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Penalty on assay master, &c. and clerk, &c. of company for neglect of duty.
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13. And . . . if any assay master, deputy assay master, or other officer shall neglect or refuse to keep such books and accounts, or to give such receipts as by this Act he is required to do, or to return and lodge the said books or accounts in manner by this Act directed, or to receive the said duties and sums of money or to pay over the same in manner by this Act directed or if the said Company of Goldsmiths in Dublin shall refuse or neglect to deliver or cause to be delivered the copies of the said accounts, or to pay over the said duties and sums of money in manner aforesaid, every such assay master, deputy assay master or other officer, and the clerk or accountant of the said company respectively shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, together with double the amount of the sum of money or duty so received by such assay master, deputy assay master, or other officer under the direction of by authority or pretence of this Act, or which such assay master, deputy assay master, office, clerk, accountant, or other person ought to have received according to the directions of this Act.
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