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 A. D.I 749^ Anno vicefimo fecimdo Georgii II. C. 27, 153 ' ing three Months; and if any Wooll Comber, Weaver, Servant or Perfon^ hired, retained or employed ' in thefaid Art or Myftery, (hall wiifully damnify, fpoil or deftroy (without the Confent of the Owner) ' any of the Goods, Wares, or Work committed to his Care or Charge, or wherewith he fhall be intruft- ' ed fuch Offender being thereof convifled, fliall forfeit and pay to the Owner or Owners of fuch Goods ' or'Wares fo damniiied, fpoiled or deftroyed, double the Value thereof ; to be levied by Diftrels and Sale of 5 Parties ao-o-rieved for the fame: And it is, by the faid laft-mentioned Ad:, alfo further enacted. That every ', full Wages, or other Price agreed on, in good and lawful Money of this Kingdom, and fhall not pay the ' or Parties ago-rieved, to iffue their Warrant or Warrants, under their Hands and Seals, for levying fuch ^ to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the Space of fix Months, or until he, ftie or they fliall pay fuch, *.fter or other Perfon fhall receive any bodily Hurt, for not complying with, or not conforming, or not fub- .' other Perfon concerned in the Woollen Manufafture, or threatening to burn, pull down, or deftroy any ' in twelve Calendar Months next after any fuch Offence committed, ihaJl be adjudged guilty of Felony, ' and fhall be tranfported for feven Years to fome or one of his Majefty's Colonies or Plantatior.s in Aine~ '* any Manufaftures made up of Wool], Furr, fleinp, Flax, Cotton, Mohair, or Silk, or of any of the feveral before recited Claufes in the faid Aft, made in the twelfth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign,'" s '•eciied and all the Provifions, Regulations, Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures, therein contained, fliall, from and'^^'' to extend _.,-.. /-i-ff^ ^ ^~f ,,-1^ .1, 1/- ., ». to l^erfons frn- '*ployed in the after the faid tv/enty-fourth Day of yi.'«^ one thoufand feven hundred and forty-nine, extend, and be (,qj-|_'^ ' "'°"= "- ftrued, deemed and adjudged to extend to Journeymen Dyers, Journeymen Hot Preffers, and all other Per- Manufaaurts Cons whatfoeyer, employed in or about any of the Woollen Manufaftures of this Kingdom, ar,_d alfo toenumeiated. Vol.. VIL X Journey-
 * the Offender's Goods and Chatties, by Warrant or Warrants under the Hands and Seals of any two
 * . or more Jufticcs of the Peace, within their refpeclive Jurifdiflions ; and for want of fufficient Di-
 * ftrefs, fuch Juftices fliall commit the Party or Parties offending to the Houfe of Corredion, there to be kept
 * to hard Labour, for any Time not exceeding three Months, or until Satisfaction be made to the Party or
 * Clothiert oerge Maker, or Woollen or Worfled Stuff Maker, or Perfon concerned in making any Wool-
 * len Cloths, Serges or Stuffs, or concerned in employing Wooll Combers, Weavers, or other Labourers
 * in the Woollen Manufaclury, fhall pay to all Perfons by them employed in_the Woollen Manufafture, the
 * faid Wages, or other Price agreed on, or any Part thereof, in Goods, or by Way of Truck, or in any
 * other Manner than in Money, or make any Deduftion from fuch Wages or Price, for or on Account of any
 * Goods fold or delivered, previous to fuch Agreement, by any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever; And for the
 * more eafy Recovery of the faid Wages, or Price agreed on, any two or more Jufticesof the Peace, within
 * their refpeclive Jurifdiftions, are authorized and required, upon Complaint made forthat Purpofe, to fum-
 * mon before them the Party or Parties offending, and for Non-payment of fuch Wages, or Price agreed
 * on, in Money as aforefaid, or fufficient Satisfaftion given for the fame, to the good Liking of the Party
 * Wages or Price, due as aforefaid, by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chatties, rendering
