; and in such

and retam a n his or their se my person tav rous or withing, her of them, i

but such per

is apprentice said master in

d arts or trai

pprentice

of servit ical: id arts and n

large, anti 1 paring

offence.

in pledge

several part

Mathemati ies respective duly served a

Instrume mplemen oresaid,

e trade

Watts

Work, Material, Tool and Tools, entrusted to him or her to work upon
or repair as aforesaid, until the work done thereon or therewith by such
Workman or other Person shall be duly paid for and lawfully discharged
in the current Coin of the Realm; and if any person shall pay or offer
to pay to any Workman, or for any work done or to be done or executed
in the said art or trades of Clockmaking, Watchmaking, Mathematical
35 Instrument making, or Engraving, or in any part or branch thereof, in any
commodity, or in any other manner or way whatsoever than in the current
Coin of the Realm only, and not otherwise, every Person so offending,
and for each and every time he and she shall so offend shall forfeit
and
pay the sum of
of lawful Penalty.

money.

How Clocks,
Watches, &c. shall

.

And be it also Enacted, That from and after the day of no person or persons whatsoever shall export be entered for exor endeavour to export, any Clock or Watch without first making true portation. entry thereof at His Majesty's Custom House, and previous to shipping the same endorsing on the cocket of the said entry a specific declaration of the description, mark and number of every package in which any such 36 Clock or Watch shall be contained, together with a particular account of the number and description of the Clock and Watches therein contained, upon the Penalty of forfeiting and the sum of

Workmen not to be but Money only. paid in Commodities,

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Provided always, and be it Enacted, That any Shipowner or Master against whom any such Penalties shall have been levied for such clan destine shipping of such Clock or Watch, not having been privy to the contents of the Package in which the same shall be or have been contained as aforesaid, shall have his or her remedy against the proprietor or other shipper of such Clock or Watch, Clocks or Watches, so clandestinely exported or endeavoured so to be as aforesaid, and shall recover his or her damages and full costs of suit in the recovery thereof.

of lawful money for every offence
to the contrary thereof; nor shall any Shipmaster or Owner or other
person, at any time after the passing of this Act, take or receive on board
any ship or vessel, by the way of trade or for sale, or upon freight or for
exportation to parts or places beyond the seas, any Clock or Watch,
until a distinct and true entry of every such Clock and Watch, and the
description thereof, and of the mark and number of the package, if any
such there be, in which the same is contained, shall first have been duly
made at His Majesty's Custom House as aforesaid, upon the penalty of
37 forfeiting
for each and every such offence and time Penalty.
of offending; and the like Penalties and Forfeitures shall also be paid and
borne by the Shipmaster or Owner of every vessel in which any Clock
or Watch shall have been clandestinely exported, or in which any such
Clock or Watch shall be found, not having been, previous to the shipping
thereof, duly entered for exportation as aforesaid.

And be it also Enacted, That all and every the Penalties, Punish-
ments and Forfeitures, in and by the several Acts and Laws now in force,
touching and concerning the manufacture working and making of wares
282.
C
of

Penalty.

Ship Masters, &c.

not to receive any

such on board with

out due entry, &c.

Remedy for the Ship Master, &c. suffering any penalty, and not being party to such contraband Shipping.

Penalties on Persons

&c. on or from Gold and Silver Wares, repealed.

of wrought Gold and Silver, directed to be inflicted upon Persons adjudged
to have been guilty of removing the Goldsmith's Hall Mark or Marks
from one piece or ware of wrought Gold or Silver that has been lawfully
assayed and marked, and transposing or attaching the same to any other
piece of Gold or Silver work or ware that has not been so lawfully assayed 3.
and marked, shall cease and determine, and all such Penalties Punish-
ments and Forfeitures are hereby repealed, made void, and of no effect.

Wrought Gold
Wares to be assayed
and marked in

day of

And be it also Enacted, That from and after the no Manufacture, Work or Ware of wrought Gold, London, Edinburgh, which by any Act or Law now in force shall, previous to the sale or

or Dublin only.

exchange of the same by the maker thereof, be required to be touched,
assayed and marked, shall not be so touched, assayed, or marked, but at
one or other the Assay Office of the respective Companies of Goldsmiths
or Wardens of the Touch in London, Edinburgh or Dublin respectively,
where the same Manufactures, Works and Wares shall be tried and
assayed, touched and marked, with the Marks, and by, under, and subject 40
to such rules and regulations as by the Acts and Laws now in force
are appointed; nor shall any such Wares as aforesaid be assayed for
the purpose of being marked, nor any such Hall-marked, in
any other
Assay Office, City, Town or Place whatsoever, any law, usage or custom
to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding.

Against transposing
the Marks on or from
one ware or piece of
work to another.

