| 1814.
CHAP. 106.
Provisos. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
brought to him to be assayed, marked or stamped, within ten days
after the passage of this act; Provided, that the maker or owner
thereof shall produce to the assayer aforesaid, a certificate, under
oath, duly administered, specifying the weight of each article, and
the number thereof, and that the said silver vessel or vessels, plate or
manufacture of silver, was or were manufactured in the city of Baltimore,
or precincts thereof, previous to the first day of August,
eighteen hundred and fourteen; And provided also, that the said
silver
vessel or vessels, plate or manufacture of silver, shall be respectively
stamped with the initials of the name of the worker or
maker thereof. |
Number of stamp
to correspond with
weight. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stamp which
shall be used by
the assayer for the marking or stamping of the silver vessel or
vessels, plate, or manufacture of silver as aforesaid, shall be
numbers corresponding with the number of ounces, pennyweights
and grains, of pure silver, contained in such articles to every
pound troy. |
Silver vessels, &c.
so marked, may be
sold. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the silver vessel
or vessels, plate
or manufacture of silver, so assayed, marked or stamped, may be
sold, exchanged, or offered or exposed to sale or exchange, in the
city and precincts of Baltimore, any thing contained in the act to
which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding. |
| Assayers fees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the asayer aforesaid
shall be entitled
to ask, demand and receive, for his own use, of and from the
person or persons whose property is required to be assayed and
marked, or stamped as aforesaid, the same compensation as is
provided for by the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement. |
Penalty for counterfeiting
stamps. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person whatsoever,
from
and after the passage of this act, shall cast, forge or counterfeit,
or cause or procure to be cast, forged or counterfeited, the stamps
or marks directed to be used in pursuance of this act for the stamping
of silver plate in the city of precincts of Baltimore, or shall mark
or stamp, or cause or procure to be marked or stamped, any
wrought plate of silver, or any wares of brass, or other base metal,
silvered over or resembling silver, with any mark or stamp, which
hath been or shall be forged or counterfeited at any time either before
or after the passage of this act, in imitation of, or to resemble
any stamp or mark directed to be used in pursuance of this act, or
shall transpose or remove, or cause or procure to be transposed or
removed, from one piece of wrought plate to another, or to any
vessel of such base metal as aforesaid, any stamp, mark or impression,
which may be made by or with any stamp or mark, directed
to be used in pursuance of this act, or shall sell, exchange,
or expose to odder for sale or exchange, any wrought plate of silver,
or any vessel of such base metal as aforesaid, with any such forged
or counterfeited stamp, mark or impression thereon, or any stamp,
mark or impression, which hath been or shall be transposed or removed
from any other piece of plate, knowing such stamp, mark
or impression, to be forged, counterfeited or transposed, or removed
as aforesaid, or shall wilfully or knowingly have, or be possessed
of any mark or stamp, which hath been or shall be forged
or counterfeited in imitation of, and to resemble any mark or stamp
to be used as aforesaid, every such person offending in any such or |
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