacied, That il any
person shall knowingly sell any condemned
Gunpowder for good Gunpowder, or shall
fraudulent!y alter or deface any mark or
marks placed by any Inspector upon any cask
or casks containing Gunpowder, or shall fraud
ulently put any Gunpowder which shall not
have been inspected i'll this Commonwealth,
or which, having been inspected, has been
marked OF lower number than the cask into
which it is put, or which has been condemn
ed, into any cask or casks which shall have
been marked and numbered by any Inspector,
asreeabiy to the provisions of this Act, or
shall change any powder from any caslx or
casks marked with the pane of one manufac-
turer into any cask or casks marked with the
name OF another manufacturer every such
person so offending, shall forfeit and pay not
less than ifty dollars, nor more than FIVE hun
dred dollars, for each and every such offence:
to be recovered i'll an action on the case in
any Court of competent jurisdiction, one half
to the use OF the Commonwealth, the other
hall to the use of him or them who shall sue
and prosecute for the same.
SEC. 8. he ii further enacted, That if any
Inspector shall mark any cask, the contents
OF which he has not inspected according to
the true meaning and intent of this Act, or if
he shall permit any other person or persons
to use his marks i'll violation or evasion there
OF, such Inspector so offending shall forfeit
and pay for every cask SO marked, the sum of
twenty dollars; to be recovered in the man
ner and to the uses provided in the seventh
section Of this Act, and be moreover removed
from Office. And if any person or persons
knowingly shall sell or dispose of, or shall
cause or permit to be sold or disposed of, or
shall expert or cause to be exported without
the limits of this Commonwealth, any Gun
powder before the same has been inspected
and marked agreeably to the provisions of
this Act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of
fifty cents for every pound Of powder so sold,
disposed of, or exported to be recovered in
the manner and TO the uses aforesaid.
SEC. 8. BE ii farther enacted, That if any
person appointed to the Office of Inspector
under the provisions of this Act. shall, during
the time of holding or exercising the said
office be concerned directly or indirectly i'll
manufacturing Gunpowder, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum Of one thousand dollars for
every such offence to be recovered in the
manner provided in the seventh section of
this Act.
SEC. 10. Be Il further enacted, That this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and
after the first day of april next; and that all
laws, heretofore made, respecting the inspec-
ton of Gunpowder in this Commonwealth,
be, and the same are hereby from and after
that time repealed Prorided, houerer, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed
to defeat the right of any person or persons
to any penalties or forfeitures that NAV then
have accrued for the breach Of any of the
provisions Of the Acts repealed as aforesaid.
.9pproped By The Gorer,,our,
FEB. II, 1923.