And be it also Enacted, That from and after the

day of

no person or persons whatsoever shall exchange or remove the marks of any Goldsmith's Hall or Assay Office, on, off or from any piece of work or ware, or from any part of any such piece of work or ware of wrought Gold or Silver, that has been lawfully assayed and marked, nor transpose, put or attach the same marks or marked piece of Gold or Silver work or ware, to any other piece of Gold or Silver work or ware, that has not been so lawfully assayed and marked as aforesaid; nor shall any person or persons put or attach the same marks, 41 or Hall-marked piece of work or ware, to any other piece of work or ware of Gold or Silver than the proper work and ware which was or shall have been lawfully assayed and Hall-marked, as and for part of the same work, ware and manufacture, other than and excepting only needful repairs to any old or worn work, ware or manufacture; nor shall any person or persons increase the weight of any piece of work or ware of wrought Gold or Silver, at any time after the same shall have been assayed and Hall-marked as aforesaid, by adding or attaching thereto any 42 other Gold and Silver that has not been so assayed and hall-marked, other than and excepting any needful repairs to any old or worn work, ware or manufacture as aforesaid; upon pain that each and every such person being upon the oath or oaths of any one or more competent witness or witnesses, before any one of His Majesty's justices of the peace as aforesaid, lawfully convicted of any such offence, he or she shall forfeit and pay the sum of for each and every such piece of work and ware, in or upon which or in respect whereof any such transposition or offence as aforesaid shall have been done or committed; and also

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And be it also Enacted, That from and after the day of no person or persons whatsoever shall add, put or attach any solder or stuffing to any such plate work or ware of Gold or Silver, after the same shall have been produced at the Assay Office, and examined, assayed and hall-marked, and previous to the sale or exchange thereof; nor shall any person make up or cause to be made up or wrought, any work or ware whatsoever of Gold or Silver inferior to one or other the standards for wrought Gold and Silver respectively, as by the laws now in force are appointed; nor shall any person make up or cause to be wrought, any work or ware, or part or piece of or for any work or ware of Gold or Silver, that by reason of the smallness or delicacy of the workmanship thereof, cannot without damage be assayed and receive the touch and the hall-marks thercon, but he or she shall duly put therein and in every piece and part thereof, a full and lawful proportion of fine Gold or of fine Silver respectively, as the said ware or manufacture shall purport to be, and according to one or other of the standards respectively by law appointed and required to be used in manufactures of wrought Gold and Silver respectively; nor omit to put or stamp upon each and every such piece of work Makers Mark to be or small Gold and Silver wares as aforesaid, a proper distinguishing mark wares. of the initial letters of the christian and surnames of the maker of such small wares and work, and which distinguishing mark shall be duly entered at and in the Assay Office or Goldsmith's Hall nearest unto the place of residence of such maker or worker of small wares as aforesaid; 45 nor shall any person use any fraud or deceit, nor conceal in the internal or other part or parts of any ware of Gold or Silver, any Gold or Silver inferior to the lawful standard for such work or ware; nor any base metal, nor any stuffing, nor more than a proper quantity of solder to attach together the pieces and parts of such work or ware; and which proper quantity of solder shall be judged of and determined by the Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths respectively nearest unto whose Assay Office any dispute or cause of dispute touching the premises shall be or arise, such Wardens respectively at all times hereafter previous to taking upon them or either of them the said office of Warden, 46 being or having been practical working Goldsmiths or Silversmiths, and

put upon all small

being duly elected, appointed and sworn to the lawful exercise of his and
their said office and offices respectively, upon the Penalty of forfeiting Penalty.
to and for the proper use of
the person who will seize, convey and sue for the same, before any one
or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Peace acting in or
for the County, City or Place where such Offence shall have been com-
mitted, and the sum of
of lawful Money for

each and every such Offence.

1

( 11 )

also shall by such justice of peace, by warrant under his hand and seal,
be committed to the common gaol of the same county, city or place,
there to remain the full space and time of

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No Gold or Silver in

ferior to the Standard

to be wrought into any ware.

And be it also Enacted, That from and after the twenty-ninth day of May next ensuing, no person whatsoever shall work or make or cause to be 282. made

Small wares to be wrought of the lawful Standards.

Against concealed
Silver wares.

frauds in Gold and

Wardens to determine the quantity of solder.

And to prevent the same from being

used to watch cases until duly Hall marked.

Penalty.

All Pendants made before the 29th day of May next, to be freely sold or exported, whether marked or not.

made or wrought, any Gold or Silver Pendant, or pendant Bow for a Watch- 47
case, less in fineness than one of the standards by the laws now in force
appointed for wrought plate, or sell exchange or expose to sale any such
Gold or Silver Pendant, or export the same out of this United Kingdom,
or solder or otherwise attach the same to any Watchcase of Gold or Silver
(such Watchcase Pendant and pendant Bow respectively having been made
after the said twenty-ninth day of May) until such Pendant and Bow shall
have been lawfully marked with the mark of the worker or maker thereof,
together with some one or more of the marks by the laws now in force
required to be used for the marking of Watchcases of Gold and Silver re-
spectively, upon pain that every such person or persons for every such 48
offence shall forfeit and pay the sum of

Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed or taken to prohibit the free sale or exportation of any Watch with a Pendant attached thereto, the cases of which Watch and which Pendant respectively shall have been made before the said twentyninth day of May, notwithstanding such Pendant may not have received any of the marks by this Act or any other law now in force directed to be impressed on Pendants of Gold or Silver for Watchcases.

