Plate Assay (Ireland) Act, 1807

Books shall be lodged by assay master quarterly with the Goldsmiths Company.

Inspection, &c. of such books.

9. And . . . the said assay master shall, within one month after the twenty-ninth day of September, the twenty-fifth day of December, the twenty-fifth day of March, and the twenty fourth day of June in each and every year, transmit and return to the said Company of Goldsmiths in Dublin and lodge with them all the said books kept by him containing the accounts of all the particulars aforesaid and of the duties received, and the duplicates of receipts given under this Act in manner aforesaid; and the said book shall at all times be open for the inspection of the said commissioners of inland excise and taxes, or of any person or persons authorized in writing by the said commissioners or any one of them; and the said commissioners or the person or persons so authorized by them shall be at liberty to take copies and extracts of the said books, or any part of them.