Firearms Act, 1815
FIREARMS ACT 1815 | ||
CAP. LIX. | ||
An Act for amending an Act: of His present Majesty, to insure the proper and careful Manufacturing of Fire Arms in England, and for making Provision for proving the Barrels of such Fire Arms. [12th May 1815.] | ||
53 G. 3. c.115. | ||
Using in progressive Stages of Manufacture of Fire Arms, Barrels not duly proved. | ||
Penalty. | ||
‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled Provision for proving the Barrels of such Fire Arms: And Whereas the Powers and Provisions of the said Act have been found in some respects defective and insufficient for the Purposes thereby intended, and the same cannot be effectually carried into Execution unless the Powers and Provisions thereof are amended;’ May it therefore please Your Majesty that it maybe enacted; and be it enacted by The King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, every Person who shall use or begin to use, or cause or procure to be used, or to be begun to be used, either by ribbing, break-off fitting, rough-stocking, or other Process, in any progressive State of Manufacture in the making, manufacturing or finishing of any Gun, Fowling Piece, Blunderbuss, Pistol or other Description of Fire Arms, usually called Small Arms, any Barrel which shall not have been duly proved and marked as proved at the Proof House of the Company of Gunmakers of the City of London, or at the Proof House established under the Provisions of the said recited Act (so long as such respective Proof Houses shall be maintained for proving and marking the Barrels of Fire Arms) or some Proof House belonging to His Majesty, or other Proof House to be established as a Public Proof House (and which Public Proof House His Majesty is hereby authorized and empowered to establish under such Regulations, as to the Care and Management thereof, as His Majesty shall think fit), shall respectively forfeit for each and every Barrel so used or begun to be used, or caused or procured to be used, or to be begun to be used, any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to be recovered and applied as hereinafter mentioned. |