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 40 LAWS OF THE STANNARIES exhibit unto the steward of the stannary- court respectively, where his blowing-house lieth, the names of such blowers as they have entertained to keep their blowing-houses, and if they shall change and retain any new blower after Midsummer and before the end of March, they shall likewise give in the name of such as shall be retained or changed, at the first court after such retainer, upon pain of ten shillings for every default herein. Mov^ ^ 7" ^^ agree, constitute, and ordain that every blower, before he shall be admitted to blow in any blowung-house, shall be sworn in one of the stannary-courts that he shall not make, nor with his knowledge, or con- sent, suffer to be made any falsified tin by artificial mixture, or by casting in any block of tin any baser metal than tin, and that he shall deal justly between man and man, as near as he can, in their turnings and other- wise, and shall take a constat or certificate, that he hath been sworn under the hand of the steward of the court before whom he was sworn. «. Blower to g. And wc further agree, constitute and bring into court ,. 1.1 ^iii ri certificate of tin ordaui that the said blowers, or one ot them. Mown. gj^r^u bring, into the stannary-court respec- tively, twice in the year, a list in writing, which shall contain the just number of blocks, slabs, and spoonfuls of tin, which have been blown in the said houses, with the names of the owners of them for whom they were blown ; the first certificate to contain the tin blown from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of October inclusive, and the second