lonies or plantations in America, by such ways, means and methods, and in such manner and under such pains and penalties, as felons in other cases are by law to be transported. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall, by day or by night, break into any house or shop, or enter by force into any house or shop, with intent to cut or destroy any serge or other woollen goods in the loom, or any tools employed in the making thereof, or shall wilfully or maliciously cut or destroy any such serges or woollen goods in the loom or on the rack, or shall burn, cut or destroy any rack on which any such serges or other woollen goods are hanged in order to dry, or shall wilfully and maliciously break or destroy any tools used in the making any such serges or other woollen goods, not having the consent of the owner so to do, every such offender, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without benefit of clergy. No. IV. 12 Geo. I. c. 34. Breaking into VIII. And whereas the mysteries of combing of jersey or wool, and of 'frame-work knitting and making of stockings, are considerable branches of the woollen manufactures of this kingdom' Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act, and all the clauses, provisoes, pains, penalties and forfeitures therein contained, shall extend, and be construed and adjudged to extend, to combers of jersey and wool, to frame-work knitters This Act to exand weavers or makers of stockings, and to all persons whatsoever employ tend to comed or concerned in any of the said manufactures, in as full and ample man- bers and ner as any other part of the woollen manufacture is provided for by this frame-work Act; and the pains, penalties and forfeitures which shall be incurred by virtue hereof, shall be inflicted, levied and taken in the same manner as the pains, penalties and forfeitures before-mentioned in this Act are directed, ordered and appointed. [No. V.] 13 George I. c. 23.-An Act for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture, and for preventing Disputes among the Persons concerned therein; and for limiting a Time for prosecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by an Act of the twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign, in case of Payment of the Workmen's Wages in any other Manner than in Money. knitters. P. No. V. 13 Geo. I. c. 23. How disputes V. AND be it enacted, That all disputes and demands relating to work, wages or damages between any clothier or maker of woollen goods, or goods mixt with wool, and any weaver or other person or persons employed in such manufactures, shall be heard and determined by two or more justices of the peace for the county, division or place where such dispute or demand shall arise, who are hereby required and authorized, upon complaint to them made, to summon the parties, and to hear and examine relating to upon oath, and adjudge such satisfaction, and to give such costs and da- wages or da mages to the party aggrieved, as in their discretion shall seem reasonable, mages shall be and to issue their warrant or warrants to levy such costs and damages by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person or persons, who shall refuse for the space of ten days, to pay such costs and damages by them so adjudged; and for want of a sufficient distress, to commit the party to the county gaol or house of correction for any time not exceeding the space of three months, or until satisfaction shall be made by the party so offending. heard. VI. Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful for any person Appeal to the aggrieved by any order of such justices, to appeal to the justices of the quarter-sespeace at the next general quarter-sessions to be holden for the county, sions, &c. division or place where such order shall be made, giving six days notice in writing of such appeal; and the justices in their quarter-sessions are hereby authorized and required to hear and determine the matter of such appeal, and make such order, and to award such costs and damages, as to them in their discretion shall seem reasonable, and to levy, by their order or warrants, such costs and damages so awarded, by distress No. V. 13 Geo. I. c. 23. Prosecutions on the Act 12 Geo.to be commenced within three months after offence committed. No. VI. 13 Geo. II. c. 8. 1 Anne, st. 2. c. 18. and sale of the goods and chattels of any person or persons who shall refuse to obey the same; and for want of sufficient distress, to commit the party to the county gaol or house of correction for any time not exceeding three calendar months, or until satisfaction shall be made by the parties offending; and such award or order of the justices at the quarter-sessions shall be final, nor shall the proceedings of any justice or justices out of sessions, or of the justices in their sessions, in pursuance of this Act, be liable to be removed by certiorari or other form or process of law; any thing in this present or any other Act or Acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XVI. And whereas, by an Act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages, it is enacted, That if any clothier, sergemaker, woollen or worsted stuff-maker, or person concerned in making any woollen cloths, serges or stuffs, or any way concerned in employing woolcombers, weavers or other labourers in the woollen manufactures as aforesaid, shall pay any person or persons 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 person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds. XVII. And whereas by the said Act no time is limited for prosecuting for such offence as aforesaid,' Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every prosecution for such offence, by virtue of the said recited Act, shall be commenced within the space of three months next after such offence committed, and not otherwise. [No. VI.] 13 George II. c. 8.