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A touch-warden or assistant assayer, appointed annually, and on vacaney,
70l. salary out of duties on wrought silver.
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XXXII. And whereas the attendance of a touch-warden, or an assistant assay-master, is necessary at the assay-office in Dublin, as well for the purposes of this act as for the assaying and levying the duties on silver ware: be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said company of goldsmiths to appoint annually, and from time to time, as often as there shall be a vacancy, a proper person who shall have been bred to and worked in the trade of a goldsmith or silversmith, to be touch-warden or assistant assayer; and that it shall and may be lawful for the officer appointed to stamp or mark plate by virtue of the said recited act,([a]
) to detain out of the duties on wrought silver plate, the yearly sum of seventy pounds, to be paid to such person for his salary in the execution of his office.
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