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 352 C. 26. Anno duodecimo Georgii IL A. D. 1739. Witnefs or Witneffes, forfeit and pay the Sum of five Pounds, to be recovered by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, rendering the Overplus (if any there mall be) after deducting the Expence of fuch Diftrefs and Sale, to the Owners thereof; one Moiety of which Forfeiture (hall go to the Informer, and the other Moiety to the Poor of the Panfh where fuch Offence or Offences fhall be committed ; any thing in the faid Claufe, or in any former Law contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. Tufticesmay. y. Provided neverthelefs. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid refpeclive Juftices, where mitigate Penal- t | ley n^j] f ee c au fe 5 to mitigate or leffen any fuch Penalties according to their Difcretion. Appeal from VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall them to the think himfelf or themfelves aggrieved by the Determination of the Juftice or Juftices aforefaid, it fhall Amis? anc ^ ma y be l awuj ' f or uicn Perfon or Perfons to appeal to the General Quarter-Seflions of the Peace, to be next held for fuch County, City, Town Corporate, Liberty or Place, where fuch Offence (hall' be committed ; and that the Determination of the Juftices, or the major Part of them then and there made fhall be conclufive and final, to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever ; and that no Certiorari fhall be al- lowed to remove any Determinations or Proceedings as above directed. TwoClaufes VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the two Claufes in an Act made in in the Aft t he nr fl- Year of King James the Firft, intituled, An A5i concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoemakers, and lj* c ' 1,repe3 ~ other Artificers, occupying the cutting of Leather, _ which prohibit any Perfons dwelling in London, the Li- berties thereof, or within three Miles of the faid City, occupying wet curried Leather in their Art or Occupation, to put forth fuch Leather to be curried, but to fuch Perfons as are free of the Company of Curriers of the City of London, under Pain of Forfeiture of fuch Leather, or the Value thereof,; and alfo prohibiting any Perfons within the faid City, or three Miles Diftance. to put in any made Wares any curried Leather, before the fame fhall be fearched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers of London, and be fealed with their Seal, upon Pain of forfeiting for every Hide or Skin otherwife curried or employed, fix Shillings and eight Pence, and the Value of fuch Hide or Skin; fhall, from and after See 13 Geo.i. c.%. the faid twenty-fourth Day of June, be, and are by this prefent Act repealed and made void to all In- tents and Purpofes whatfoever ; any -thing in the faid recited Act or any other Act contained to the con- trary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. Privileges of the VIII. Provided neverthelefs, That nothing herein contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to ex- Curriers Com- tend, to leffen or take away any Power or Privilege given to the faid Company of Curriers by P an / " ot l iere " Charter or Grant, fo far as they may or can ufe or exercife ;he fame in the City of London or bx.lefiencd. Liberties thereof. PublickAa. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act fhall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be a Publick Act; and be judicially taken Notice of as fuch by all Judges, Juftices and other Perfons whatfoever, without fpecially pleading the fame. CAP. XXVI. An Act: for the better preventing Frauds and Abufes in Gold and Silver Wares. dtfn m theAa ' KT ^^ PEAS by an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King zg.-Ecti i.e. 20. ' VV Edward the Firft, made arnongft other Things for the affaying, touching and marking Vef- c,H. 4. c. 13.; < fels of Gold, it was ordained, That no Goldfmith within the King's Dominions fhould thenceforth 1 H x^c 2 C '^ ' ma k e an y Veflel, Jewel, or other Thing of Gold or Silver, but of true Allay, videlicet, Gold not ' worfe than the Touch of Paris; and Silver of the Sterling Allay, or better; and that no Silver VefTel ' fhould depart out of the Worker's Hands, till allayed by the Wardens of the Craft, and marked with ■' the Leopard's Head; and that the Wardens fhould go from Shop to Shop amongft the Goldfmiths, to ' affay if their Gold was of the Touch aforefaid, and if it was not, the fame fhould be forfeited ; and •' that all the goo 1 Towns of England, where Goldfmiths were, fhould be ordered by that Statute, as •' well as thofe in London ,; and that one (for the reft) from each Town fhould come to London, to be af- ' certained of the Touch-; and if any Perfon fhould offend againft that Statute, he fhould be punifhed ■'•' .-by Imprifonment, and R.anfom at the King's Pleafure : And whereas by another A6t of Parliament a Hen. 6. c. 14. t mac j e ; n t he fecond Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, concerning the Finenefs of Har- ,, ^ ' nefs of Silver, and the Marks with which it fhould be marked, it was amongft other Things ordained 4 ' '' c ' ' and eftablifhed, That no Goldfmith nor Worker of Silver within the City of London, fhould fell any ' Workmanlhip of Silver, unlefs it fhould be Fine as Sterling, except the fame fhould need Soder in ' the making, nor until the fame fhould be touched with the«Touch of the Leopard's Head, if it might -'.bear the fame, and alfo with the Workman's Mark, on Pain to forfeit double the Value ; and that f tfee Workman's Mark fhould be made known to the Wardens of the fame Craft : And whereas by iS Eliz. c. 15. ' another Act of Parliament made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, inti- 15 'Car'.i.'c. 7. ' tuled, An Ac! for Regulation of Abufes in Goldfmiths, it was enacted, That after the twentieth of April 1 iv. & M.Ji.i. <■ t } ien n ext, no Goldfmith fhould work, fell or exchange, or caufe to be wrought, fold or exchanged, 6 &7 W. 1. ' an Y Plate or Goldfmiths Ware of Gold Iefs in Finenefs than twenty-two Carracts, nor with more c. 17. ■' -' than neceffary Soder ; nor fhould make, fell or exchange any Plate or Goldfmiths Wares of Silver* 7 & %rr. 3. .<■ j e f s ; n Finenefs than eleven Ounces two Penny Weight ; nor put to file, exchange or fell any Plate %w c s 'or Goldfmiths Work of Silver, before he fhould have fet his own Mark thereto, if it might bear the (,W.. C.-/S... ■ ' fame, upon Pain to forfeit the Value of the Thing fo fold or exchanged : And whereas by another 12 vv. 3. c. 4. « Act of Parliament made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King William the ' Third, intituled., An Ail for appointing Wardens and Affay-mafters for ajjying wrought Plate, in the Cities