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 172 C. 25. Anno feptimo Georgii II. A. D. 1734. Provifb relating toWhite Cloths. Mill-man may detain the Cloth till Pay- ment of the Duties impofed by the former Aift. el. Penalty on Mill-man de- taining the Mo- ney appointed to be paid to the Treafurer. Perfons who advanced Mo- ney to procure the Aft 11 Geo. 1. c. 24. how to be repaid. The additional Duties till Re- payment of lush Monies* the Sum of twenty Shillings ; which faid Penalties fhall be recovered and applied in the fame Manner as the other Penalties are herein directed. V. Provided alfo, and it is hereby declared, That no Mafter or Owner of white Woollen Broad Cloth ihall be fubject to any Penalties inflicted by this or the former Act, relating to the Breadth of the fame, after fuch white Cloth (hall be put into hot Water, or any Liquors, in order to be dyed. ' VI. And whereas by the faid A6t it is provided, That there lhall be paid to the Matter or Occcu- ' before it fhall be carried from the Mill, a Seal of Lead, and riveting the fame, and ftamping thereon ' the Length and Breadth of every fuch Cloth, in the Manner therein directed, two Pence by the Owner ' of every fuch Cloth ; one Penny whereof is by the faid Act appointed to be paid to the Treafurer of ' the faid Weft Riding for the time being, to be applied, by Direction of the Juftices of the Peace at ' their General Quarter-Seffions, towards the Salaries of Searchers by them to be appointed by virtue ' of the faid Act; but no Provifion is in the faid Act made to enforce the Payment, either of the faid ' two Pence to the faid Mafter or Occupier of the faid Mill, or of the faid Penny to the faid Treafurer ' of the faid Weft Riding :' It is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-four, in cafe any Owner of fuch Cloth ihall refufe or neglect upon Demand to pay to the Mill-man, Mafter or Occupier of fuch Mill, fuch two Pence for every whole Cloth, or one Penny for every half Cloth ; it fhall be lawful to and for the faid Mill-man, Mafter or Occupier of fuch Mill, to detain and flop fuch Cloth until fuch two Pence for every whole Cloth, or fuch Penny for every half Cloth, fhall be to him paid : And in cafe any Mill-man, Mafter or Occupier of fuch Mill, fhall refufe, or by the Space of ten Days next after Demand thereof, neglect to pay to the faid Treafurer of the faid Weft Riding one Penny for every fuch whole Cloth, and one Half-penny for every fuch half Cloth fo fealed and ftamped at fuch Fulling- mill, as aforefaid (Oath being, of fuch Refufal or Neglect, made by one or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes, before one or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace for the faid Weft Riding, or any Corpo- ration within the fame, fuch Juftice not being a Merchant or Trader in the Woollen Aianufacture, and which Oath the faid Juftice or Juftices is and are hereby authorized to adminifter) then every fuch Mill- man, Mafter or Occupier of fuch Mill fhall, for every fuch Refufal or Neglect, forfeit the Sum of five Pounds, to be paid to the faid Treafurer, and to be applied towards the Salaries of the faid Searchers;, and then and in every fuch Cafe it fhall be lawful to and for fuch Juftice or Juftices, by Warrant under his and their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, to levy by Diftrefs and Sale of the Goods of the faid Mill-man, Mafter or Occupier of fuch Mill, fo refufing or neglecting to pay fuch Penny for every fuch whole Cloth, or fuch Halfpenny for every fuch half Cloth, as aforefaid, as well the (aid Sum of five Pounds, as the faid one Penny for every fuch whole Cloth, or the faid Halfpenny for every fuch half Cloth fo refufed or neglected to be paid ; and in cafe fufficient Diftrefs cannot be found, then and in fuch Cafe to commit the Offender or Offenders to the Houfe of Correction within the faid Weft Riding, there to be kept to hard Labour for the Space of one Month. ' VII. And whereas feveral Sums of Money have been borrowed and taken up at Intereft by divers ' Clothiers, which Sums have been expended and difburfed in and about the obtaining of the faid ■* Act of the eleventh Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, and in endeavouring to procure a Bill,, ' plaining, amending, and making more effectual the faid Act, to pafs into a Law, which neverthelefs ' did not pafs, and feveral Sums of Money have been and will be expended and dilburfed in obtain- ' ing this prefent Act :' Now it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That all and every Perfon or Perfons, to or by whom any Money is or fhall be due, owing, or difburfed, upon the Account above-mentioned, lhall and may, at the next Quarter-Seffions to be holden for the faid Weft Riding, after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-four, deliver in their refpective Bills or Accounts of their refpective Difburfements, Debts, and Demands then due to them refpeflively, and make Oath (or being a Quaker or Quakers, make a folemn Affirmation) of the Truth thereof ; and upon fuch Accounts, fo delivered and proved as aforefaid, the faid Juftices are hereby au- thorized and required to allow fo much of the faid Bill or Bills, as fhall appear and feem to them to be reafonable, and to order and direct the Money arifen by the fealing and ftamping of Cloth, which ihall be then remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer of the faid Weft Riding (after deducting thereout fuch Salaries as ihall be then due to the Searchers, if any fuch Remainder there ihall be) to be im- mediately iffued and paid unto the feveral Perfons, who upon fuch Proof ihall be intitled to the fame, in proportion to the refpective Sums fo proved to be due to them refpectively, with fuch legal Intereft for any Sum or Sums of Money expended in and about the obtaining the faid former Act, or endea- vouring to procure the faid Bill to pafs into a Law, as the faid Juftices fhall think reafonable, and which the faid Treafurer is hereby required and directed, upon fuch Order, to ilTue and pay ac- cordingly. VIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That when and as any Money arifing by the ftamping of -Cloth or otherwife, by virtue of this or the faid former Act, ihall come into the Hands of fuch Trea- furer for the Time being, the fame fhall, from time to time, by fuch Order of the Juftices, at their Quarter-Seffions to be held next after Eafter in every Year, be iffued and applied to the feveral Per- fons intitled to the fame on the account afore-mentioned, in the Proportion aforefaid, until the whole Debts and Demands of fuch Perfon and Perfons refpectively ihall be fully fatisfied and difcharged. IX. And it is hereby further enacted, That every Clothier or Maker of Broad Cloth within theJaid Riding (hall pay, or caufe to be paid, to the Mill-man, the further Sum of two Pence for every whole Cloth, or one Penny for every half Cloth, which fhall be made or fulled within the faid Riding, to be 8 by
 * pier of every fuch Fulling-mill, for affixing, or caufing to be affixed at each End of every Cloth,
 * which in the fifth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty was brought into Parliament, for ex-