Section V Puncheon, Dye, &c. found in the Possession of any Person not employed in the Mints, may be seized and produced in Evidence, and together with those not produced destroyed.

Counterfeit Money, &c. produced in Evidence or otherwise, to be afterwards cut in Pieces.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Puncheon Dye Stamp Edger cutting Engine Presse Flask or other Tool Instrument or Engine used or designed for coining or counterfeiting Gold or Silver Moneys or any part of such Tool or Engine shall att any time after the said Fifteenth Day of May be hid or concealed in any Place or found in the House Custody or Possession of any Person or Persons whatsoever not then imployed in the coining of Money in some of his Majesties Mints nor having the same by some lawfull Authority that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Person or Persons whatsoever discovering the same to seize and hee and they are hereby required to seize the same and to carry them forthwith to some Justice of Peace of the County City or Place where the same shall be so seized and by him secured to be produced in Evidence against any Person or Persons who shall or may be prosecuted for any such Offence in some Court of Justice proper for the Determination thereof and after such Time as they or any of them shall have been produced in Evidence as well the same so produced as the other so seized and not made use of in Evidence and every of them shall forthwith by Order of that Court where such Offender or Offenders shall be tryed or by Order and in the Presence of such or some other Justice of the Peace in case there be no such Tryal be totally defaced and destroyed and if after the said Fifteenth Day of May any counterfeit or unlawfully diminished Money shall be produced in any Court of Justice either in Evidence against any Person or Persons for any Offence relating to the counterfeiting or unlawfully diminishing of Money or otherwise that then or im[m]ediately after Evidence given the Judge or Judges of such Court shall cause such Moneys to be cutt in Pieces in open Court or in the Presence of some Justice of the Peace and then to be delivered to or for such Person or Persons to whom the same of Right shall appertaine.