The Hay and Straw Act 1856
[29th July 1856.] WHEREAS many Frauds and Abuses are committed in the Cities of London and Westminster, and other Places in the Vicinity thereof, in binding and false Packing Hay and Straw, and the Laws are insufficient for preventing the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows