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BURN'S

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

AND

Parish Officer.

VOL. III.

FACTORIES LUNATICS.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

AND

Parish Officer.

THE TWENTY-NINTH EDITION,

CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED,

CONTAINING THE

CASES & STATUTES TO 7 & 8 VICT., INCLUSIVE,

WITH

A New Collection of Precedents.

THE TITLE "POOR"

BY MR. COMMISSIONER BERE,

OF THE EXETER DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY,

THE REST OF THE WORK

BY THOMAS CHITTY, Esq.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL III.

LONDON:

SWEET: MAXWELL & SON; AND STEVENS' & NORTON,
Law Booksellers & Publishers;

HODGES & SMITH, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

THE

JUSTICE OF THE
OF THE PEACE,

AND

PARISH OFFICER.

Factor. See" Agent," Vol. I.;-as to their Pledging Property, see post, "Larceny."

Factories.

[42 Geo. III. c. 73; 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 30; 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103; 4 Will. IV.
c. 1; 7 Vict. c. 15 (a).]

As
to disputes between masters and workmen in factories, see post,
"Servants," Vol. V.

By the 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 30, s. 3, wilfully destroying or injuring manufactured silk, woollen, linen, or cotton goods in the loom, &c., or machinery, or forcibly entering buildings for that purpose, subjects the offender to transportation for life, or imprisonment and whipping, &c. See generally, "Malicious Injuries to Property," Vol. V.

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Stealing of Exporting tools. 42 Geo. 3, c. 73.

Mills and factorie employing a cerpersons, subjected of 42 Geo. 3, c. 73. to the regulations

tain number of

As to rioters destroying, see post, "Hundred;" "Riot," Vol. V. As to stealing goods in a course of manufacture, see post, "Larceny." As to exporting of tools, &c., see "Manufactures," Vol. V. The stat. 42 Geo. III. c. 73, intituled, "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories," enacts, (s. 1), “That, from and after the second day of December one thousand eight hundred and two, all such mills and factories within Great Britain and Ireland, wherein three or more apprentices, or twenty or more other persons, shall at any time be employed, shall be subject to the several rules and regulations contained in this act; and the master or mistress of every such mill or factory is hereby strictly enjoined and required to pay due attention to and act in strict conformity to the said rules and regulations." Sect. 2. "That all and every the rooms and apartments in or belong- Whitewashing and ing to any such mill or factory shall, twice at least in every year, be airing the rooms. well and sufficiently washed with quicklime and water over every part of the walls and ceiling thereof; and that due care and attention shall be paid by the master or mistress of such mills or factories to provide a sufficient number of windows and openings in such rooms or apartments, to insure a proper supply of fresh air in and through the same." And see the 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, s. 26, post, 10.

(a) This act of 7 Vict. c. 15, was passed after that part of this work containing the statute 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, was printed. It repeals by sect. VOL. III

40, post, 16 k, a few of the provisions
of the 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, as to
proceedings for penalties.

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