Months next after the Fact committed, and not afterwards, and shall be laid brought and tried in the County City or Place where the offence was committed, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Suit or Action, Suits or Actions, shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if any Suit or Action shall be brought after the time before limited for bringing the same, or shall be brought in any other County City or Place than as aforesaid, then the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants, and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit, or suffer discontinuance, or if a Verdict shall pass against him or her, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover

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WHEREAS Knives, Forks, Razors, Scissors, Shears and other Preamble.

Cutlery Wares, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, forged and formed of wrought Steel, and Iron and Steel, have for many years been a great, and until lately an increasing branch of Trade in England; and such Articles being esteemed in Foreign Countries for their superior quality, great quantities thereof have been sent to Foreign Markets AND whereas a practice prevails of casting or forming in a mould from Cast Iron, Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears and other articles of Cutlery, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, and some of such articles are, though in reality of an inferior quality, by a chemical process previous to the finishing and polishing thereof, made to resemble so nearly the like sort of articles wrought of Steel, and Iron and Steel, as scarcely to be distinguishable from wrought Steel, and Iron and Steel, until actually used, even by persons skilled in the manufactory of Cutlery, Edge Tools, and Hardware : AND whereas deceptions have been and continue to be practised on the Public, not only by the great resemblance which Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears and other Cutlery Wares, Edge Tools and Hardware, so cast or made in a mould, have to the like sort of articles made and forged of the best wrought Steel, but also by the stamping or marking the words "Steel," "Shear Steel," "Cast Steel,” and "Warranted," on some of such articles, words which have hitherto been used to denote wrought Steel articles only, and by offering such articles, so stamped or marked, for sale, and by selling them, both at home and abroad, as and for Steel-wrought Wares: AND whereas deceptions have also been and continue to be practised, by inarking on Cutlery Wares, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, forged and wrought 316.

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of common Steel, and also of Iron and Steel, the words "Shear Steel," "Cast Steel," and "Warranted," to the intent that the same might pass for, and be sold, as and for such best Steel-wrought Wares:

FOR Remedy whereof, Bit Enacted by The KING'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, THAT from and after

it shall be lawful for all and every Person and Persons who shall make, forge, form or manufacture, or cause, direct or procure to be made, forged, formed or manufactured, by means of the Hammer, any Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears, and other articles of Cutlery, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, of wrought Steel, or of Iron and Steel, to mark, strike, stamp, grave or impress, or cause direct or procure to be marked, struck, stamped, graved or impressed, in or upon any part of every such Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears, and other articles of Cutlery, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, so forged and formed by means of the Hammer, of wrought Steel and of Iron and Steel, the figure or form of a Hammer, at any time after the forging and previous to the same respectively being ground or polished, so as to denote that such Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears, and other articles of Cutlery, Edge Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, are so formed by means of the Hammer, of wrought Steel and Iron and Steel, and so as to distinguish the same articles from such articles cast or formed in a mould.

And be it further Enacted, That from and after

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it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons to cast, mark, strike, stamp, grave or impress, or cause direct or procure to be cast, marked, struck, stamped, graved or impressed, in or upon any part of any Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears, or any other Cutlery articles whatsoever, Edge Tools or Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, which shall be cast or formed in a mould, or formed otherwise than by means of the Hammer, either at the time of casting or forming such articles in the mould, or otherwise than by means of the Hammer, or subsequently thereto and previous to the bonâ fide sale thereof to the user, the figure or form of a Hammer, or any symbol or device resembling a Hammer, or having any similitude thereto, or the words Steel, shear Steel, German Steel, refined Steel, cast Steel, or any other words heretofore used to denote wrought Steel, Cutlery Wares, Edge Tools, and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, or any word or mark whatever, indicating or purporting to indicate the same to have been formed with the Hammer; nor to have in his her or their possession, for the purpose of sale, nor to sell, expose or offer to sale, or cause, direct or procure to be sold, exposed or offered to sale, any Knives, Knife Blades, Forks, Razors, Razor Blades, Scissors, Shears, and other articles of Cutlery, Edge 5 Tools and Hardware requiring a cutting Edge, which shall have been

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