Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

LXXXIV. Persons bringing Plate, &c. to be coined pursuant to c. 19. ante, not entitled to Reward of 6d. per Ounce but upon making Oath as herein mentioned.

Unduly tendering Plate, &c. to obtain the said Reward; Penalty.

And be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons which att any time or times from and after the Fourth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and before the Fourth day of November then next ensueing shall bring any wrought Plate or any Vessells or other sort of Manufacture of Silver into His Majesties Mint or Mints to be coined pursuant to an Act of this present Session of Parliament intituled An Act to encourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be coined and for the further remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdome shall have or receive or be intituled to have or receive the Reward after the Rate of Six Pence per Ounce for such Silver or any Bill for the same as is mentioned in the said Act unlesse such Person or Persons do att the time of bringing or tendring such Plate make proof by his owne Oath or the Oath of some credible Person before the Master of the Mint or his Deputy or such Person as is or shall be authorized to Act for the Master of the Mint (who have hereby power to administer such Oath) That such Wrought Plate Vessells or other Manufacture of Silver were on or before the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety six wrought Plate Vessells or Manufactures of Silver of the Kinds so brought in respectively And in case any Person or Persons in order to obtain the said Reward upon the said Act shall bring into the Mint as aforesaid or tender there any such wrought Plate Vessells or Manufactures of Silver which were actually wrought or manufactured into the Kinds so brought in after the said Five and twentieth day of March That then the same or the Value thereof shall be forfeited to any Person or Persons that will informe and sue for the same and shall and may be recovered besides Costs of Suit by Action of Debt or of the Case Bill Suit or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record as aforesaid Any thing in this or the last mentioned Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.