Plate Assay (Ireland) Act, 1807

Assay master shall weekly pay duties to the Goldsmiths Company, who shall pay over the same to the collector of excise in Dublin, and shall deliver quarterly to the commissioners of excise copies of accounts, and pay to the said collector the balance due.

10. And . . . the said master shall once in every week, or oftener, if required by the said Company of Goldsmiths in Dublin, pay to the said company all and every sum and sums of money so received by him for and on account of the duties payable to his Majesty as aforesaid, which monies the said company shall within two days after the receipt thereof from time to time pay or cause to be paid to the collector of excise in the district of Dublin; and that the said Company of Goldsmiths shall within two months after the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seven deliver or cause to be delivered to the said commissioners of inland excise and taxes, or to some person or persons authorized by them to receive the same, true copies of the accounts herein-before directed to be kept and transmitted to the said company for the quarter which shall be completed to the said twenty-ninth day of September, and at the same time shall pay to the said collector of excise or such sum and sums of money as shall be the balance of the sums which shall have been received on account of the said duties on or before the said twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seven, if any such balance shall appear to be due, and from thenceforth shall from time to time within two months after the twenty-fifth day of December, the twenty-fifth day of March, the twenty-fourth day of June, and the twenty-ninth day of September in every year, or at such other times after the expiration of the said two months as may be appointed by the said commissioners of inland excise and taxes, deliver or cause to be delivered to the said commissioners, or to any person or persons appointed by them for the purpose of receiving the same, true copies of the accounts herein-before directed to be kept by such assay master and transmitted or returned to the said company for the quarter ending on such twenty-fifth day of December, twenty-fifth day of March, twenty-fourth day of June and twenty-ninth day of September; and shall at the same time pay to the collector of excise for the district of Dublin all such sum or sums of money as shall be the balance of the sums which shall have been received by the said assay master or other officer in the quarter ending as aforesaid on account of the said duties, if any such balance shall appear to be due.