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 A.D.iysb' Anno vicefiino nono Georgii 11, C. 33. 707 ' Prejudice of Infants and others, have omitted to caufe Affidavits to be made and filed in the proper ' Offices, of the adual Execution of feveral Contracts in Writing to ferve as Clerks to Attornies and, ' Solicitors, within the Time hmited and exprefled by an Ad palled in the twenty-fecond Year of his ' prefent IVlajefty's Reign, whereby many Perfons may be in Danger of incurring the Difabilities in the ' faid A<51 mentioned ;' Be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon and Per- Further Tim- fons who have omitted to caufe fuch Affidavits to be made and filed as aforefaid, and who (hall on or be- allowed for the fore the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, caufe one or more [" ''^ Am^"*^ *"'" Affidavit or Affidavits to be made and filed in fuch Manner as diredcd by the faid Aft, (ball be, „rd,fExecm'oH and are hereby indemnified, freed and difcharged from and againft all Penalties, Forfeitures, Inca- ofcontr^ftsm pacities and Difabilities in the faid AA mentioned, incurred or to be incurred for or by reafon of p!^™ ^^ 'j^,!^'^ any Neglecit or OmifTion in caufing fuch Affidavit or Affidavits to be made and filed according to uponTedprclu- tbe Dire<5tion of the faid Adt ; and fuch Affidavit or Affidavits fo to be made and filed as aforeVaid, terf snd indem- fliall be as effedtual to all Intents and Purpofes as if the fame had been made and filed within the Time ""^■ limited by the faid Aift. V. Provided always. That this Ai5l, or any thing herein contained, fhall not extend, or be conflrued offices. &c. ai- to extend, to reftore or intitle any Perfon or Perfons to any Office or Employment, Benefice, Mat- ready avoided by ter or Thing whatfoever, already adlually avoided, by Judgment of any of his Majefty's Courts of Jned u-r'cx"-"* Record, or already filled up or enjoyed by any other Perfon ; but fuch Office, Employment, Benefice, cepted.' ' Matter or Thing lb avoided, or filled up and enjoyed, fhall be and remain in and to the Perfon or Perfons who is or are now intitled to the fame, as jf this A6t had never been made. CAP. XXXIII. An Adt to render more effeftual an Afb pafTcd in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George, to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages ; and alfo an A6t pafled in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefty, for the better Regu- lation of the Woollen Manufadlure, and for preventing Difputes among the Perfons con- cerned therein ; and for limiting a Time for profecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by the aforefaid A61, in cafe of the Payment of the Work mens Wages in any other Manner than in Money. iOeo. I. c. 34. ' TT THERE AS by an A»5V pafTed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefly King „gi ' VV George, intituled, J71 J/l to prevent unhwfid Combhiations of Workmen employed in the IVoollen ' Manufailures, and for the better Paymetit of their Wages, it is enafted. That if any Clorhier, Serge- ' Serges or Stuffs, or any ways concerned in employing Wool-combers, Wearers, or other Labour- ' ers in the Woollen Manufadlures, 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 offending fhall forfeit and pay the Sum of ten Pounds : ' And whereas feveial Profecutions have been carried on againft Offenders for Offences committed in ' Breach of the faid A(5t, in Manner therein prefcribed, but the Trials thereupon have been removed ' by Certiorari into fome or one of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weflminjier, and fuch Profecu- ' and J or limiting a Time for profecuting for the Forfeitures appointed by an Aol of the twelfth Year of his ' faid late Maje/ly's Reign, in caje of the Pay merit of the Workmens Wages in any other Manner than in Mo- ' riey, it is enacted, That every Maker of mixed, medley or white Broad Cloth fliall fatisfy and pay ' ing to the Numbtr cf Yards that the faid Chains are laid on the Warping Bars, and not other- ' wife, on Pain of forfeiting and paying for every Offence, contrary to the true Meaning tlitreof, the ' Sum of five Pounds : And whereas by reafon of the Smallnefs of the faid Penalties, and the expen- ' five Manner of recovering thereof, and the Want of proper l;v:ers to regulate the Wages to be For K „, ,, , poral, and Commons, in this prefent Parl.ament afTembled, and by the Autliority of tht? fame. That Tufiicesat tiie from and after the twenty-fourth Day of Jwie one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, it fhall be JviitiwdmasSef- lawful for the Juffices of the Peace afTembled at any of their General or Quarter-Selfions held next ^'i^^^'^'^^^^^.^ after Michaelmas yearly, to make Rates for the Payment of Wa^es to Weavers and others employ- Labour yearfy. ed in the Woollen Manufadures, according to the Number of Yards that rlie CJ.ains are laid upon ^^.^ (,^,^^-. -^ the Warping Bars, and not otherwife, which Rates fhall continue for one Year trom tlie making ref^cikdhy thereof; and the faid Juftices fhall yearly, in their faid General or Qiiarter-Seffions, either con- P<5"- «• «'T2' tinue fuch Raters for another Year, or alter them in fuch Manner as they (hall think fit; al- ^" '' ways obferving the Directions of the faid A<ft for that Purpofe as aforefaid ; ami if any Maker of 4X2 inixeck,
 * IV. And whereas divers Perfons, through Miftake, Abfence, or fome unavoidable Accident, to the
 * maker, Woollen or Worfled Stuff- maker, or Perfon concerned in making any Woollen Clothes, '
 * tions have been dropt upon account of the Expence of carrying them on : And whereas by an Adl
 * paffed in thq thirteenth Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefly, intituled, An Alt for the better Re- ,jGeo. j. c.--.
 * gulation of the Woollen Manufaelures, and for prcvcnUng Difputes among the Perfons concerned therein •;
 * the Weaver or Weavers employed by fuch Maker in or about the We;jvin^ the fame, accord-