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Limitation of Actions.
General Issue.
Treble Costs.
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XV. And be it further enacted, That no Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons, for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, and the said recited Act, until after Thirty Days’ Notice in Writing shall be thereof given to the Guardians, Trustees and Wardens of the Gun-barrel Proof House of the Town of Birmingham, nominated and appointed by, or to be chosen and elected under and by virtue of the said recited Act, or their Solicitor for the time being, or to the Master or Warden of the Company of Gunmakers of the City of London for the time being, or after sufficient Satisfaction made or tendered, or after Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed, for which such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits shall be so brought; and all such Actions or Suits, shall be laid and tried in the County, City or Place where the Cause of Action shall arise, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, and every of them, may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the said recited Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial or Trials which shall be had thereupon, and that the Matter or Thing for or on which such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits shall be brought, was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act and the said recited Act; and if the said Matter or Thing shall appear to have been so done, or if it shall appear that such Action or Suit was brought before Thirty Days’ Notice was given, as before directed, or that sufficient Satisfaction was made or tendered or paid into Court as aforesaid, or if any such Action or Suit shall not be commenced within the time before for that Purpose limited, or shall be laid in any other County, City or Place than as aforesaid, then the Jury mail find for the Defendant or Defendants therein; and if a Verdict shall be found for such Defendant or Defendants, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, shall become nonsuited, or suffer a Discontinuance of such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, or if, upon a Demurrer or Demurrers in such Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, Judgment shall be given for the Defendant or Defendants therein; then and in either of the cases aforesaid, such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs, and shall have such Remedy and Remedies for recovering the same, as any Defendant or Defendants may have for the Recovery of his, her or their Costs in other cases by Law.
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