No. I. 39 and 40 George III. c. 99. Persons buying or taking in pledge unfinished goods or linen, or apparel entrusted to others to wash or mend, to forfeit double the sam lent, and restore the goods. Empowering peace officers to search for unfinished goods, &c. unlawfully come by, which shall be restored to the owner. or her name and place of abode, or of the name and place of abode of the owner or owners of the said goods or chattels, or if there shall be any other reason to suspect that such goods or chattels are stolen or otherwise illegally or clandestinely obtained, or if any person or persons not entitled, nor having any colour of title by law to redeem goods or chattels, in pledge or pawn shall attempt or endeavour to redeem the same, it shall be lawful for any person or persons, his, her, or their servants or agents, to whom such goods or chattels shall be so offered, or with whom such goods or chattels are in pledge, to seize and detain such person or persons and the said goods or chattels, and to deliver such person or persons immediately into the custody of a constable or other peace officer, who shall and is hereby required, as soon as may be, to convey such person or persons, and the said goods or chattels so offered, before some justice or justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place wherein the offence shall be supposed to have been committed; and if such justice or justices shall, upon examination and enquiry, have cause to suspect that the said goods or chattels were stolen, or illegally or clandestinely obtained, or that the person or persons offering and endeavouring to redeem the same shall not have any pretence or colour of right to redeem the same, it shall be lawful for such justice or justices to commit such person or persons into safe custody, for such reasonable time as shall be necessary for the obtaining proper information on the subject, in order to be further examined; and if, upon either of the said examinations it shall appear to the satisfaction of such justice or justices that the said goods or chattels were stolen, or illegally or clandestinely obtained, or that the person or persons offering or endeavouring to redeem the same, hath or have not any pretence or colour of right so to do, the said justice or justices is and are hereby authorized and required to commit the party or parties offending to the common gaol or house of correction of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place wherein the offence shall be committed, there to be dealt with according to law, where the nature of the offence shall authorize such commitment by any other law, then such commitment shall be for any time not exceeding three calendar months, at the discretion of such justice or justices. XI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the commencement of this Act, if any person or persons shall knowingly buy or take in as a pledge or pawn, or in exchange, any goods of any manufacture, or of any part or branch of any manufacture, either mixed or separate, or any materials whatsoever, plainly intended for the composing or manufacturing of any goods, after such goods or materials respectively are put into a state or course of manufacture, or into a state for any process or operation to be thereupon or therewith performed, and before such goods or materials are completed or finished for the purposes of wear or consumption, or any linen or apparel, which goods, materials, linen, or apparel, are or shall be, intrusted to any person or persons to wash, scour, iron, mend, manufacture, work up, finish, or make up, and shall be convicted of the same on the oath of one credible witness, or on confession of the party or parties, before one or more justice or justices, every such person or persons shall forfeit double the sum given for or lent on the same, to be paid to the poor of the parish where the offence is committed, to be recovered in the same manner as any other forfeitures are by this Act directed to be recovered, and shall likewise be obliged to restore the said goods and materials to the owner or owners thereof, in the presence of the said justice or justices. XII. And be it further enacted, That if the owner or owners of any goods of any manufacture, or of any part or branch of any manufacture, either mixed or separate, or any materials whatsoever, plainly intended for the composing or manufacturing of any goods, after such goods or materials respectively are put into a state or course of manufacture, or into a state for any process or operation to be thereupon or therewith performed, and before such goods or materials are completed or finished for the purpose of wear or consumption, or any linen or apparel, which goods, materials, linen or apparel are or shall be so intrusted as aforesaid, unlawfully pawned, pledged or exchanged, shall make out either on his, her, or their oath, or fth arc by any the oath of any credible witness, or, being one of the people called Quakers, by solemn affirmation, before any justice or justices of the peace TW within his or their jurisdiction, that there is just cause to suspect that person or persons within the jurisdiction of any such justice or justices hath or have taken to pawn, or by way of pledge or in exchange, any such goods or materials, linen, or apparel, so intrusted as aforesaid, of such owner or owners, and without the privity or authority of such owner or owners itle Jede wi ho No I. 39 and 40 George III. s thereof, and shall make appear to the satisfaction of any such justice or justices probable grounds for such the suspicion of the owner or owners ate thereof, then and in any such case any justice or justices of the peace nd within his or their jurisdiction, may issue his or their warrant for searching, at within the hours of business, the house, warehouse, or other place of any fth such person or persons who shall be charged, on oath or affirmation as er aforesaid, as suspected to have received or taken in pawn or by way of ste pledge, or in exchange, any such goods or materials, linen or apparel, the without the privity of or authority from the owner or owners thereof; and incdif the occupier or occupiers of any house, warehouse, or other place wherein an any such goods, materials, linen, or apparel, shall on oath or affirmation as she aforesaid be charged or suspected to be, shall, after the commencement of in this Act, on request made to him, her, or them, to open the same, by any init peace officer