Massachusetts General Laws Part I. Administration of the Government (Ch. 1-182) Ch. 94, § 141

Fees for weighing cattle shall be paid by the vendor and, unless otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, shall be twenty cents for each of the first five cattle, fifteen cents for each of the second five, ten cents each from eleventh to the twentieth, inclusive, and five cents for each cattle weighed above twenty; also twelve and one-half cents for each certificate, which shall contain the weight of each of the cattle weighed for one person unless the vender requests a division thereof.