Section II Commissioners to give Three Days' notice of time and place of Admeasurement.

Keels, &c. to be marked and nailed; Wains and Carts to be marked and nailed; Persons thereto appointed to take an Oath; Owners neglecting, &c; Penalty; Regulation as to Time and Place of such admeasuring, marking, and nailing.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any three or more of them shall cause all and every of the said Keels Boats Wains and Carts to bee admeasured accordingly and shall give three days notice of the time and place of such admeasurement to the Owner or Owners thereof and cause the said Keels and Boats soe admeasured to bee marked and nailed on each side the stem and sterne and midshipp thereof or otherwise as they the said Commissioners or any Three of them in their discretion shall direct and the said Wains and Carts to bee marked and nailed on the head and sides of the said Waines Carts or otherwise as the said Commissioners or any Three of them shall direct or by such persons as X1they shall bee by them thereunto appointed which persons soe appointed shall take an oath before the said Commissioners or any Three of them for the true and impartial performance and discharging the same which oath the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to administer and if the owner or owners of such Keels or Boats Wains or Carts shall after such notice neglect or refuse to have their said Keels Boats Wains or Carts soe admeasured they and every of them shall incurr the penalty hereafter mentioned. Provided that noe such Keel or Boat bee admeasured marked or nailed but between the Five and twentieth day of March and the Nine and twentieth day of September in any yeare nor shall bee admeasured marked or nailed to carry more then ten such chaldrons of Coals att any one time and that all such Keels and Boats belonging to the Port of New-castle shall bee admeasured marked and nailed at the New Key of the said Port and that the Keels and Boats belonging to the River Wear shall bee admeasured marked and nailed att Lambton Staiths upon the said River and not elsewhere and that all the Keels and Boates belonging to Culler-coates Seaton-sluce Blyth-nooke and all other places within the said Counties of Northumberland and Durham as alsoe all Wains and Carts to bee admeasured and marked by virtue of this Act shall bee admeasured and marked att such times and places as the said Commissioners or any Three of them shall direct.