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Overplus of necessary expences, applied to prosecute offenders;
if any remaining, then to the company or decayed brethren.
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XXI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in case the said sums of money hereby allowed to be taken by the company of goldsmiths in Dublin, for the assaying, or the assaying and stamping of gold manufactures, shall be more than sufficient to defray the necessary expences of the assay-office of the said company, then the overplus money shall be applied by such company to the prosecution of offenders against this act; and that if such prosecutions shall not require the whole of such overplus, then the overplus money may be applied to the use of such company, or the support of the decayed brethren thereof.
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