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Impression, with makers name and abode registered in assay-office paying 5s.
and assayer to impress on pewter or copper said impression, &c.
no person entitled to have manufacture assayed or stamped ‘till said requisites performed,
nor if marked with any other mark or punch,
nor unless with the mark of standard.
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XI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful on or after the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four aforesaid, for every person making (or causing to be made) any gold manufacture or gold manufactures, to enter an impression of his or her new mark or punch, marks or punches made as aforesaid, together with his or her respective name and respective place of abode in either of the said assay-offices, upon paying the sum of five shillings to the assayer or wardens of such office, who shall, and are hereby required to make on a plate or sheet of pewter, or of copper, an impression or impressions of such mark or punch, marks or punches; and also to make an entry of such mark or punch, marks or punches, with the name and place of abode of the owner or owners thereof in a book or books carefully to be kept for that purpose, if such owner or owners be resident in Dublin or New Geneva; and that no person shall be entitled to have any gold manufacture made or caused to be made by him or her, assayed or stamped at either of the said assay-offices until and after the same shall have been stamped as aforesaid by the maker, and until and after such impression and entry shall have been made at such office of the mark or punch of the said person, which denotes as aforesaid the particular standard of such gold manufacture; and that no gold manufacture shall be assayed or stamped at either of the said assay-offices, if the said gold manufacture be marked with any other mark or punch, but such as is duly entered as aforesaid; and that no gold manufacture shall be assayed or stamped at either of the said assay-offices, unless such manufacture of gold be marked with the mark or punch, which denotes as aforesaid the true standard of the said gold manufacture.
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