HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
90
This provides that the Goldsmiths, Silversmiths, and workers freemen of and inhabiting the Town of Newcastle, plate should be incorporated by the name of The Company of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, and were authorised to choose annually two persons as Wardens of the Company. All silver plate to be marked with the Arms of the Sect. 5. the previous Act and said Town and the other marks mentioned that an Assay Master should be chosen, who should take the oath before specified. And further that the Orders, Rules, pains and should be observed and enforced as before mentioned.* Sect. 4.
m
;
penalties
OLD STANDARD SILVER OF DUTY OF 6d. per
OZ. 2 DWTS. OZ. IMPOSED.
1 1
A.D.
1
Stat. 6
7 19.
George
I, c.
ii, Sect.
i.
REVIVED
Recites, that
it is
found by experience that the manufactures of silver which were made according to the old standard are more serviceable and durable than those which have been made according to the new standard; and therefore enacts, that the said old standard of silver plate, made after June i, 1720, shall be restored, revived, and take place instead of the said
new
standard. Enacts, that after the said June i, 1790, no goldsmith, silversmith or plateworker, shall be obliged to make silver plate according to the said new standard. Sect. 3. Enacts, that no person shall make any silver plate less in fineness than 1 1 ounces 2 pennyweights per pound troy, or Sect.
2.
sale, exchange, or sell any silver plate (unless wire, or things by smallness not capable of a mark) until touched, assayed, and marked in manner prescribed by the laws, for marking the new standard of 1 1 ounces 10 pennyweights fine in case the same standard had continued; and that all former laws for preserving the said new standard shall be put in execution for preserving the old standard. Grants to his Majesty a duty of sixpence per ounce on Sect. 4.
put to
all silver
plate imported into
by the importer and makers provide for the levying of
and made
in Great Britain, to be paid and subsequent sections
respectively
;
it.
Sect. 41. Recites, that it may be requisite, for encouraging the several manufactures of wrought plate, to continue both the new and the old standards, for the better accommodating all buyers of plate, and the workers and dealers therein and therefore enacts, that all wrought plate shall not be made less in fineness than II ounces 10 pennyweights, or ii ounces 2 pennyweights; which two different standards of wrought plate shall be severally marked with distinguishing marks, viz., plate of ii ounces 10 pennyweights, with the workman's mark, the warden's mark, the lion's head erased, :
and the Britannia and ;
*
plate of
1 1
ounces 2 pennyweights, with the
" The Statutes at Large," Vol. IV, page 91.