authorized to search there by warrant from any justice or nd justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or on place, in which such house, warehouse, or other place shall be situate, refuse 3, to open the same and permit the same to be searched, it shall be lawful for 720 any peace officer to break open any such house, warehouse, or other place, lo within the hours of business, and to search as he shall think fit therein for ize the goods, materials, linen, or apparel suspected to be there, doing no gat wilful damage; and no pawnbroker or other person or persons shall oppose n, or hinder any such search; and if upon the search of the house, warehouse, wit or other place of any such suspected person or persons as aforesaid, any of suct the goods, materials, linen, or apparel, which shall have been so pawned, im pledged, or exchanged as aforesaid shall be found, and the property of the Of owner or owners thereof shall be made out to the satisfaction of any such justice or justices, by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, ent or if any such witness or witnesses shall be of the people called Quakers, by as a solemn affirmation, or by the confession of the person or persons charged n with any such offence, any such justice or justices shall thereupon cause ial the goods, materials, linen or apparel, found on any such search, and pawned, an pledged or exchanged as aforesaid, to be forthwith restored to the owner or owners thereof. b c. 99. pawned, the pawnbroker to restore them. XIII. And be it further enacted, That if the owner or owners of any Where goods art goods or chattels unlawfully pawned, pledged, or exchanged, shall make are unlawfully an out, either on his, her, or their oath, or by the oath of any credible witness, b or, being one of the people called Quakers, by solemn affirmation, before rany justice or justices of the peace within his or their jurisdiction, that such th owner or owners hath or have had his, her, or their goods or chattels or unlawfully obtained or taken from him, her or them, and that there is just cause to suspect that any person or persons within the jurisdiction of any such justice or justices hath or have taken to pawn, or by way of pledge or in exchange, any goods or chattels of such owner or owners, and without the privity or authority of such owner or owners thereof, and shall make appear to the satisfaction of any such justice or justices, probable grounds for such the suspicion of the owner or owners thereof, then and in any such case any justice or justices of the peace within his or their jurisdiction may issue his or their warrant for searching, within the hours of business, the house, warehouse, or other place of any such person or persons who shall be charged on oath or affirmation as aforesaid as suspected to have received or taken in pawn, or by way of pledge or in exchange, any such goods or chattels, without the privity of or authority from the owner or owners thereof; and if the occupier or occupiers of any house, warehouse, or other place wherein any such goods or chattels shall on oath or affirmation as daforesaid be charged or suspected to be, shall, after the commencement of this Act, on request made to him, her, or them to open the same by any th at: No. I. 39 and 40 George III. c. 99. Persons buying or taking in pledge unfinished goods or linen, or apparel entrusted to others to wash or mend, to forfeit double the sam leht, and restore the goods. Empowering peace officers to search for unfinished goods, &c. unlawfully come by, which shall be restored to the owner. or her name and place of abode, or of the name and place of abode of th owner or owners of the said goods or chattels, or if there shall be an other reason to suspect that such goods or chattels are stolen or otherwis illegally or clandestinely obtained, or if any person or persons not entitle nor having any colour of title by law to redeem goods or chattels, in pledg or pawn shall attempt or endeavour to redeem the same, it shall be lawf for any person or persons, his, her, or their servants or agents, to who such goods or chattels shall be so offered, or with whom such goods chattels are in pledge, to seize and detain such person or persons and th said goods or chattels, and to deliver such person or persons immediate into the custody of a constable or other peace officer, who shall and hereby required, as soon as may be, to convey such person or persons, a the said goods or chattels so offered, before some justice or justices of t peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where the offence shall be supposed to have been committed; and if such justi or justices shall, upon examination and enquiry, have cause to suspect th the said goods or chattels were stolen, or illegally or clandestinely obtaine or that the person or persons offering and endeavouring to redeem the san shall not have any pretence or colour of right to redeem the same, it sha be lawful for such justice or justices to commit such person or persons in safe custody, for such reasonable time as shall be necessary for the obtaini proper information on the subject, in order to be further examined; and upon either of the said examinations it shall appear to the satisfaction such justice or justices that the said goods or chattels were stolen, illegally or clandestinely obtained, or that the person or persons offering endeavouring to redeem the same, hath or have not any pretence or colo of right so to do, the said justice or justices is and are hereby authoriz and required to commit the party or parties offending to the common ga or house of correction of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, place wherein the offence shall be committed, there to be dealt wi according to law, where the nature of the offence shall authorize su commitment by any other law, then such commitment shall be for any til not exceeding three calendar months, at the discretion of such justice justices. XI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the commenceme of this Act, if any person or persons shall knowingly buy or take in a pledge or pawn, or in exchange, any goods of any manufacture, or of a part or branch of any manufacture, either mixed or separate, or any materi whatsoever, plainly intended for the composing or manufacturing of a goods, after such goods or materials respectively are put into a state course of manufacture, or into a state for any process or operation to thereupon or therewith