LEVIN WINDER ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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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 Balti-
more, 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 ma-
nufacture of silver, shall be respectively stamped with
the initials of the name of the worker or maker there-

of.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stamp which
shall he used by the assayer for the marking or stamp-
ing of the silver vessel or vessels, plate, or manufac-
ture 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.

Number of
stamp shall
correspond
with weight.

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.

May be sold.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the assayer afore-
said shall be entitled to ask, demand and receive, for his
own use, of and from the person or persons whose pro-
perty 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 supple-
ment.

Assayer's fees.

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 di-
rected to be used in pursuance of this act for stamping of
silver plate in the city or 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 or
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 re-
semble any stamp or mark directed to be used in pursu-
ance 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, direc-
ted to be used in pursuance of this act, or shall sell, ex-
change, or expose, or offer 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 im-
pression, which hath been or shall be transposed or re-

Counterfeits--
penalty.