Section VI Blanching Copper for Sale, or mixing blanched Copper with Silver, &c. or taking or paying Counterfeit milled Money, &c.

Death.

And whereas several Mixtures of Mettals have been invented in imitation of Gold and Silver and blancht Copper is principally made use of in imitation of Silver and seldome if ever for any honest or good Purpose Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons whatsoever after the said Fifteenth Day of May shall blanch Copper for Sale or mix blancht Copper with Silver or knowingly buy or sell or offer to Sale blancht Copper alone or mixt with Silver or shall knowingly and fraudulently buy or sell or offer to Sale any malleable Composition or Mixture of Mettals or Minerals which shall be heavier than Silver and look and touch and wear like Standard Gold but be manifestly worse than Standard or shall take receive pay or putt off any counterfeit milled Money or any milled Money whatsoever unlawfully diminished and not cutt in Pieces att or for a lower Rate or Value than the same by its Denomination doth or shall import or was coined or counterfeited for that then all and every such Person and Persons shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of Felony and being thereof convicted or attainted according to the Order and Course of the Laws of this Realme shall suffer Death as in case of Felony.