The Hop (Prevention of Frauds) Act 1866
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His present Majesty to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops, after reciting that by the said last-mentioned Act it was, among other things, enacted that every Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops, before he should begin to put any Hops into any Bag or Pocket, should mark or cause to be marked on ...