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4 therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case of such Neglect of the Magistrates of any such City or Borough, to set an Assize of Bread, or to alter any former Assize set by them by a new Assize, when such Alteration in the Price of Wheat or other Grain shall occur as is sufficient to authorise an Alteration of the last Assize of Bread according to the said Act, it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the Justices of the Peace of the County within which such City or Borough lies, to require the Chief Magistrate of such City or Borough, by a Writing under their Hands, to set the Assize of Bread, or to alter any former Assize of 'Bread, according as the Case shall occur; and in case such Chief Magistrate, or the other Magistrates of the said City or Borough, shall refuse or neglect, for the Space of ten Days after such Requisition, to set such Assize, or to alter any Assize then in Force ,when the Alteration of the Price of Wheat or other Grain does permit the same, then and in every such case, any two or more Justices or the Peace of such County shall have Power, and are hereby authorifed, after taking Proof of the Prices of the several Kinds of Grain, Meal or Flour, in Manner above directed, to set, ascertain and appoint an Assize of Bread for such City or Borough, which shall remain in full Force until altered by the Magistrates thereof, or in case of their Neglect, by any two or more of the said Justices of Peace.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Clause, Matter and Thing contained in the aforesaid Act of the thirty-first Year of his late Majesty's Reign. shall remain and continue in full Force, in that Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland, except in so far as the same is altered by this Act.

HEREAS there have been and are divers Officers, Mariners, Soldiers and Marines, Who have served his late Majesty, or his present Majesty, in the late Wars by Sea and Land, some of which are Men that used Trades, others that were Apprentices to Trades who had not served out their Times, and others, who by their own Industry have made themselves apt and fit for Trades; many of which, the Wars being now ended, would willingly imploy themselves in those Trades which they were formerly accustomed to, or which they are apt or able to follow and make use of, for the getting their Living by their own Labour, but are or may be hindered from exercising those Trades in certain Cities and Corporations, and other Places within this Kingdom, because of certain By-laws and Customs of those Places, and of the Statute made in the fifth Year of Queen, prohibiting the Use of certain Trades by any Person who hath not served as an Apprentice to such Trade for the Space of seven Years': For Remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the; Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by  the Authority of the same, That all such Officers, Mariners, Soldiers and Marines, who have been Soldiers and Marines, who at any Time imployed in the Service of his late Majesty, or of his present Majesty, since twenty-ninth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, and have not since deserted the said Service; and also the Wives and Children of such Offficers, Mariners, Soldiers and Marines; may, set up and exercise s}uch Trades as they are apt and able for, in any Town or Place within the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, without any the Wives and Children Let, Suit or Molestation of any Person or Persons shall become actually chargable to such Parish or Pace; and if any such Officer or Officers, Mariner or Mariners, Soldier or Soldiers, Marine or Marines, or the Wife or Child of any such Officer,Mariner, Soldier or Martine, who shall be sued, impleaded or indicted in any court whatsoever within this Kingdom, for using or exercising any such Trades as aforesaid, then the said Officer or Officers, Mariner or Mariners, Soldier or Soldiers, Marine or Marines, or any Wife or Child of any such Officer,Mariner,Soldier or Marine, making it appear to the same court where they are so sued, impleaded or indicted, that the have served his late or present Majesty as aforesaid, or that he, she or they, is or are the Wife or Child of such Officer, riner