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Receiving Barrels of Fire Arms for Purpose of making Guns, & c. not having passed Proof House and been proved.
Penalty.
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III. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passing of this Act, every Person who shall take or receive, or cause or procure to be taken or received, or permit or suffer to fee received on his behalf any Barrel, for the Purpose of making or manufacturing, or proper or applicable for the making or manufacturing of any Gun, Fowling Piece, Blunderbufs, Pistol, or other Description of Fire Arms usually called Small Arms, directly or indirectly from the Manufacturer thereof, or from any other Person on his behalf, except from or through some one or other of such Proof Houses as aforesaid, or unless the same shall have been first duly proved and marked as proved at the Proof House of the Company of Gunmakers of the City of London, or the proof House established under the Provisions of the said recited Act (so long as such respective Proof Houses shall be maintained, for proving and marking the Barrels of Fire Arms) or some other Proof House belonging to His Majesty, or other Public Proof House established as a Public Proof House by Law, shall forfeit for each and every Barrel so received, or caused or procured to be received for the Purpose, or proper or applicable for the Purpose aforesaid, any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to be recovered and applied as hereinafter mentioned.
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