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 A. D. 1747. Anno vicefimo Georgii II, C. 45. 71 Acfts limited and appointed in that Behalf, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the fame; every fuch IVlafter and Miftrefs fhould, for every fuch Neglect, forfeit and pay double the Rates and Duties charged and dircifled to be paid and levied by the faid former Afts, or either of them (over and above all Penalties and Forfeitures thereby inflicted) for all Monies which fhould at any Time or Times, after the laid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five, be given, paid, contraifted or acrreed for, with or in Relation to every fuch Clerk,. Apprentice or Servant to be recovered, paid and ap- plied in fuch Manner as is therein mentioned : Aiid it was thereby further enadled. That if any Maftcr or Miftrefs of any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant refpectively, fhould negledt to pay the faid Rates and Duties fo charged by the (aid former Afts, or either of them, v/ithin the refpective I'imes therein li- mited in that Behalf, v/hereby the Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by the faid Act of the eighteenth Year of his prefent Majelly, would become charged upon and be payable by them refpedively ; and any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant refpeflively, fhould in that Cafe pay or caufe to be paid the Rates and Duties charged by the faid former Aifts or either of them, and alfo the Penalties and Forfeitures inflicted and incurred by the faid Adl of the eighteenth Year of his prefent Majefty, at any Time within one Year after the fame fhould fo refpectively become charged, incurred and made payable by virtue of the fame A(5t, as aforefaid ('fuch Mafters or MiftreiTes not having then paid the faid Rates, Duties, Penalties and Forfeitures refpe^rtively, although required by fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant fo to do) then and in fuch Cafe, it fliould and might be lawful to and for any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, within three Months after fuch Payment of the faid Rates, Duties, Penalties and Forfeitures refpedively by him, her or them as aforefaid, to demand of his or her Mafter or Miftrefs, or his, her or their Executors or Admi- niftrators, fuch Sum or Sums of Money as was or were paid to fuch Mafter or Miftrefs for or in refpedt of fuch Clerkfhip, Apprenticefhip or Servitude ; and in cafe fuch Sum or Sums of Money fliould not be paid within three Months after fuch Demand thereof made, it fhould and might be lawful to and for fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant to fue for and recover the fame, with full Cofts of Stiit, againft fuch Mafter or Miftrefs, his, her or their Executors or Adminiftrators, by Ax£tion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Informa- tion, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftmhifter^ wherein no Eilbin, Proteftion, Wager at Law, or more than one Imparlance fliould be allov/ed ; and every fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant fhould and might, immediately after Payment of fuch Rates, Duties, Penalties and Forfeitures as aforefaid, be difcharged from his, her or their Clerkfhip, Apprent'icefhip and Service refpectively, and from all Ac- tions, l^enalties, Forfeitures and Damages for not ferving the Time for which he, flie or they were re- fpectively bound, contradted for or agreed to ferve fuch A'lafter or Miftrefs refpectively : And it was there- by further enacted and declared. That every fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, fliould avail him or her- felf, and have fuch and the fame Benefit and Advantage of the Time he or fhe fhould refpectively have continued with and fcrved fuch Mafter or Miitrefs refpedively, as he or fhe could or might have done, in cafe of any Ailignment or turning over to any new or other Mafter or Miftrefs : And whereas feveral A'lafters and Miftrefles do ftill frequently negleft and omit to pay the faid feveral Rates and Duties paya- ble in that Behalf, whereby they have rendered themfelves and their refpedive Clerks, Apprentices and Servants, fubjed and liable to feveral Penalties, Forfeitures and Difabilities :' Now, for preventing tho faid Inconveniencies, and for the better enforcing the Payment of the faid Rates and Duties for the future. Be it enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Mafter or Miftrefs, who at any Time heretofore fhall FunlierTimc have negleded to pay the faid Rates and Duties for Clerks, Apprentices or Servants, fhall, on or before given for Pay- the twenty-ninth Day oi September one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven, pay the Double Rates and m^nt of Duties Duties, direded to be forfeited and paid by the faid Ad of the faid eighteenth Year of the Reign of his °"'"'^ '" '"^ Jsrefent Majefty, unto the Perfon or Perfons to whom the fame ought to be paid purfuant to the fam.e Ad, demJes'of and fhall tender to be ftamped fuch Indentures or Contrads fo omitted to be ftamped, at the fame Time, or Clerks and Ap- at any Time before the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven; then, prentices, upon and in fuch Cafe, the iame Indentures and Contrads fhall be good and available in Law and Equity, and I'aymentcf dou- may be given in Evidence in any Court whatfoever ; and the Clerks, Apprentices or Servants therein I^^tii^s, &c. named, fliall be capable of following and exercifuig their refpedive intended Trades or Employments, as fully as if the Rates and Duties fo omitted, had been duly paid within the refpedive Times in the laid for- mer Ads, or cither of them, limited and appointed; and all and every Perfon and Perfons, who fliall have Penalties incio incurred any Penalties by the Omiffions aforefaid, upon Payment of fuch double Rates and Duties as afore- ^'^^ by OmiHions faid, within the Time before limited, are hereby acquitted and difcharged from the faid Penalties ; any thing ^'''■'"'■§^<* "poa in the faid tv/o former Ads, or either of them, contained to the contrary notvvithftanding. duiIbleDutje' V. And it is hereby further enaded, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of [fune one toufand fe- ,. ven hundred and fortv-feven, if any Mafter or IViiftrefs, who by reafon of fuch Ncgled as afoiefaid, fliall ^/j°"^f.^p'^'.' become liable to forfeit and pay the faid double Rates and Duties as aforefaid, Giali refpedively pay the faid and Tenoei of double Rates and Duties unto the Perfon or Perfons to whom the fame ought to be paid in purfuance of the the Contr.ifts to- faid former 7ds, and alfo tender the Indentures or Cop.trads to be ftamped at any Time v/ithin two Years b- (Limped wiih- after the End or Determination of the Apprenticefliip or Service of any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant 'i;^-^ ears alter refpedively, and before any Suit or Profecution fhall have been comir.enced for recovering any of the Pe- Appien'ti'cefti nalties and Forfeitures infiided rnd incurred by the faid former Ads or any of them, then and in f.ich Cafe, &c. ' the Indentures or Contrads of fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant refpedively, fliall be good atid available theCr-n'raas to in Law and Equity, and may be given in Evidence in any Court whatfoever; and the Clerks, Apprentices ijegood, &c, or Servants thereiii named, fhall be capable of following and exercifing their refpedive intended Trades or Employments, as fully as if the Rates and Duties fo omitted, had been duly paid within the refpedive Times in the faid former Ads, or any of them, limited or appointed ; and all and every Perfon and Perfons, PcnaUics ir.rnr- who fhall have incurred any Penalties by the Omiifions aforefaid, upon Payment of fuch dcuble Plates antl rcdforOmifficna Duties as aforefaid, within the refpedive Times herein lait before limited in that Behalf, fliall be, and they '■'''Charged >ipon are ''■■'^""'{'•^ °^. duuble -Duties,