Abstract
Petitioners Gardner and Downie claim the incorporation’s funds are insufficient to cover debts and charity, opposing respondents’ plan to abolish marking money without offsetting assay-office costs.
Appendix (from p. 15)
- Goldsmiths' Hall, London. Prices to be taken for Assaying and Marking Plate after the 28th of April, 1788.
- Extracts from Acts of Parliament for preventing Frauds in Gold and Silver Wares, and preserving the Standards appointed for Wrought Plate.
- Letter from Thomas Lane, Clerk of the Company of Goldsmiths, London (May 7th 1788).
