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Allowance of one sixth of duty on goods sent to be assayed in a rough state.
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7. And whereas gold and silver wares when sent to be marked and assayed are sometimes sent in so rude and so rough a state that the same in the finishing are greatly lessened in weight: Be it therefore enacted, that the said assay master, deputy assay master, or other officer to be appointed as aforesaid, whenever such plate shall be sent to be marked and assayed in any unfinished state, so that a diminution in the weight thereof must necessarily remain to be made by the worker or manufacturer thereof before the same shall be finished, shall, in respect of such diminution as aforesaid, make to the person or persons bringing such plate a deduction of one-sixth part from the weight, and an allowance of one-sixth part of the duty payable to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and shall at the bottom of the note or memorandum by this Act directed to be kept and filed express the deduction from the weight and the allowance of the duty accordingly: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall authorize any such allowance to be made on any quantity of silver plate or manufacture less in weight than one ounce troy, nor on any fractional part of an ounce.
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