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 OF CORNWALL. fll one moiety thereof to the King, or Lord Duke of Cornwall, and the other moiety to the use of the person suing for the same. And be it further declared and enacted, that the beam of the balance by which black tin, shall be received, or white tin delivered oujt of any of the smelting-houses, or blowing- houses, do not bow more at one end than at the other, and that each scale shall be sus- pended at an equal distance from the, center of the beam, and that the beam and scales shall be in all respects true and just. And if any person or persons shall receive black tin at any smelting-house, or blowing-house, or deliver from thence white tin by deceitful and untrue beams or scales, such person or persons convicted thereof upon plaint or information in the court of the stannar)% wherein the offence was committed, shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds, to be levied on his goods and chattels, one moiety thereof to the use of the King, or Lord Duke of Cornwall, and the other moiety theieof to the use of the person suing for the same. And if th^e are no goods or chattels to be found, whereby the said forfeiture may be levied, then the person so offending shall suffer imprisonment for the space of two months in the stannary-prison. And be it Supenrison of further declared and enacted, that it shall b^msr^ghts and may be lawful for the respective super- *^ «^^ visors of the smelting-houses and blowing- houses, some or one of them, and they are hereby required, in their several districts duly to view and examine the said beams, weights^ and scales once at least in every coinage- quarter, or oftener if they shall thmk proper. And