performed, and before such goods or materials a completed or finished for the purposes of wear or consumption, or a linen or apparel, which goods, materials, linen, or apparel, are or shall intrusted to any person or persons to wash, scour, iron, mend, manufactur work up, finish, or make up, and shall be convicted of the same on t oath of one credible witness, or on confession of the party or parties, befo one or more justice or justices, every such person or persons shall forfe double the sum given for or lent on the same, to be paid to the poor the parish where the offence is committed, to be recovered in the san manner as any other forfeitures are by this Act directed to be recovere and shall likewise be obliged to restore the said goods and materials to th owner or owners thereof, in the presence of the said justice or justices. XII. And be it further enacted, That if the owner or owners of an goods of any manufacture, or of any part or branch of any manufactur either mixed or separate, or any materials whatsoever, plainly intended f the composing or manufacturing of any goods, after such goods or materia respectively are put into a state or course of manufacture, or into a sta for any process or operation to be thereupon or therewith performed, a before such goods or materials are completed or finished for the purpose wear or consumption, or any linen or apparel, which goods, materials, line or apparel are or shall be so intrusted as aforesaid, unlawfully pawne pledged or exchanged, shall make out either on his, her, or their oath, o No I. 39 and 40 c. 99. the oath of any credible witness, or, being one of the people called lers, by solemn affirmation, before any justice or justices of the peace rwin his or their jurisdiction, that there is just cause to suspect that any George III. bon or persons within the jurisdiction of any such justice or justices hath have taken to pawn, or by way of pledge or in exchange, any such goods lastmaterials, linen, or apparel, so intrusted as aforesaid, of such owner or whers, and without the privity or authority of such owner or owners sereof, and shall make appear to the satisfaction of any such justice or tices probable grounds for such the suspicion of the owner or owners reof, then and in any such case any justice or justices of the peace and in his or their jurisdiction, may issue his or their warrant for searching, is, in the hours of business, the house, warchouse, or other place of any person or persons who shall be charged, on oath or affirmation as heresaid, as suspected to have received or taken in pawn or by way of judge, or in exchange, any such goods or materials, linen or apparel, ctthout the privity of or authority from the owner or owners thereof; and tain the occupier or occupiers of any house, warehouse, or other place wherein such goods, materials, linen, or apparel, shall on oath or affirmation as it soresaid be charged or suspected to be, shall, after the commencement of ns Act, on request made to him, her, or them, to open the same, by any tance officer authorized to search there by warrant from any justice or antices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or tione, in which such house, warehouse, or other place shall be situate, refuse len open the same and permit the same to be searched, it shall be lawful for ring peace officer to break open any such house, warehouse, or other place, cothin the hours of business, and to search as he shall think fit therein for or goods, materials, linen, or apparel suspected to be there, doing no ongful damage; and no pawnbroker or other person or persons shall oppose whinder any such search; and if upon the search of the house, warehouse, other place of any such suspected person or persons as aforesaid, any of goods, materials, linen, or apparel, which shall have been so pawned, edged, or exchanged as aforesaid shall be found, and the property of the the owner or owners thereof shall be made out to the satisfaction of any such ce or justices, by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, ene any such witness or witnesses shall be of the people called Quakers, by nnn affirmation, or by the confession of the person or persons charged any such offence, any such justice or justices shall thereupon cause tere goods, materials, linen or apparel, found on any such search, and pawned, of aged or exchanged as aforesaid, to be forthwith restored to the owner or It e of ate owners thereof. restore them. to XIII. And be it further enacted, That if the owner or owners of any Where goods lsds or chattels unlawfully pawned, pledged, or exchanged, shall make are unlawfully rout, either on his, her, or their oath, or by the oath of any credible witness, pawned, the all br, being one of the people called Quakers, by solemn affirmation, before pawnbroker to cy justice or justices of the peace within his or their jurisdiction, that such owner or owners hath or have had his, her, or their goods or chattels Defnlawfully obtained or taken from him, her or them, and that there is just onse to suspect that any person or persons within the jurisdiction of any och justice or justices hath or have taken to pawn, or by way of pledge or exchange, any goods or chattels of such owner or owners, and without e privity or authority of such owner or owners thereof, and shall make appear to the satisfaction of any such justice or justices, probable grounds for such the suspicion of the owner or owners thereof, then and in any such fcase any justice or justices of the peace within his or their jurisdiction may sue his or their warrant for searching, within the hours of business, the or other place of any such person or persons who shall on oath or affirmation as aforesaid as suspected to have received taken in pawn, or by way of pledge or in exchange, any such goods or without the privity of or authority from the owner or owners seereof; and if the occupier or occupiers of any house, warehouse, or other Face wherein any such goods or chattels shall on oath or affirmation as aforesaid be charged house, warehouse, ri charged attels, this Act, on request made to him, her, or them to open the same by any or suspected to be, shall, after the commencement of No. I. 39 and 40 George III. c. 99. Penalty on the pawnbroker who will not deliver up goods to the pawner. peace officer authorized to search there, by warrant from a justice or ju XIV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the commence or thei one year, ol |