34 Clothes, linen, and stores of the hospital to be marked.U.K.
The said commissioners of the said hospital at Chelsea shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to cause the clothes, linen, stores, and other articles belonging to the said hospital, capable of being marked, to be from time to time marked, stamped, or branded, with the words “Chelsea Hospital”, and from time to time, in case the said commissioners should sell or dispose of any of the said clothes, linen, stores or other articles, or should allow the in-pensioners, or any of them, to sell or dispose of any of the said clothes, linen, stores, or other articles, then the said commissioners shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to obliterate or deface the said marks, stamps, and brands respectively, by marking, stamping, or branding upon the said clothes, linen, stores, or other articles so sold or disposed of by the said commissioners, or so allowed by them to be sold or disposed of by the said in-pensioners, or any of them, the said words “Chelsea Hospital” reversed over and upon the said words before marked, stamped, or branded on the said clothes, linen, stores, goods, and articles respectively ; . . . F1, such mark, stamp, or brand, not obliterated or defaced as aforesaid, to be considered and taken as sufficient evidence, without further proff, that the clothes, linen, stores, goods, and articles so marked, stamped, or branded, and not obliterated or defaced as aforesaid, are the property of the said commissioners, . . . F1
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F1Words repealed by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), s. 33(3), Sch. 3 Pt. I