No. VIII. 22 Geo. II. c. 27. The provisions in the recited Act to extend to persons employed in the manufactures enumerated. Forfeitures to be inflicted as in the said Act. 6 'made; and if it shall appear to them, that reasonable time of notice was [No. VIII. (a.)] 31 Geo. II. c. 11.-An Act to amend an Act made in the third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for the better Explanation, and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the Settlement of the Poor, so far as the same relates to Apprentices gaining a Settlement by Indenture; and also to impower Justices of the Peace to determine Differences between Masters and Mistresses and their Servants in Husbandry, touching their Wages, though such Servants are hired for less Time than a Year. c. 11. intitled to a settlement where appren WHEREAS by an Act made in the third year of the reign of King Wil- No. VIII. (a) liam and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for the better Explanation, 31 Geo. II. and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the Settlement of the Poor, it is enacted, That if any person shall be bound an apprentice by indenture, and inhabit in any town or parish, such binding and inhabitation shall be adjudged a good settlement: And whereas since the making the Preamble. said Act, great numbers of persons have been unwarily bound apprentices by certain deeds, writings, or contracts, not indented, by which binding many of them have suffered great loss and damage, on account of their having been refused a settlement in such town or parish, where they have been so bound and resided forty days, and have been removed to the parish or place where their last legal settlement was before such apprenticeship, where they have had no encouragement to exercise their trades, or opportunity to gain a livelihood by their said trades to which they were so bound apprentices: For relief therefore of such apprentices, and for preventing the like mischief for the future; 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 no person who shall have been bound an Person bound apprentice, or who shall hereafter be bound an apprentice, by any deed, apprentice by writing, or contract, not indented, being first legally stamped, shall be deed, &c. liable to be removed from the town, parish, or place, where he or she shall though not have been so bound an apprentice, and resident forty days, by virtue of indented, beany order of removal, granted by two justices of the peace, of any county, ing first duly riding, division, city, borough, town corporate, or place; or by virtue of stamped, is any order of the justices at their general or quarter sessions, by reason or on account of such deed, writing, or contract, not being indented only. Provided nevertheless, That nothing herein-before enacted, shall extend, or be construed to extend, to set aside or make void, any judgement, order, or decree, which shall have been made as aforesaid, before the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight. And whereas by an Act passed in the twentieth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the better adjusting and more easy Recovery of the Wages of certain Servants, and for the better Regulation of such Servants, and of certain Apprentices; it is enacted, That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, all complaints, differences, and disputes, which shall arise between masters or mistresses, and servants in husbandry, who shall be hired for one year or longer, or which shall happen or arise between masters and mistresses and artificers, handicraftsmen, miners, colliers, keelmen, pitmen, classmen, potters, and other labourers, employed for any certain time, or in any other manner, shall be heard or determined by one or more justice or justices of the peace, for the place where such master or mistress shall inhabit: And whereas doubts have arisen whether the words any labourers employed for any certain time, or in any other manner, extend to servants in husbandry hired for a less time than one year; for obviating the said doubts, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Act, and all and every Recited Act clause and matter therein contained, shall from and after the said first day extended to of May, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, be deemed and con- servants emstrued to extend to all servants employed in husbandry, though hired for a less time than one year; any thing in the said recited Act of the twentieth year of his present Majesty's reign, or any other Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. ticed. Judgement, &c. to the contrary made before i May, 1758, not to be avoided hereby. Act 20 Geo. II. ployed in husbandry, though hired for a less time than a year. No. IX. 14 Geo. III. c. 44. 22 Geo. 2. repealed, con cerning the reeling short yarn. Penalties in flicted by this Act, for reeling short yarn. Form of conviction. [No. IX.] 14 George III. c. 44.-An Act to amend an Act, made in the twenty-second Year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hot Pressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures; and for the better payment of their Wages. nen, WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, LiFustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful combinations of Journeymen 'Dyers and Journeymen Hot Pressers, and of all persons employed in the 'said several Manufactures; and for the better payment of their Wages; 'certain punishments therein mentioned, are to be inflicted upon all per'sons who shall reel false or short yarn: And whereas it hath been found by experience, that the punishments directed to be inflicted by the said Act for recling false or short yarn are too severe, on which account offenders go frequently unpunished, and many honest industrious persons are deterred from spinning:' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the said recited Act, as subjects any person or persons to any punishment whatsoever for reeling false or short yarn, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. II. And, in order to prevent persons recling false or short yarn for the future,' Be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, if any person or persons shall reel false or short yarn, and shall be thereof lawfully convicted by the oath of the owner of such yarn; or in case such owner is one of the people called Quakers, then upon the solemn affirmation of such owner, or of any other credible witness or witnesses, or by the confession of the person or persons charged with such offence, before any one or more justice or justices of the peace of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where such offence shall be committed, or where the person or persons so charged shall reside or inhabit (which oath such justice or justices is and are hereby empowered and required to administer), shall, for the first offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty shillings, nor less than five shillings; and for the second offence, any sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings; and for the third, and every other offence, it shall and may be lawful to and for such justice or justices of the peace to commit the person or persons so convicted to the house of correction, or other publick prison of such county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place, there to be kept to hard labour for the space of one calendar month, and also to order the person or persons so convicted to be once publickly whipped at the nearest market town to where the offence was committed, and upon a market day; all which penalties and forfeitures shall go to the party aggrieved. III. And be it further enacted, That the justice or justices, before whom any offender shall be convicted as aforesaid, shall cause the said conviction to be made out in the manner and form following; that is to say: 'BE it remembered, That on the 'the year of our Lord day of in A. B. is convicted before me or us, of his Majesty's justices of the Peace, for [specifying the offence, and the time and ' place when and where the same was committed, and also specifying that it was the first, second, or third offence against this Act, as the case shall be.] 