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Offences against both these acts may be alfo determined by $13. any theriff or steward depute, or their substitutes, subject to an appeal to the circuit courts 2.

JUDGES neglecting or refusing to execute the powers given ―JUDGES. by acts 13 Geo. I, and 24 Geo. II, or not putting these acts in execution, in the most beneficial manner for promoting the linen and hempen manufactures, may, with the approbation of the board of trustees, be profecuted before the lords of justiciary at Edinburgh, or in the circuit courts, and fined in any fum not exceeding 1ool.

ALL offences againft act 17 Geo. II, touching stamps, are to One juftice. be determined by one or more justice or juftices of the peace. One witAnd the offender convicted upon the oath of one or more nefs. credible witnefs or witneffès ".

OFFENCES against act 18 Geo. II, for preventing the exportation of foreign linens, in place of British or Irish, are to be tried before the courts of feffion, jufticiary, or exchequer ".

ALL offences against act 22 Geo. II, for regulating perfons employed in the manufactures, are to be determined by one or more juftice or juftices of the peace, fubject in certain cafes, and on certain conditions, to an appeal to the quarter feffions. And the offender may be convicted, upon the oath of the owner, or of one or more credible witness or witneffes, or the voluntary confeffion of the offender.

ALL actions for offences against acts 13 Geo. I, and 24-ACTIONS. Geo. II, are to be commenced within twelve months after committing the offence; and the action is to cease and be

24 Geo. II, c. 31, § 25.

b 13 Geo. I, c. 25, § 33; and 24 Geo. II, § 28.

c 17 Geo. II, c. 30, § 2.

d 18 Geo. II, c. 24, § 3, 4.

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22 Geo, II, c. 21, § 1, &c.

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discharged at the expiration of eight full months after the commencement of the fuit. And if any appeal shall not be determined at the expiration of eight months from the commencement of the action, the sentence appealed from shall take place, and be executed, as if no appeal had been entered f.

THE penalties and forfeitures for tranfgreffing the acts 13 Geo. I, and 24 Geo. II, belong to the informer or prosecutor 8. Penalties for tranfgreffing the act 18 Geo. II, for preventing the exportation of foreign linens in place of British, belong one moiety to the king, and the other to the profecutor h. Penalties for tranfgreffing the statute 22 Geo. II, c. 27, belong partly to the prosecutor, and partly to the poor i.

CHAP. X.

f the Jurisdiction of the Justices in relation to the Woollen

THE

Manufacture.

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HE woollen is the staple manufacture of England. It is the subject of a multiplicity of ftatutes, which Dr. LAND. urn states at great length. There are regulations concerng the winding of wool; for preventing the exportation of ve sheep and wool; concerning cards for manufacturing Tool; the deceitful working of woollen cloth; the fulling f cloth; the feaching of cloth, and its length, breadth, and weight; the dyeing of cloth ; ftenters and ftretchers of

28 Hen. VI, c. 12; 23 Hen. VIII, · 16; 28 Geo. III, c. 38, § 79, 86.

9 and 10 Will. III, c. 40; 17 Deo. III, c. 43, § 10; 28 Geo. III, 23.

13 and 14 Cha. II, c. 19; 14 Geo. III, c. 71; 21 Geo. III, c. 37; ind 26 Geo. III, c. 76.

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43 El. c. 10; 21 James, c. 18; 13 Geo. I, c. 23; 17 Geo. II, c. 5.

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4 Ed. IV, c. 1; 7 Ed. IV, c. 3; 28 Geo. III, c. 58.

f 3 and 4 Ed. VI, c. 2; 39 Eliz. c. 20; 43 Eliz. c. 1o; 3 James, c. 16, and 17; 4 James c. 2; 7 James c. 16; 21 James c. 18; 4 and 5 P. and M, c. 5.

8 6 Anne, c. 8; 5 and 6 Ed. VI, c. 6; 3 and 4 Ed. VI, c. 2; 23 Geo. III, c. 15

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cloth"; the dreffing of clothi; mixed or medley broad, cloth in particular*; concerning the burying the dead in woollen'; against the importation of woollen cloth, and encouragement of the exportation of woollen manufactures"; and important privileges are granted to woolcombers

II. BUT in Scotland, the manufacture of wool has never been fo much attended to. The regulations, therefore, as applicable to this country, are fewer in number, and require not to be treated of fo much in detail.

