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CAP. XI‘II.

A By-law regulating the Weight and Quality of Bread.

BE it enacted by the City Council of the City

of Charlottetown, as follows :—

I. All Bread made for sale, or sold or exposed for sale within the said city, except fancy bread, shall be made in loaves of four pounds, two pounds, I pound, and one-half pound avoirdupois, and of no other weights.

2. All such bread as aforesaid shall be well made and well baked, of good and wholesome Wheaten flour, to which no other preparation or ingredient shall be added than potatoes, common salt, pure water, eggs, milk and yeast ; and every person either master, mistress, servant, or journeyman, who shall knowingly ofi’end in the premises, shall be subject to the penalties of this By-law.

3. Any person in future who shall make bread for sale, or who shall send it out, sell or expose for sale any bread which shall be deficient in weight shall be subject to the penalties of this By-law for every loaf so deficient in weight; such bread so deficient to be brought before the City Police Court, within twenty—four hours after it had been baked, sold or exposed for sale, unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the said Court that such deficiency wholly arose from some unavoid- able accident in baking or otherwise.