SECTION 1. All descriptions of oils sold under the names of sperm, spermaceti, lamp, summer, fall, winter and second winter oils, shall be deemed pure winter pressed, or summer strained, spermaceti oil. SEC. 2. All oils sold under the names aforesaid, which are adulterated with whale, lard, or any other oil of less value than pure spermaceti oil, shall be deemed whale oil; and the vender shall be liable to the purchaser for double the amount of the difference in value between pure spermaceti oil and whale oil, when the quantity sold exceeds five gallons, and four times the difference, when said quantity is less than five gallons, unless the proportions of the respective oils are disclosed to the purchaser at the time of sale. SEC. 3. Any person who shall sell any oil or oils commonly known under the names of sperm, spermaceti, lamp, summer, fall, winter, and second winter oils, which have been adulterated from pure spermaceti oil by a mixture of whale, lard or any other inferior oil, and shall not disclose to the purchaser the proportions of the oils of which it consists at the time of sale, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section, shall for each offence forfeit twenty-five dollars to the use of the person suing for the same. SEC. 4. All oils sold under any of the names mentioned in the preceding section, which shall have been mixed with tight-pressed oil, shall be deemed tight-pressed oil; and the vender thereof, or of tight-pressed oil under any of the names aforesaid, shall be liable to the purchaser thereof for double the value of the difference between the first quality of spermaceti oil and tight-pressed oil, unless at the time of sale the vender shall disclose to the purchaser the mixture aforesaid, and if not mixed, its quality; and if such disclosure shall not be made as aforesaid, the venders shall forfeit twenty-five dollars to the use of the person suing for the same. SEC. 5. The test of pure spermaceti oil shall be the Harris ole ometer. SECTION 1. The following parts of all neat-cattle purchased by the hundred weight or slaughtered by any person, such person having contracted to account for the same to the owner or seller of the same, shall be denominated weighable, viz.: the whole of the several four quarters, the hide, horns and tallow. SEC. 2. Any person slaughtering or weighing any neat-cattle, and being obliged to account for the same to the owner or seller thereof as aforesaid, who shall not weigh and account for all those parts of such cattle denominated weighable as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every offence twenty dollars. SEC. 3. The town weighers of neat-cattle shall weigh all parts of said cattle made weighable by the first section of this chapter, deducting therefrom for green weight not more than two pounds for every hundred pounds of the weight thereof. SEC. 4. The fees of such weigher shall be twenty-five cents per head for all cattle weighed; one half part of which shall be paid by the seller, and the other by the buyer thereof. CHAPTER 111. OF THE SALE OF BUTTER, MEAL, ONIONS, POTATOES, BERRIES SECTION 1. Every person who shall make or bring into this state any butter firkins or tubs, shall brand or mark each one of the same with the weight thereof, and with the initial letters of his name, in a plain and durable manner, before he offers the same for sale. SEC. 2. No person shall offer for sale any butter by the firkin or tub, unless each tub and firkin shall be branded or marked as aforesaid. SEC. 3. Every person who shall offer for sale any butter firkin or tub before the same shall be marked or branded as required in the first section of this chapter, or any butter by the firkin or tub, in any firkin or tub not marked or branded as aforesaid, or in any firkin or tub which shall weigh more than the mark or brand on it, allowing two pounds additional for the brine absorbed by the same, shall forfeit five dollars, unless there shall be a special contract in relation to the kind, quantity and quality of the article sold. SEC. 4. In the sale of Indian meal or rye meal by weight, the same shall be estimated at and after the rate of fifty pounds to the bushel. If any person shall sell a less number of pounds for a bushel, he shall forfeit ten dollars. SEC. 5. In the sale of potatoes by weight, the same shall be estimated at and after the rate of sixty pounds per bushel. SEC. 6. In the sale of onions and of all other root crops by weight, the same shall be estimated at and after the rate of fifty pounds per bushel. SEC. 7. Cranberries and all other berries hereafter sold, shall be measured by the strike or level measure - that is, in the same manner as flaxseed and other similar articles are measured. SEC. 8. If any cider or cider beer be exposed to sale in any cask containing less than thirty-one and a half gallons, the same, together with the cask, shall be forfeited. SECTION 1. All firewood offered for sale by the cord shall measure in quantity equal to a cord of eight feet in length, four feet in width and four feet in height, including one half of the kerf, and be well stowed and closely laid together. SEC. 2. Every person chosen by a town to be a corder of wood shall receive for cording and measuring, not exceeding twelve cents per cord, to be paid by the purchaser of such wood. SEC. 3. If any person shall sell any firewood by the cord in any quantity not well stowed and closely laid together, or shall fraudulently and falsely represent any quantity of firewood by him offered for sale to be a greater quantity, or shall sell the same for a greater quantity, than the same shall actually measure, or shall otherwise commit any fraud in the sale thereof, he shall forfeit five dollars. SEC. 4. All baskets used in measuring charcoal brought into any town for sale shall be of the following dimensions, to wit: nineteen inches in breadth in every part thereof, and seventeen and one half inches deep, measuring from the highest part of the bottom of the basket perpendicularly to a level with the top of the basket. SEC. 5. Every basket shall be sealed by the sealer of weights and measures of the town where the person so using the same shall usually reside, or of the town where such coal shall be so measured for sale, and shall also be well heaped. SEC. 6. Every person who shall measure charcoal offered for sale in any basket of other dimensions than as aforesaid, or not sealed as aforesaid, shall forfeit not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars. SEC. 7. The town councils in the several towns may appoint, as occasion may require, some suitable person or persons to seize and secure within their respective towns all baskets used for measuring coal that shall not be of the dimensions aforesaid and sealed as aforesaid, and may prosecute every person who shall be guilty of any violation of any of the provisions of this chapter; but no person shall be obliged to measure charcoal where the quantity shall be agreed upon by the buyer and seller. SEC. 8. Any sealer of weights and measures who shall seal any basket not being of the lawful dimensions, shall forfeit five dollars. SEC. 9. Any forfeiture accruing under the provisions of this chapter may be recovered by an action of debt or by complaint and warrant. CHAPTER 113. OF THE SALE OF FISH FOR MANURE. SECTION SECTION 1. Size of barrel, &c.; barrel to be sealed. 3. Penalty for measuring in barrel not 2. Penalty for sealing falsely. sealed. SECTION 1. When fish are sold by measure for manure, they shall be measured in a barrel or half barrel; the barrel containing twenty-eight gallons, and the half barrel fourteen gallons; which shall be sealed by a sealer of weights and measures. SEC. 2. If any sealer of weights and measures shall seal any barrel or half barrel which shall contain a less quantity than prescribed in the next preceding section, he shall forfeit fifty dollars. SEC. 3. If any person shall measure any fish sold by measure in any barrel or half barrel not sealed according to the provisions of this chapter, he shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence. TITLE XVIII. Of the Regulations of Trade. CHAPTER 114. Of partners and joint debtors. CHAPTER 115. Of limited partnerships. CHAPTER 116. Of principals and agents or factors. CHAPTER 117. Of auctioneers. CHAPTER 118. Of expressmen. CHAPTER 119. Of hawkers and peddlers. CHAPTER 120. Of petty chapmen. CHAPTER 121. Of legal interest. CHAPTER 122. Of bills of exchange and promissory notes. CHAPTER 123. Of weights and measures. SECTION 1. Whenever any copartnership shall be dissolved, it shall be lawful for any individual who was embraced in such copartnership, to make a separate composition or compromise with any one or all of the creditors of such copartnership. SEC. 2. Such composition or compromise shall be a full and |