-An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the first Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom; and for extending the said Act to the Manufactures of Leather. WHEREAS by an Act made in the first year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom; it is amongst other things enacted, That if any person or persons employed in working up of woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, or iron manufactures, should embezzle or purloin any wefts, thrumbs, or ends of yarn, or any other materials of wool, hemp, flax, cotton, or iron, with which he, she, or they was, were, or should be intrusted to work upon, 'or should reel short or false yarn, and should be thereof convicted in such manner as in and by the said Act is prescribed, should forfeit double the value of the damages done, for the use of the poor of the said parish; ' and in case the offender or offenders to be convicted as in the said Act is 'mentioned, should neglect or refuse to pay their forfeiture or forfeitures, ⚫ that then it should and might be lawful to and for one justice of the peace of the county where such offence shall be committed, to cause the said 'offender to be committed to the house of correction, until satisfaction 'should be made; and in case it should appear to the said justice, that the 'said offender was not able to make satisfaction, then the said offender is to be there publickly whipped, and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding fourteen days: And by the said Act it is further enacted, That every person buying or receiving any wefts, thrumbs, or ends of yarn, or any other materials of wool, hemp, flax, cotton, or iron, and being 'thereof lawfully convicted in manner as in the said Act is mentioned, shall suffer the like penalties and forfeitures as one convicted pursuant to the said Act for purloining and embezzling of the said materials; which 'said Act was made temporary only; but being by experience found to be beneficial, was, by another Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of No. VI. 13 Geo. II. c. 8. her said late Majesty, made perpetual: And whereas doubts have arisen, whether the before-mentioned clauses in the said Act of the first year of the reign of her said late majesty extend to the embezzling woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, and iron munufactures actually wrought or made up into merchantable wares, and whether the said forfeiture of double the value of the damages done, when recovered, should be applied for the use of the poor of the parish where the persons injured shall ' respectively live, or for the use of the poor of the parish in which the offence has been or shall be committed: And whereas the forfeitures and pe'nalties to which offenders are subjected by the recited Act, have proved 'ineffectual to answer the purposes thereby intended;' Now to explain and amend the said Act, so far as the same relates to the matters aforesaid, 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 if any person or persons who shall be hired or employed in the working up of any woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, or iron manufactures, shall after the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty, purloin, embezzle, secrete, sell, pawn, exchange, or otherwise illegally dispose of any the materials with which he, she, or they shall be respectively intrusted to work up such woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, or iron manufactures, whether the same or any part thereof be or be not first wrought, made up, or manufactured, or shall reel short or false yarn, the person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted in manner and form as is prescribed Manufacturers by the said recited Act for the conviction of persons who shall embezzle or of woollen, &c. purloin any of the materials therein mentioned, he, she, or they shall seve- embezzling rally forfeit double the value of the damages, which the owner or owners materials, to of such materials, whether the same or any part thereof be or be not manu- forfeit double factured, shall respectively sustain thereby, together with such costs of value; prosecution, for every such offence as shall be adjudged reasonable by the justice of the peace, before whom such offender or offenders respectively shall be convicted; and in case immediate payment of the respective forfeitures, together with such costs of prosecution as aforesaid, shall be neglected or refused to be made, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the same justice of the peace, before whom such conviction shall be made, to cause the said offender or offenders to be committed to the house of correction, to be there whipped, and kept to hard labour for any or be whipped. time not exceeding fourteen days; and in case of a further conviction for or on a second or other subsequent offence of any person, for embezzling or purloining any of the materials in the said Act mentioned, either before the same or any part thereof shall be wrought, made up, or converted into merchantable wares, the person or persons so offending shall, for every second or other subsequent offence, being thereof convicted in manner as is mentioned in the said recited Act, forfeit four times the