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HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND PIERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 82

Meters and weighers licensed by undertakers or Customs only to be employed.

82. When a sufficient number of meters and weighers have been appointed by
the undertakers, under the powers of this and the special Act, the master of
any vessel, or the owner of any goods shipped, unshipped, or delivered within
or upon the harbour, or dock, or pier, shall not employ any person other than
a weigher or meter licensed by the undertakers, or appointed by the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs, to weigh or measure the same; and if
in such case any person other than a meter or weigher licensed by
the undertakers, or a meter or weigher appointed by the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Customs, shall weigh or measure any such goods as aforesaid, such
person, as well as the person by whom he shall be employed, shall for every
such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and the
weighing or measurement of any such goods by any such person shall be deemed
illegal.

And with respect to the byelaws to be made by the undertakers:

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