OFFENCES within the 11 & 12 VICT. c. 43. MANUFACTURES, &c.-- continued. V. REGULATIONS AS TO MINES. 50. Owner of any mine or colliery employing any female within the same, or 51. Permitting her to work or be therein for the purpose of working therein. Statute. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99, s. 1 (Note 120). [MEM. Not to extend to females whose employment is above ground (s. 7).] 52. Employing any male under the age of ten, Id. s. 2. or 53. Permitting him to work or be therein for the purpose of working therein (see MEM. above). 54. Taking apprentice under 10 years, &c. (see sect). Id. s. 4. 55. Parent or guardian of person employed wilfully misrepresenting his or her age to employer. Id. s. 6. 56. Owner, or person employed to pay wages, paying, or causing to be Id. ss. 10, 12. paid, the same at or within any tavern, public house, beer shop, or other house of entertainment, or any office, garden, or place belonging thereto, or occupied therewith. 57. Owner of mine or colliery allowing any person, other than a male of fifteen years and upwards, to have charge of any steam engine, &c. &c. (see sect.). MARKETS AND FAIRS. Various penalties under this Consolidation Act. Id. s. 8. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 14. MASTER AND SERVANT. 1. Giving a false Character, &c.] Falsely personating any master or mistress, or the executor, administrator, wife, relation, housekeeper, steward, agent or servant of them, and either personally or in writing giving any false, forged or counterfeited character to any person offering him or herself to be hired as a servant into the service of any person. 32 Geo. 3, c. 56, s. 1. (120) The summons in these cases might be served at the defendant's counting-house (s. 16). (121) Proceedings against Servant of Owner responsible for Offence.] Section 13 enacts, that if any offence shall be committed against this act, for which the owner of any mine or colliery is hereby made r sponsible, and it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of any justices that the offence has been committed by or under the authority of some agent, servant or workman of such owner, or by or under the authority of a contractor, without the personal consent, concurrence or knowledge of such owner, it shall be lawful for such justices to sum. mon such agent, servant, workman or contractor, before them to answer for such offence; and such agent, servant, workman or contractor, if convicted, shall be liable to the penalties and punishment for such offence herein specified; and such justices may convict such agent, (122) To the next general or quarter sessions holden not less than fifteen days after conviction, provided that appellant give to the complainant a notice in writing of such appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, within seven days after conviction, and seven clear days at least before such sessions; and also either remain in custody until the sessions, or enter into a recognizance, with two sufficient sureties, before a justice, to appear at sessions, &c.; and upon such notice being given and such recognizance being entered into, the justice before whom the same shall be entered into shall liberate such person, if in custody. (123) To the next general or quarter sessions, giving notice thereof, and entering into recognizance, with two sufficient sureties, in £20 each, to try appeal, &c. OFFENCES within the 11 & 12 VICT. c. 43. MASTER AND SERVANT- continued. 2. Knowingly and wilfully pretending, or 3. Falsely asserting in writing, that any servant has been hired or retained for any period of Statute. 32 Geo. 3, c. 56, s. 2. 4. Knowingly and wilfully pretending, or 5. Falsely asserting in writing, that any servant was discharged or left service at any other 6. Servants falsely pretending to have served.] Any person offering himself or herself as a servant, asserting or pretending that he or she had served in any service in which such servant shall not actually have served, or 7. With a false, forged or counterfeit certificate of his or her character, or 8. In anywise adding to or altering, effacing or erasing, any word, date, matter or thing in any certificate given by his or her former master or mistress, or 9. Any person having before been in service, when offering to hire himself or herself, falsely or wilfully pretending to have been hired in any previous service. MILITARY LAW. 1. Recruit enlisting and discovered incapable of active service (by reason of any infirmity concealed, or not declared before justice, when attested), concealing his having been a soldier and discharged, or discharged upon a prior enlistment, or 2. Wilfully concealing any such infirmity, upon being attested, or 3. Designedly making any false representation. 4. Denying at the time of enlistment or attestation that he belongs to the militia (if the fact be otherwise). 5. Any person confessing himself to be a deserter, when not so. 6. Any officer or soldier forcibly entering into or breaking open any dwellinghouse or outhouse, or 7. Giving orders to do so, under pretence of searching for deserters, without a justice's warrant. Id. s. 3. Id. s. 4. Id. s. 6. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 11, s. 57 (see 10 & 11 Vict. c. 37). Id. Id. s. 49. Id. s. 87. (124) A moiety to the informer, and the remainder, or if no informer the whole [and in |