value of the damages, which the owner or owners of such materials, whether the same be or be not wrought, made up or manufactured respectively, shall sustain thereby, together with such costs of prosecution as shall be adjudged reasonable by the justice before whom such offender or offenders shall be thereof respectively convicted; and in case immediate payment of the respective forfeitures, together with such costs of prosecution as aforesaid, shall be neglected or refused to be made, that then such justice, or any other justice of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, town, or place, where such offences shall be committed, shall cause the said offenders respectively to be committed to the house of correction, to be there kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months, nor less than one month, as to such justice shall seem reasonable; and also during the time of such offender or offenders respective commitment or commmitments, shall cause the said offender or offenders to be publickly whipped in and publickly the market town where such offender or offenders shall be respectively whipped. committed, at the market place or cross of such town, once or oftener, as to such justice shall seem reasonable. For a second or other future offence to forfeit four times the value, II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every Receivers subperson or persons who, from and after the first day of May one thousand ject to same penalties. No. VI. 18 Geo. II. c. 8. Forfeitures, half to the injured, and half to the poor. seven hundred and forty, shall buy or receive, accept or take, by way of gift, pawn, pledge, or sale, of or from any or either of the persons herein or in the said recited Act mentioned, any woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, or iron manufactures, either before or after the same shall be wrought, made up, manufactured, or converted into merchantable wares, knowing the same to be so purloined or embezzled, and being thereof lawfully convicted in manner before-mentioned, he, she, and they shall severally suffer, and are hereby subjected to the like forfeitures and penalties respectively, as are by this or the said recited Act inflicted on persons purloining or embezzling such of the materials or manufactures enumerated or mentioned in the said before recited Act, or hereinbefore in this present Act. III. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, That the forfeitures mentioned and incurred by the said recited Act, and also the forfeitures created or given by this present Act, shall, from and after the said first day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty, when recovered, be applied in manner following (that is to say), one moiety thereof to the use of the party or parties injured, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the poor of the parish only where the offence shall be committed, with the like liberty and benefit of appealing to all parties, as is given in and by the said recited Act of the first year of her said late Majesty. IV. And whereas many frauds and abuses have of late been likewise committed by persons employed in cutting out and manufacturing of 'skins, leather, and other materials, into gloves, breeches, boots, shoes, slippers, and other wares and manufactures, by purloining, embezzling, secreting, selling, pawning or exchanging such skins, leather, and other materials, or in some other manner, wherefore it is become necessary to 'make provision for discovering, preventing, and punishing such offences;' And for the better regulating such persons as are or shall be employed in the premises last mentioned, Be it further enacted by the authority aforeWorkers in said, That if from and after the first day of May one thousand seven leather to pay hundred and forty, any person or persons hired or employed, or to be double the hired or employed, in cutting, paring, washing, dressing, sewing, making damage of up, or otherwise manufacturing of gloves, breeches, leather, skins, boots, embezzlement; shoes, slippers, wares, or other goods or materials to be made use of in any of the trades or employments, or in manner last mentioned, or in any branch or particular thereof, shall fraudulently purloin, embezzle, secrete, sell, pawn, or exchange, all or any part of the gloves, breeches, leather, skins, parings, or shreads of gloves or leather, or other materials with which he, she, or they shall be intrusted to work up or manufacture, or shall purloin, embezzle, secrete, sell, pawn, or exchange any gloves, breeches, boots, shoes, slippers, or wares, when made, wrought up, or manufactured, or do or wilfully permit any other act, whereby to lessen the value of such or any part of such gloves, breeches, leather, skins, parings, or shreads of gloves or leather, boots, shoes, slippers, or other wares last particularized, either before or after the same shall be respectively so made into wares, and be thereof lawfully convicted upon the oath or affirmation of the master or owner of such goods or wares, or any other credible witness or witnesses, or by the confession of the person or persons charged with the fact, before one or more justice or justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, town, or place where such offence shall be committed, or where the party or parties so charged shall reside or inhabit (which oath or affirmation such justice or justices is and are hereby impowered to administer and take), such justice or justices shall and may award the person or persons so offending, to make a reasonable and