Court Of Burgesses, Westm...
The Times, 1824-12-02T00:00:00

At Uttrt 0t Burgesses for the C'itj and Liberties of Westminster was held this day at the Guidhal , for the purpose of receiving the *eport of the several " Annoyance Juries," who areappointed to inspect the weights aRd nreasarer, usedZ in the several divisions of the city. A number of persons were fined for illegal balances and unwarip. ed weights and measures, but being tor the greater part very poor! persons, ignorant of the penalties to which they subjected themselves, their fines were remitted, and they were dismissed with a ciaution to he more careFul an lfuture. Thomas Pearswn, 35, Store-street, Oxford-road, oilman, fined 10s., for having certain vinegar anti oil measares unsealed.2H.alf the fine was remitted. Reyuold.v, Feathers public-house, Oxford-street, for havlng six pinus unsealed, and two nearly half a gill deficient each.-Fined 20 shillings. lWilZiam Qtii, and Jf1hehael Connor, 7, Oxford-buildings, green. grocers, antl Jane Nerebrook, 15, Ship-yard, Temple-bar, werec fined the reduced sum of half a crown each for deficient balance. Lewis Dode, oilman, Vauxhail-bridpe-road, for tieficient icales sad one half-pint measure half a gill deflcient.-Fined 15s. Joln Roterts, Roundl-court, Strand, baker. one pair of scales three quarters of an ounce deficint. Fined 30i.-Finereduced to 10s. John Klig7ht, 23, Davies-street, cheesemosiger, one pair of scales deficient six drains. Fined 2Os.~ 'inereduced to 10s. Joins irpur, Earl-street, Horseferry-road, butcher, one pair of srales, deficent one ounce. by having a piece of fiat stuck oil one side of the seale._Fined IOs. Christopher Leni-is, 3, Queen-street, baker, one half-pound weight one oince deficient.-Fined lOs. Lewis, in his appeal, stateti that the weight hatl that morning got into the fire by accident, and a bit of lead was nweled ou- of it, which caused the deficiency. lis wife had pointed 'out the mark of iti having been recently in the fire to the jury au the thine.-Fine re. luced to 6s. ','fa rk Skerritt, Bricklayers' Arms (publlc-liouse), Seuth Molton- street, eight pints, three half-pints, and one quart, each half a gill deficient. Skerritt, in Ihis defence, said that he took them about a year ago, when be toolk the public-house, from the former tenant, and that he. did not know they were deficier.t.-Fined 20s. PATENT SCALES. AMr. Johni AtMorton, of 258, Oxford-strect, fishimonger, ha& been fined 21. by thejury for using patent scales with a fixed weight. The weight of the articles place on the scale was denoted by the figures on a dial attached to it. It was sometbins deficient, but the fine had been imposed by the jury as being a kind of scales which did not come within the desciiption of those pointed out by the act of Parliament. Mr-llorton said, that lie had purchased the scales from Alr. Alar- riott,who had got a patent for them. They had co0t him fourgulneas, and lie was not avare that he subjected himself to any perialty in uaing them. He had, since the jury objected to the scales, wholly discontinued the use of themn. The Court said, that the scales were contrary to the act of Par- lialiment, and the use of them subjected the party to a fine; but un. derall the circuinstances of the case, and Atr. Morton having ceasedt to usie them, thev woultd renit the fine.-Fine remitted. After some other cases of no motment, the Court adjoitrnied to imext month. COURT OF BrJRGESsEs, WESTMINSTER, DEc, 1. DEFICIENT WEIOUTS AMD MEASURES.