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h_43 Eliz. c. 10; 22 Cha. II, c. 5; of any perfon who has served fuch 15 Geo. II, c. 27. apprenticeship, fhall, upon the general issue pleaded, be found not guilty, and shall have double coftarný BYA st And two juftices, where any fuch

i 3 Hen. VII, c. 11; 3 and 4 Ed. ^VI, c. 2; 4 James, c. 2; 5 and 6 Ed. VI, c. 6; 21 James, c. 18.

k 10 Anne, c. 16; 1 Geo. ftat. 2, woolcomber or his wife and family

c. 15; 13 Geo. c. 23.

30 Cha. II, c. 3.

fhall exercife fuch trade, may fum. tamon every such person before them,

11 Ed. III, 6314 Ed. IV, c. 131 and examine them, on oath, concernand 11 and 12 Will. c. 20.

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ing the place of their last legal settlement, who fhall obey fuch fummons, and make oath accordingly; and fuch juftices shall give an attefted copy of fuch affidavit, so made before them, to the perfon making the fame, in order that he may produce it when required, which attefted copy thall be admitted as evidence as afich fettlement, before the justices at any feflions: and if fuch woolcomber, or his wife or child, fhall again be fummoned to make oath as aforefaid, then, on producing? fuch; attested copy, shall not be obliged to take any other or further oath, but shall leave a copy of fuch attefted copy, it required. §2. ID YAR

By 35 Geo. III, c. 124, every perfon who fhall have ferved an apprenticeship to the trade of a wool comber, or is by law entitled to ex ercife the fame, and alfo his wife and children, may and exercife fuch trade, or any other trade or business, which they are apt and able for, în any town or place, without moleftation by reason of using fuch trade; and fhall not, during the time they exercife fuch trade, be removable to their place of fettlement, until they become actually chargeable. And if any fuch woolcomber, or his wife or child, fhall be profecuted for exercif. ing any such trades, on their making it appear that they have ferved a leen Provided this act shall not prejugal apprenticeship to the faid trade of dice the universities. §. 3. a woolcomber, or is the wife or child

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of woollen

THE ftatute 1661, c. 42, bestows the fame privileges upon those who enter into focieties for making woollen cloth, as upon those who enter into fuch focieties for the making of linen. The first ftatute after the Union, is the ftatute Dimensions 6 Geo. I, c. 13, which ordains the dimenfions of every piece cloth. of plading, and narrow and broad fingrums made in Scotland; and which, likewife, ordains all stockings made in Scotland to be wrought of three threads, and of one fort of wool and worsted, of equal work and finenefs, free of left loops, hanging hairs, and burnt, cut, or mended holes, and of such shapes and sizes as the patterns which shall be marked by the feveral deans of guild of the chief boroughs of the refpective counties, and according to the dimenfions which are enumerated at large in the act. Thefe patterns are to be open in the cuftody of the feveral stampmafters.

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THE magiftrates of the chief royal boroughs of every fhire Stamps for or stewartry are to caufe ftamps to be made, bearing the cloth. arms of the refpective boroughs, and are to appoint perfons for infpecting and ftamping all ferges, pladings, fingrums, and ftockings; which perfons are to take an oath de fideli, and find, fecurity to the fatisfaction of the magiftrates. The juftices of peace, at the quarterly feffions, and, in default of them, the commillioners of fupply, at their annual meetings, are to appoint ftamps to be kept at places where fuch ferges, &c. are fold. No ftampmafter is to trade in the articles above mentioned, or to ftamp any of them which are not made of well forted yarn, equally wrought, and having the other requifites, under pain of forfeiting twenty fhillings for every piece, and the fame fum for every dozen of stockings. The fame penalty is ordained for buying, exporting, or carrying to be exported, any of thefe articles when unftamped. Perfons affixing ftamps without authority, or counterfeiting ftamps, forfeit five pounds, and, if infolvent, are to be imprisoned