 * the Overplus to the Owner ; and for v.'ant of fufEcient Diftrefs, to commit the Party or Parties offending
 * to the common Gaol of the County, City, Town or Place, where fuch Offence fliall be comm'itted, there
 * V/'ages, or Price agreed on, in Money as aforefaid, or give full Satisfaftion for the Payment of the fame,
 * to the good Liking of the Party grieved : And it is, by the faid laft-mentioned Aft, alfo further enafted,
 * That if any Clothier, Serge Maker, Vv^oollen or Worfted Stuff Maker, or Perfon concerned in making
 * any Woollen Cloths, Serges or Stuffs, or any way concerned in employing Wooll Combers, Weavers or
 * other Labourers in the Woollen Manufa£tury, fhall pay any Perfon or Perfons employed by them, their
 * Wages, or other Price agreed on, or any Part thereof, either in Goods, or by way of Truck, or in any
 * other Manner than in Money, every Perfon fo oftending, fhall alfo forfeit and pay the Sum of ten Pounds,
 * one Moiety thereof to the Informer, and the other Moiety to the Party or Parties aggrieved, to be levied
 * by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods as aforefaid, rendering the Overplus (if any be) to the Owner :
 * And it is, by the faid laft-mentioned Aft, alfo provided. That it fhall be lawful for any Perfon aggrieved,
 * by any Order or Orders to be made by any two or more Juftices of the Peace as aforefaid, to ap-
 * peal to the Juftices of the Peace at the next General Quarter-Seffions to be holden for the County, City,
 * Divifion, Parifh or Place, where fuch Order fhall be made, giving reafonable Notice of fuch Appeal, the
 * Reafonablenefs of which Notice fliall be determined by the Juftices at the Quarter-Seffions to v/hich fuch
 * Appeal is made ; and if it fhall appear to thern, that reafonable Time of Notice was not given, then they
 * fhall adjourn the faid Appeal to the next Qiiarter-Seflions, and then and there finally hear and determine
 * the fame ; and the Juftices, who in the General Qiiarter-Seffions fhall hear the Matter, fhall have Power
 * to award reafonable Cofts to either Party, as to them fhall feem juft : And it is, by the faid laft-mentioned
 * Aft, alfo further enafted. That if any Perfon or Perfons fliall aflault or abufe any Mailer Wooll Comber,
 * Mafter Weaver, or other Perfon concerned in any of the Woollen Manufaftures, whereby any fuch Ma-
 * mitting to any fuch illegal By-laws, Ordinances, Rules or Orders aforefaid ; or if any Perfon or Perfons
 * fhall write, or caufe to be written, or knowingly fend, or caufe to be fent, any Letter, or other Writing
 * or Meffage, threatening any Hurt or Harm to any fuch Mafter Wooll Comber, or Mafter Weaver, or
 * of their Houfes or Out-houfes, or to cut down or deftroy any of their Trees, or to maim or kill any of
 * their Cattle, for not complying with any Demands, Claims or Pretences of any of his or their Work- -
 * men, or others employed by them in the faid Manufafture, or for not conforming, or not fubmitting to
 * any fuch illegal By-laws, Ordinances, Rules or Orders as aforefaid, every Perfon fo knov/ingly and wil-
 * lingly offending in the Premiffes, being thereof lawfully convifted, upon any Indiftment to be found with-
 * rica, by fuch Ways and Means, and in fuch Manner, and under fuch Pains and Penalties, as Felons in
 * other Cafes are by Law to be tranfportcsd : And whereas it is neceffary that the faid feveral Provifions and
 * Regulations in the faid lail in Part recited Aft, fliould be extended to Journeymen Dyers, Journeymen
 * Hot Preffers, and all other Perfons employed in the Woollen Manufaftures of this Kingdom, and alfo to
 * Journeymen, Servants, Workmen and Labourers, employed in the making of Felts or Hats, and in the
 * Manufaftures of Silk, Mohair, Furr, Hemp, Flax, Linnen, Cotton, Fuflian, Iron, and Leather, or
 * faid Materials mixed one with another ;' Be it therefore enafted by the Authority aforefaid, 1'hat the faid The Provlfiops