LONDON: KNIGHT AND CO., FLEET STREET. DUBLIN: HODGES, FOSTER, AND FIGGIS, GRAFTON STREET. 1879. PREFACE. THE law relating to weights, measures, and weighing machines is now, for the most part, contained in the Weights and Measures Act, 1878," which came into operation upon the first day of January in the present year. The arrangement of this book follows closely the order of the Act itself, and notes have been added to the different sections which, it is hoped, will be of use both to those who have to obey the law, and to those who have to carry the provisions of the statute into effect. In preparing these notes, the Memorandum prefixed to the Act when passing through Parliament has been freely used; and much help has been found in the twelve Annual Reports of the "Warden of the Standards," issued during the years 1866-78. To make the book complete, the enactments imposing the obligation to keep weights in a mill, imposing penalties for false weights under the Excise Acts, providing for scales and weights at markets and fairs, and relating to weights and measures used in mines, have been given, and will |