Plate Assay Act, 1783

If of different standards not assayed unless sent in different parcels accordingly.

XII. And be it further enacted, That no gold manufacture made by the same maker, and brought to either of the said assay-offices, and composed of gold of different standards as aforesaid, shall be received at such assay-office to be assayed, unless the said manufactures be sent in different parcels according to the standards thereof, except as is herein excepted.