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(7) §. 30
King in Council may prescribe
marks for
Ingots, &c - and
when they are become
universal, make it
penal to possess an
ingot &c without
such marks
(7) §. 30. And whereas it is customary for the smelters
and metallic and semi-metallic masses when in their
the state of pigs, ingots, bars to which the same
are reduced brought by or in any other un-
wrought fashioned state (whether the same have been imported
or from foreign parts or brought to such beyond sea or smelted from the
otherwise reduced into ore or otherwise reduced into such unwrought unfashioned state any where in Great Britain) to have been
exhibit certain distinctive marks which have been put upon
them by the smelters founders or forgers or founders thereof
of which marks commonly and consist commonly in the whole
or in part of an indication of the name of the place where
where and of the person by whom or on whose account
the same have been smelted, forged or cast
and whereas if a metals in an molten unfashioned such unwrought state
were permitted not allowed to be bought or sold in case
of their not bearing and exhibiting such marks it would be
difficult for persons having unlawfully obtained any such
metallic masses to dispose of the such thereof by reason
that although however they might be able to cast or mill or cast the
same they might not be able to sufficiently effectually
to imitate to counterfeit such distinctive marks
Be
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