suitable recompence and satisfaction for every offence, to the parties respectively injured, for the damage by them sustained, so as the same do not exceed double the value of the gloves, breeches, leather, boots, shoes, slippers, wares, goods, or materials, by such offender or offenders so purloined or embezzled, secreted, sold, pawned, or exchanged; one half thereof to go to the party or parties grieved, and the other half thereof to go and be applied to the use of the poor of the parish or place where such offence shall be committed, together with the full charges attending such conviction, to be levied by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals of such one half to sufferer; the other to the poor; to be levied on offenders goods; No. VI. 13 Geo. II. c 8. times the justice or justices by distress and sale of the offenders goods, rendering the overplus upon demand to the owner; but if such offender or offenders shall not have goods sufficient to answer for levying the forfeitures and the and charges attending the premises, and shall also neglect or expences refuse immediately to pay the same, that then the said offender and offenders shall, by like warrant of such justice or justices last described, be, for every distinct offence, committed to the house of correction, or other or sent to the publick prison of such county, riding, city, town, or place, and there kept house of corto hard labour for the space of fourteen days, and shall be there likewise rection for a whipped in such manner as the said justice or justices shall order and fortnight, and direct; and in case also of a subsequent conviction for or on a second or whipped; any other such like offence, the person or persons so offending for every for any subsesecond or other subsequent offence, being thereof convicted in manner quent offence before mentioned, shall forfeit four times the value of the damages which to forfeit four the owner or owners of such materials, either before or after the same shall be respectively made up into wares, shall sustain thereby, together with such costs of prosecution as shall be adjudged reasonable by the justice before whom such offender or offenders shall be thereof respectively convicted; and in case immediate payment of the respective forfeitures, together with such costs of prosecution as aforesaid, shall be neglected or refused to be made, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for such or sent to the justice to commit the offender or offenders last described to the house of house of correction, or other public prison, to be there kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months, nor less than one month, as to such exceeding justice shall reem reasonable; and also during the time of such offender or offenders respective commitment or commitments shall cause the said offender or offenders to be publickly whipped in the market town where and be such offender or offenders shall be respectively committed, at the market publickly place or cross of such town, once or oftener, as to such justice shall seem whipped. reasonable. value, correction, not three months or less than one; V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every Receivers person and persons who shall knowingly or willingly, from and after the subject to the said first day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty, buy or receive, same accept or take, by way of pawn, pledge, or sale, or in any other manner, penalties. of or from any or either of the persons offending in any of the particulars in this Act last mentioned, or of or from any other person or persons whatsoever (except of or from the person or persons in whom the property of such gloves, breeches, leather, boots, shoes, slippers, wares, goods, or other materials shall be at the time of such sale, pawn, or exchange), or offer so to do, such person or persons offending therein respectively, shall, for every offence, being convicted thereof in manner aforesaid, make such suitable and reasonable recompence and satisfaction within two days next after the matter of fact shall from time to time be determined by any one or more justice or justices as aforesaid, upon hearing the same (he and they being hereby in this respect also impowered so to do), or else be subject to such distress, and for want of sufficient distress, to be liable to the like punishment as is hereby directed to be inflicted on such person or persons as shall purloin, embezzle, secrete, sell, pawn, or exchange any gloves, breeches, leather, boots, shoes, slippers, wares, goods, or other materials or effects of that sort as aforesaid, and so in like manner for any second or every other subsequent offence. VI. And to prevent oppression of the labourers and workmen employed Workmen to in any respect in or about making or manufacturing of gloves breeches, be paid their boots, shoes, slippers, wares or goods of that sort before-mentioned; Be it wages in enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day money; of May one thousand seven hundred and forty, all payments and satisfaction hereafter to be made to any such labourers, manufacturers and workmen, employed as aforesaid, for any work by them done in and about such manufactures, shall be in and of the lawful coin of this realm only, and not by any victuals, goods, or commodities whatsoever, in lieu thereof (except at and by his and their request and consent only); and all goods and materials delivered out to be wrought up in the manufacture lastmentioned, shall be delivered with a declaration at the same time, of the |