fees (f), signed by the clerk to the justices, shall be hung up in every place where any general or quarter sessions, or petty or other sessions of the peace shall be held. settled. Section 31 enacts, that all costs, time and expenses Costs and attending the application to justices to be made under expenses, this act, and of the arbitration pursuant thereon, shall how to be be settled by the arbitrators or arbitrator by whom such dispute shall be settled; and where the same shall be determined by any justice of the peace pursuant to this act, then the costs, time, and expenses aforesaid shall be settled by such justice: and where the arbitrators, appointed as aforesaid, cannot agree as to the costs, time, and expenses to be allowed, the same shall be settled by the justice or justices of the peace by whom the said arbitrators were named, and in case of his absence or indisposition, by any justice of the peace for the same county, stewartry, riding, division, barony, city, burgh, liberty, town or place nearest to the place at which the arbitrators met to settle the dispute: provided always that no master manufacturer, his foreman or agent shall in any case be allowed for costs, time, or expenses by the said justice or justices, unless it shall appear to him or them that the proceedings of the workmen were vexatious and oppressive. from stamp 32. Provided that every agreement, submission, award, Proceedings ticket, matter or thing under and by virtue of this act, exempt or relating to any other mode of arbitration as aforesaid, duty. shall and may be drawn up and written upon unstamped paper. of actions 33. Provided also, that no action shall be brought Limitation against any arbitrator, justice of the peace, constable, for executheadborough, or other officer, or against any other per- ing act. In actions for executing act. General issue. Costs. Proviso for acts not hereby repealed. son or persons whomsoever, for any matter or thing whatsoever done or committed under or by virtue or in the execution of this act, unless such action shall be brought within six calendar months next after the doing or committing of such matter or thing. 34. Provided also, that if any action or suit shall hereafter be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for any thing done under, by virtue, or in the execution of this act, such person or persons may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and if the plaintiff shall become nonsuited, or suffer discontinuance, or forbear further prosecution, or if judgment shall be given for the defendant or defendants, such defendant or defendants shall recover his, her, or their full costs, and for which he, she, or they, shall have like remedy, as in cases where costs by law are given to defendants. 35. Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal, abridge, annul, or make void any of the clauses, provisions, remedies, or powers contained in any law or statute now in force, and not repealed by this act. A GREAT variety of statutes formerly existed relative to the combination of workmen. Those statutes, however, were all repealed by the 5 Geo. 4, c. 95, which 5 Geo. 1, substituted other provisions in lieu thereof, "for the c. 95. purpose of protecting the free employment of capital and labour, and for punishing combinations interfering with such freedom by means of violence, threats, or intimida tion." The provisions of that statute not being found Repealed, effectual, another act was passed in the following year, 6 Geo. 4, c. 129, which now regulates the law upon the and 6 Geo. 4, subject. c. 129, substituted. 6 GEO. 4, c. 129. Sect. 1 recites 5 Geo. 4, c. 95, and that it had not Sect. 1. been found effectual, and, further, that "such combinations are injurious to trade and commerce, dangerous to the tranquillity of the country, and especially prejudicial to the interests of all who are concerned in them," and that "it is expedient to make further provision as well for the security and personal freedom of individual workmen in the disposal of their skill and labour, as for the security of the property and persons of masters and employers, and for that purpose to repeal the said act and to enact other provisions and regulations in lieu thereof;" and then repeals 5 Geo. 4, c. 95. Sect. 2. Sect. 3. Compelling employ. unfinished; hiring themselves. them to belong to clubs, &c., or to pay fines, By sect. 2 a large number of previous acts are also repealed. By sect. 3 it is enacted, that if any person shall by violence to the person or property, or by threats, or journeymen intimidation, or by molesting, or in any way obstructing to leave another, force or endeavour to force any journeyman ment, or to manufacturer, workman, or other person hired or emreturn work ployed in any manufacture, trade, or business, to depart preventing from his hiring, employment, or work, or to return his work before the same shall be finished, or prevent or endeavour to prevent any journeyman manufacturer, workman, or other person not being hired or employed, from hiring himself to, or from accepting work or employment from any person or persons, or if any person Compelling shall use or employ violence to the person or property of another, or threats, or intimidation, or shall molest, or in any way obstruct another for the purpose of forcing or inducing such person to belong to any club or association, or to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not belonging to any particular club or association, or not having contributed, or having refused to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not having complied or of his refusing to comply with any rules, orders, resolutions, or regulations made to obtain an advance or to reduce the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours of working, or to decrease or alter the quantity of work, or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade or business, or the management thereof; or if any person shall by violence to the person or property of another, or by threats, or intimidaof carrying tion, or by molesting, or in any way obstructing another, on business. force or endeavour to force any manufacturer or person carrying on any trade or business to make any alteration in his mode of regulating, managing, conducting, or carrying on such manufacture, trade, or business, or to limit the number of his apprentices, or the number or description of his journeymen, workmen, or servants, every person so offending, or aiding, abetting, or assisting therein, being convicted thereof in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be imprisoned only or shall and may be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months. or forcing masters to alter mode Punishment. Proviso for meetings for settling rates of 4. Provided always, that this act shall not extend to subject any persons to punishment who shall meet together for the sole purpose of consulting upon and deter hours of by the per mining the rate of wages or prices which the persons wages to be present at such meeting, or any of them, shall require received, or or demand for his or their work, or the hours or time for work to be which he or they shall work in any manufacture, trade employed, or business, or who shall enter into any agreement, sons meetverbal or written, among themselves for the purpose of ing. fixing the rate of wages or prices which the parties entering into such agreement, or any of them, shall require or demand for his or their work, or the hours of time for which he or they will work in any manufacture, trade or business, and that persons so meeting for the purposes aforesaid, or entering into any such agreement as aforesaid, shall not be liable to any prosecution or penalty for so doing, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. for rates of wages, &c., to journey 5. Provided also, that this act shall not extend to Proviso for subject any persons to punishment who shall meet toge- meetings ther for the sole purpose of consulting upon and determining the rate of wages or prices which the persons to be paid present at such meeting, or any of them, shall pay to his by masters or their journeymen, workmen or servants for their work, men, &c. or the hours or time of working in any manufacture, trade or business, or who shall enter into any agreement, verbal or written, among themselves for the purpose of fixing the rate of wages or prices which the parties entering into such agreement, or any of them, shall pay to his or their journeymen, workmen or servants, for their work, or the hours or time of working in any manufacture, trade or business, and that persons so meeting for the purposes aforesaid, or entering into any such agreement as aforesaid, shall not be liable to any prosecution or penalty for so doing, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding." to give evi By sect. 6 it is enacted, that all and every persons and Offenders person who shall or may offend against this act shall compelled and may, equally with all other persons, be called upon dence. and compelled to give his or her testimony and evidence as a witness or witnesses on behalf of his Majesty, or of the prosecutor or informer, upon any information to be made or exhibited under this act against any other person or persons not being such witness or witnesses as aforesaid, and that in all such cases every person having given his or her testimony or evidence as aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby indemnified of, from, and against any Indemnified. information to be laid, or prosecution to be commenced against him or her for having offended in the matter |