Gold and Silver in which any concealed fraud is suspected may be cut and assayed.

Work found upon
Assay worse than
Standard, to be

broken and re-
delivered to the

Owner without other the purpose of such ware being assayed and touched, and upon assay

penalty.

and trial thereof upon three succeeding working days duly made, the said
work, ware or manufacture shall be found and adjudged worse in fineness
than one or other of the standards for work and wares of wrought Gold
and Silver respectively lawfully appointed, every such insufficient work,
ware and manufacture shall be broken cut or otherwise utterly defaced,
and the materials thereof shall by the warden or officer of such Assay
Office be re-delivered to the Owner or Owners thereof, or the person by
him her or them, by writing under his her or their hand or hands, 50
authorized to demand and receive the same; and such delivery shall be
made without any further or other pain penalty let or hinderance what-
soever, to or upon the maker or proprietor thereof, other than such
breaking and defacing of the workmanship as aforesaid.

And provided always, and be it further Enacted, That whensoever any work, ware or manufacture of wrought Gold or Silver shall be sent to or delivered at any Goldsmith's Hall or Assay Office by law established for

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Provided also, and be it Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Assayer or other chief officer of the several Companies of Goldsmiths, Wardens of the Touch, and Assayers respectively, at the several Assay offices by law appointed and established for the purpose of assaying and marking of wares and manufactures of wrought Gold and Silver respectively, to cut and examine, or cause to be cut and examined, any piece or parcel of work, ware and manufacture, brought to be 51 assayed as aforesaid, wherein or in the construction whereof such Assayer or other officer shall suspect any concealed fraud, covin or deceit, either in the interior or other parts or construction of such work, ware or manu

If any fraud is found facture; and if upon trial and assay lawfully made, any concealed fraud

therein

shall be found or discovered in such work, ware or manufacture, the

maker

vely tar Pendant rker or

the law xpose to se

the law of Golia ersons in

in this

case of fro

maker thereof shall forfeit and pay the sum of
every such piece of work, ware or manufacture, so found to be fraudulently
or deceitfully wrought.

for Penalty.

Provided always, and be it Enacted, That if no fraud or deception be found in such work, ware or manufacture, so cut and examined as afore52 said, the Assayer or other Officer as aforesaid shall, out of the public funds and monies received in the said Assay Office, immediately pay unto the Workman aggrieved, the full value of the workmanship, and all loss and damage by such Workman sustained from and by reason of the cutting and defacing of his said work, ware or manufacture as aforesaid.

And provided always, and be it Enacted, That if any Assayer or other Officer or Person shall act or do contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, or shall unlawfully spoil or unnecessarily deface or injure any work, ware or manufacture brought to be assayed at the public Assay Office as aforesaid, there being no fraud or deficiency in the Gold or 53 Silver thereof, such Assay Officer or other Person shall pay to the Person

or Workman thereby aggrieved, his or her especial damage sustained, and
all Costs of Suits in recovering the same, before any one or more of His
Majesty's Justice or Justices of Peace acting in or for the County, City or
Place wherein such offence shall have been committed.

And be it further Enacted, That if any Person or Persons whatsoever
from and after the
shall enter at
day of
His Majesty's Custom House, for the purpose of exporting to Foreign
parts, by way of merchandize, any work, ware or manufacture of wrought
Gold or Silver made within this realm, and upon the making whereof
the several duties by law appointed have been duly paid and satisfied,
54 and such Person shall desire to draw back and have repaid to him or her
such portions of the said duties on such work or wares as by law are
allowed to be drawn back on the exportation thereof, that in every such
case the Customer, Searcher or other chief Officer of His Majesty's
Customs, at the Port in which such Gold or Silver wares shall be so en-
tered for exportation, shall put his seal upon every Package containing
such Gold or Silver ware, and shall, at the expense and risk of the
55 intending exporter, transmit such package to the Goldsmiths Hall or
Assay Office wherein the said work or ware was marked, and paid the
duty on the manufacture thereof, where the same work or ware being ca-
pable to receive a mark, shall be again marked with a mark by the
Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths in London, to be from time to
time appointed and ordained, to testify by such mark that the same work
and ware has been entered and marked for exportation; and the drawing
back of the duties thereon as aforesaid, and being so marked, the same
work and wares shall in like manner be sealed up in a package by the
56 Assay officer, and by him at the cost, expense and risk of the intending

exporter, re-conveyed to His Majesty's warehouse of the Custom House
from whence the package so came to be marked as aforesaid, and such
work and ware of wrought Gold and Silver may then lawfully be exported,
and the duties thereon drawn back and repaid, subject to such provisions
282.
D

as

If no fraud is found

in such work or ware, the Workman

to

be paid his damage

and costs.

to sent to be

Assay officers doing unnecessary damage assayed, shall pay the especial damage

to the Person injured

To prevent frauds in drawing back the duties on Gold and

Silver Plate exported, and re-importing and selling the same without duty.