Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms: Explaining the Principles of the Science of Gunnery, and Describing the Newest Improvements in Fire-ArmsGreener, William
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Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms: Explaining the Principles of the Science of Gunnery, and Describing the Newest Improvements in Fire-Arms
Greener, William
Firearms; Gunnery
12. Every person who places upon or joins or affixes to any barrel any
such mark or part of a mark so cut or severed:
13. Every person who, with intent to defraud, uses any genuine stamp
already or hereafter provided or used by either of the two companies
for the marking of any barrel:
14. Every person who forges or counterfeits, or by any means produces
an imitation upon any barrel of any mark, or of any part of any mark,
of any stamp of a foreign country registered by the two companies
pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
C. Every person committing any of the following offences shall for
every such offence be subject to a penalty as follows, to wit:
1. Every person selling or exchanging, or exposing or keeping for
sale, or exporting or importing, or attempting to export or import
from or to England, or having in his possession without lawful excuse
(the proof whereof shall lie upon him), any barrel having thereupon
any mark of any forged or counterfeit stamp or part of a stamp already
or hereafter provided or used by either of the two companies for
marking any barrel, or having thereupon any forged or counterfeit mark
or imitation of a mark of any stamp or part of a stamp so provided or
used, or having thereupon any mark of any stamp or part of a stamp so
provided or used, such mark having been transposed or removed thereto
from any other barrel, shall for every such barrel so sold or
exchanged, or exposed or kept for sale, or exported or imported, or
attempted to be exported or imported, or so in his possession, forfeit
not exceeding twenty pounds:
2. Every person selling or exchanging or exposing or keeping for sale,
or exporting or attempting to export from England, any small arm, the
barrel or barrels whereof are not under this Act duly proved and
marked as proved, shall for every such barrel forfeit not exceeding
twenty pounds:
3. Every person fraudulently erasing, obliterating, or defacing, or
fraudulently causing to be erased, obliterated, or defaced from any
barrel, any mark or any part of any mark of any stamp already or
hereafter provided or used by either of the two companies for the
marking of barrels, shall for every such offence forfeit not exceeding
twenty pounds:
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