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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 127

Exemption from punishment where original offender made known to Companies.

127. Provided always, that if any person, having sold or exchanged, or pawned
or pledged, or attempted to sell or exchange, or pawn or pledge, or taken in
pawn or pledge, or exposed or kept for sale or exchange, or exported or kept
for exportation from [the United Kingdom], or imported into [the United
Kingdom], or attempted to export or import from or into [the United Kingdom],
or had in his possession, any barrel having thereupon any mark of any such
forged or counterfeit stamp or part of a stamp, or having thereupon any such
forged or counterfeit mark or imitation of a mark, or having thereupon any
mark or imitation of a mark so transposed or removed, joined or affixed,
shall, within three days after notice thereof given by either of the Two
Companies to him or left for him at his usual or then last place of abode or
business in [the United Kingdom], discover and make known to them the name and
place of abode of the maker of such barrel, or of the manufacturer or dealer
from whom such person bought, had, or received the same, then every such
person so making such discovery shall be exempted and discharged from the
punishment... incurred by him by reason of his having so sold or exchanged, or
pawned or pledged, or attempted to sell or exchange, or pawn or pledge, or
exposed or kept for sale or exchange, or exported or kept for exportation, or
imported or attempted to export or import, or had in his possession, such
barrel; nevertheless this provision shall not exempt any person from the legal
consequences of having parted with or of having had in his possession any such
barrel, knowing the same to be marked with the forged or counterfeit stamp, or
knowing the mark thereon to be forged, counterfeit, imitated, marked,
transposed or removed, joined or affixed, if such knowledge be in any
proceeding against him for any such offence duly proved.


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