terials herein before mentioned, are by this Act rendered subject and liable to.

rant upon

Oath of any

A&t, and to

§ 8. AND be it further enacted by the Juftice to itAuthority aforefaid, That it fhall and fue his Warmay be lawful to and for any One Juftice Complaint or of the Peace of any County, Riding, Di- Offence a vifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, gainft this and he is hereby required, upon Com- determine the plaint to him made upon Oath, or (if the fame. Perfon complaining be of the People called Quakers) folemn Affirmation, of any Offence committed against this Act within the fame County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, to iffue his Warrant for apprehending and bringing be→ fore him, or before any other Juftice or Juftices of the Peace of the fame County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, the Perfon or Perfons charged with fuch Offence; and the Justice or Juftices, before whom fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall be brought, is and are hereby authorised and required to hear and determine the Matter of every fuch Complaint, and to proceed to Conviction and Judgement thereupon.

$9. AND, for the better regulating of the Journeymen, and other Perfons employed as Manufacturers or Workers in the Manufacture of Felts or Hats, and in the Woolen, Linen, Fuftian, Cotton, Iron, Mohair, Furr, Hemp, Flax, or Silk Manufactures,

ting their Work for

ed, &c.

nufactures, or any Manufactures made up of Wool, Furr, Hemp, Flax, Linen, Cotton, Mohair, or Silk, or any of the faid Materials mixed one with another, be it further enacted by the Authority aforeJourneymen faid, That if any Perfon who, at any not comple Time after the faid Twenty-fourth Day of June, One thousand seven hundred and were employ. forty-nine, fhall be hired, retained, or employed to prepare or work up any of the Manufactures herein before mentioned for any One Master, shall neglect or refufe the Performance thereof, by procuring, or permitting himself or herself to be fubfequently retained or employed by any other Master or Perfon whatsoever, before he or she fhall have completed the Work which he or fhe was firft and originally fo hired, retained, or employed to perform, and which was first delivered to him or her, then, and in every fuch Cafe, the Perfon fo offending, being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath, or (being of the People called Quakers) Affirmation of One or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes before One or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Division, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, where the Offence or Offences fhall be to be commit. committed, fhall be fent to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard La

ted.

bour

bour for any Time not exceeding One Month.

Twice for the

SII. PROVIDED, nevertheless, and it None to be is hereby further enacted and declared, punished That no Perfon fhall, by virtue of the faid fame Offence. Acts herein before laft mentioned, or of this Act, fuffer, or be liable to fuffer the Punishments thereby inflicted, Twice for One and the fame Fact or Offence.

*

in an Act of 12 Geo. I.

12. AND whereas by an Act made in Recital of the Twelfth Year of the Reign of his late feveral Claufe Majesty King George the Firft, intituled, An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woolen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages, all Contracts, Covenants, or Agreements, and all By-laws, Ordinances, Rules or Orders made or entered into, or hereafter to be made or entered into by or between any Perfons brought up in, or profeffing, ufing, or exercifing the Art and Mystery of a Wool Comber, or Weaver, or Journeyman Wool Comber, or Journeyman Weaver, in any Parifh or Place within this Kingdom, for regulating the faid Trade or Mystery, or for regulating, or fettling the Prices of Goods, or for advancing their Wages, or for leffening their ufual Hours of Work, are declared to be illegal, null and void, to all Intents and Purposes: And it is, by the faid last mentioned Act (amongst other Things) enact

P

ed,

ed, That if any Wool Comber, or Wea ver, or Journeyman Wool Comber, or Journeyman Weaver, or other Perfon concerned in any of the Woolen Manufactures of this Kingdom, fhall at any Time keep up, continue, act in, make, enter into, fign, feal, or be knowingly concerned in any Contract, Covenant, or Agreement, By-law, Ordinance, Rule, or Order of any Club, Society, or Combination, by the faid Act declared to be illegal, or fhall prefume or attempt to put any fuch illegal Agreement, By-law, Ordinance, Rule, or Order in Execution, every Person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted in Manner preferibed by the faid Act, fhall, at the Difcretion of the Juftices of the Peace before whom fuch Conviction fhall be had, be cominitted either to the Houfe of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Months, or to the Common Gaal of the County, City, Town, or Place where fuch Offence fhall be committed, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for any Time not exceeding Three Months: And it is, by the faid laft mentioned Act, alfo further enacted, That if any Perfon retained or employed as a Wool Comber or Weaver, or Servant in the Art or Mystery of a Wool Comber or Weaver, fhall depart from his

Service

Service before the End of the Time for which he is hired or retained, or fhall quit or return his Work before the fame fhall be finished according to Agreement, unless it be for fome reafonable Cause to be allowed by Two or more Justices of the Peace within their refpective Jurifdictions, every Perfon fo offending, being thereof Convicted in Manner prescribed by the said Act, fhall be committed to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Months; and if any Wool Comber, Weaver, Servant, or Perfon hired, retained, or employed in the faid Art or Myftery, fhall wilfully damnify, spoil, or destroy (without the Confent of the Owner) any of the Goods, Wares, or Work committed to his Care or Charge, or wherewith he shall be entrusted, fuch Offender, being thereof convicted, fhall forfeit and pay to the Owner or Owners of fuch Goods or Wares fo damnified, spoiled, or destroyed, double the Value thereof, to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant or Warrants under the Hands. and Seals of any Two or more Justices of the Peace, within their refpective Jurifdictions; and, for want of fufficient Diftrefs, fuch Juftices fhall commit the Party or Parties offending to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard LaP 2 bour,