'Given under my hand and seal, or our hands and seals, the day and year 'aforesaid.' Which conviction the said justice or justices shall cause to be fairly wrote on parchment, and returned to the next general quarter session of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where such conviction was made, to be filed by the clerk of the peace, and remain and be kept among the records of such county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for any clerk of the peace where any such conviction shall be filed, as aforesaid, and he is hereby required, upon application made to him by any person or persons for that purpose, to cause a copy or copies of any conviction or convictions, filed by him under the directions of this Act, to be forthwith delivered to such person or persons, upon payment of one shilling for every such copy. No. IX. 14 Geo. III. c. 44. V. Provided nevertheless, That if any person or persons, who shall be Appeal. convicted, as aforesaid, shall be desirous of appealing to the next general or quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county, riding, city, or place, wherein the cause of complaint shall arise, such person may, at the time of such conviction, enter into a sufficient recognizance conditioned to try such appeal, abide the order of, and pay such costs as shall be adjudged by the justices at such sessions; and the said justices, at such sessions, shall and are hereby authorised and required to take cognizance of such appeal, and may affirm such conviction, and award such costs, as they the said justices shall think proper: And in case the same are not If costs be not paid, according to the order of the said justices, such costs may be reco- paid, may be vered by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person who ought levied by disto pay the same, by warrant under the hand and seal of any justice of the tress, &c. peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place, where such person shall be or reside; and if no goods and chattels belonging to such person can be found, sufficient to pay the costs, and the charges of making such distress, the said justices may cause the person to be committed to the common gaol of such county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place, there to remain without bail or mainprize for the space of three calendar months; and the determination of the said sessions shall be final, binding, and conclusive, to all intents and purposes: And no order Proceedings made concerning any of the matters aforesaid, or any other proceedings to not to be be had touching the conviction or convictions of any offender against this quashed, &c. Act; shall be quashed or vacated for want of form, or be removed by certiorari, or any other writ or process whatsoever, into any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster. [No. X.] 15 George III. c. 14.-An Act to explain and amend an Act, made in the fourteenth Year of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to amend an Act, made in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hot No. X. 15 Geo. III. c. 14. Preamble. Act 14 Geo. 3. After passing this Act the several penalties inflicted by Act 14 Geo. 3. on persons reeling short yarn, &c. to be le vied by distress of the offenders' goods; and if no goods suffi cient can be found, they are to be com mitted for one month. If persons think themselves ag grieved, they may appeal to the sessions; and the determination of the justices to be tinal. 22 Geo. 2. Pressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures; and for the better Payment of their Wages. WHEREAS by an Act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to amend an Act, made in 'the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hot Pressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures; and for the better Payment of their Wages; certain penalties therein mentioned are inflicted on persons convicted of reeling false or short yarn, but no provision is made for recovery of the said penalties, or of the costs and charges attending such prosecutions, by means whereof the good purposes intended by the said Act are rendered ineffectual;' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 from and after the passing of this Act, the several pecuniary penalties inflicted by the said Act upon persons who shall be convicted of reeling false or short yarn, together with the costs and charges attending such prosecutions, shall (in case the same are not paid according to the order of the justice or justices before whom such person or persons shall be so convicted) be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender or offenders, by warrant or warrants under the hand and seal, or hands and seals, of the justice or justices before whom such offender or offenders shall be so convicted, together with the costs and charges of making such distress and sale; and if no goods and chattels belonging to such offender or offenders can be found sufficient to answer the said penalties, together with the costs and charges of such distress and sale, then such justice or justices shall and may cause such offender or offenders to be committed to the common gaol, or house of correction, of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place, where such offence shall be committed, there to remain without bail or mainprize for the space of one calendar month, unless such penalties and forfeitures, and the reasonable charges of such distress and sale, shall be sooner paid and satisfied. II. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall think him, her, or themselves aggrieved by any thing done in pursuance of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for such person or persons to appeal to the justices of the peace, at the next general or quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county, riding, city, or place, where the cause of complaint shall arise; and the justices in their said general or quarter sessions, are hereby required to hear and determine the matter of every such appeal, and to make such order therein as to them shall seem reasonable, and according to the true intent and meaning of this Act; which determination of the said justices in sessions, on every and any such appeal, shall be and is hereby declared to be final and conclusive. [No. XI.] 17 George III. c. 56.-An Act for amending and rendering more effectual the several Laws now in being, for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and also for making Provisions to prevent Frauds by Journeymen Dyers. WHEREAS by an Act, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the |