Plate Assay (Ireland) Act, 1807

Assay master, &c. shall be sworn.

4. And . . . the said assay master, and every deputy assay master, or other officer to be appointed for the purposes of this Act for the time being, before he shall be empowered to mark such plate, shall be sworn to the due and faithful execution of his office in assaying such plate, and stamping or marking the same, pursuant to this Act; which oath shall and may be administered by the said commissioners of inland excise and taxes for the time being, or any one or more of them, or by any justice of the peace, who shall give to such assay master a certificate thereof.