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55 G. 3. c. 115 § 4. in part repealed
Company of Guardians, &c. of Gun Barrel Proof House of Birmingham incorporated.
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XVII. And be it further enacted, That so much and such Parts of the said recited Act as enacts that the Lord Lieutenants of the respective Counties of Warwick, Worcester and Stafford, and the Persons serving in Parliament for the said Counties respectively for the time being, and Robert Wheeler, John Adams, Thomas Archer junior, Richard Sutherland, John Heely, John Oughton, William Ryan, Bartholomew Redfern, John Williams Keene, John Smith, William Allport, John Jones, George Jones, Gad Parsons, Joseph Bunney, and their Successors, to be chosen in manner thereinafter directed, should be a Body politic and Corporate, and called or known by the Name of “The Guardians, Trustees and Wardens of the Gun-barrel Proof House of the Town of Birmingham,” for the Purpose of proving, or causing to be proved, in the manner directed by the said recited Act, all Barrels for Guns, Fowling Pieces, Blunderbusses, Pistols, and every other Description of Fire Arms which mould be brought to the Proof House at Birmingham to be proved according to the Provisions of the said recited Act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and that, from and after the passing of this Act, the Lord Lieutenants of the respective Counties of Warwick, Worcester and Stafford, and the Persons serving in Parliament for the said Counties respectively for the time being, and Robert Wheeler, John Adams, Thomas Archer junior, Richard Sutherland, John Heeley, John Oughton, William Ryan, Bartholomew Redfern, John Williams Keene, John Smith, William Allport, John Jones, George Jones, Gad Parsons, Joseph Bunney, the High and Low Bailiff for the Town of Birmingham for the time being, mid alt Acting Magistrates residing within Seven Miles of the Town of Birmingham, and their Successors to be chosen in mariner directed by the said recited Act, shall be and they are hereby declared to be a Body Politic and Corporate, and shall be called or known by the Name of “The Guardians, Trustees and Wardens of the Gun barrel Proof House of the Town of Birmingham,” for the Purpose of proving or causing to be proved, in the manner directed by the said recited Act, all Barrels for Guns, Fowling Pieces, Blunderbusses, Pistols, and every other Description of Fire Arms which shall be brought to the Proof House at Birmingham to be proved according to the Provisions of the said recited Act.
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