Standard of Silver Plate, etc. Act 1696

V.

Master of every Mint, &c. once in 14 Days, to affix in some Public Place where a Mint is, a particular Account of Plate, &c. brought in, coined, &c. Penalty.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in every City Towne or Place where a Mint is or shall be established or imployed for the coining of the said Plate and for the recoining of hammered Money or either of them and in every City Towne or Place where a publick Office shall be appointed by His Majesty for the taking in of wrought Plate as aforesaid the Master or Worker of such Mint or Mints his Deputy or Deputies or the Persons so to be appointed for such publick Offices respectively shall once in every Fourteen Days during the continuance of the said Service cause publication to be made in writing to be openly affixed and exposed whereby all Persons concerned may be informed of the Quantities of wrought Plate or ha[m]mered Money so brought in how much thereof respectively shall from time to time have been made into new Moneys and how much thereof shall then remain in the Mint or such publick Office not coined under the Penalty of forfeiting the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds to any Person or Persons that shall sue for the same and to be recovered by Action of Debt or of the Case Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.