Transcribed by Ann Selchick. Geo. THE CARLISLE PATRIOT, MAY 27th, 1865 POLICE PROCEEDINGS ___ TOWN HALL. - Saturday. (Before the Mayor J. HOWE, Esq., and C. HODGSON, Esq.) There was a case of assault, which was dismissed. The main and most melancholy feature of the Court’s work was the charges of systematic use of light weights by dealers in potatoes and coals. The foreman of Mr. SUTTON’s warehouse in Law Lane had to complain of 11 ½ lbs. deficient weight in a small quantity of coals purchased of one of the agents of the Silloth coal store. In the same way other men were summoned and fined for having light weights, and Mr. SKELTON (inspector) complained bitterly of the way in which poor people were robbed by unprincipled dealers. He said he did not know how they could keep up against it. He denounced, also, the system of hawking about coals in bags as open to the same objections. *****