FORM OF GAZETTE NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of the first section of the Act 30 & 31 Vict. there, upon the day of eighteen hundred and it was agreed that an application should be made after the lapse of one month from this date to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, by the parties after mentioned, for a license to form a Council of Conciliation and Arbitration in connection with the trade in the to hold, have, and exercise all the powers granted to arbitrators and referees under the statutes mentioned in the said Act, and that the following are the names, occupations, and residences of the parties who intend jointly to petition Her Majesty to that effect. of [Here insert these particulars.] Signed in name and by authority of the said meeting, [Place and date.] A. B., Preses. The preceding forms will enable masters and workmen to bring their proceedings up to the point at which it will be necessary for them to appoint a clerk, in terms of the Act, who will, of course, direct the subsequent steps of procedure. In case, however, it should at any time be necessary to apply by petition to the House of Lords, or the House of Commons, the following forms will be found useful : FORM OF PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPIRItual and TempORAL, in Parliament assembled: The Humble PETITION of SHEWETH, That [Give names and designations.] [Here give a statement of the facts.] Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that JUDICIAL. And your petitioners will ever pray. FORM OF PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Unto the HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN JUDICIAL. The subjoined form of Agreement between a Master and a Workman may be written or printed after the Trade Rules, both being signed by the parties; such agreements are exempt from stamp duty. FORM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN A MASTER AND A WORKMAN. terms of the foregoing Trade Rules, signed by us of even date herewith. day of 18 N.B.-Witnesses are not absolutely necessary when the parties can write, but where they cannot, and have to sign by mark, it is advisable that the person who reads over the rules should sign as a witness to the subscription by mark along with another. In Scotland the following clause, called a testing clause, can be added after the word "herewith "In witness whereof we have subscribed the said Rules, and this Agreement, consisting of this and the preceding page , written, in so far as not printed, by (Give full name and designation), at upon the day of years, before these witnesses. , eighteen hundred and (Here will follow the names of two male witnesses above fourteen years of age, and their designations). (Signed) A. B. C. D. N.B.—This form applies to the case where both parties sign at the same time, in presence of each other and of the same witnesses. If this does not happen to be the case, then, after the name of the writer of the agreement, as in the above form, add-" as follows, viz., by me the said A. B. at" (giving the name of the place, and the date, and the names and designations of the witnesses as before) "and by me the said C. D., at " (giving the place, and date, and the names, and designations also as before). REPORT OF THE NOTTINGHAM BOARD OF ARBITRATION AND IT affords the Board much pleasure to report that the past year has been, on The Board has met eight times during the year for general and special business. The Committee of Inquiry has also met on several occasions, and all matters in dispute which have been submitted to it have been speedily and amicably arranged. The Board having now had six years' experience of the practical working of the system of arbitration, as opposed to strikes and lock outs, is thoroughly convinced that in a free country, where workmen and capitalists have a perfect right to enter into combinations, the simplest, most humane, and rational method of settling all disputes betwixt employer and employed is arbitration and conciliation. The Board is strengthened in this conviction by the fact that during the past two years the demand for hosiery has been, in several branches, of an exceptional character, and labour, in some departments, unusually scarce: and notwithstanding the workmen have preserved their trades unions, by having a central authority to appeal to, composed equally of employers and employed, all questions calculated to produce irritation and lead to disputes have been promptly settled; all inequalities in the rates of wages have been adjusted; the manufacturer has been enabled to accept his contracts without apprehension and execute them without delay, and the rights of workmen have been jealously looked after and strictly preserved. Whereas in neighbouring counties and throughout the country a chronic warfare has existed betwixt labour and capital, to the great injury of both, owing to the want of some court of appeal commanding alike the confidence of employers and employed. It is with much satisfaction that the Board is able to report that at no previous period in the history of the hosiery trade has there existed such a cordial understanding betwixt employer and employed as at the opening of the present year, and the Board trusts that this may long continue, believing that it is calculated to advance the interests of the trade, to improve the condition of the workmen, and to further the progress and well-being of the community. STATUTES RELATIVE TO INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION. 22 Geo. II. c. 27. ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO GEORGII III. REGIS. (EMBEZZLEMENT ACT.) CAP. LVI. An Act for amending and rendering more effectual the several WHEREAS by an Act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late majesty such offender or offenders should be respectively committed; and in case of a further conviction, in manner before prescribed by the said Act, for or upon a second or other subsequent offence of the same kind, it should and might be lawful to and for the justice or justices before whom such conviction should be had to commit the person or persons so again offending to the house of correction or other public prison as aforesaid, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months nor less than one month, and also to order the person or persons so again offending to be publicly whipped at the market place or some other public place of the city, town, or place where such offender or offenders should be respectively committed, twice or oftener, as to such justice or justices should appear reasonable: And whereas it is thought necessary to vary the punishment for the offences herein before recited: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present l'arliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and so much of seventy-seven, so much of the said recited Act as prescribes what the punishment the said Act as prescribes shall be in any of the cases before mentioned, or before whom such conviction the punishshall be had, whether for a first offence or a second or any subsequent offence, ment to be shall be repealed; and instead of inflicting the punishment so directed the inflicted for justices of the peace before whom the conviction shall be shall commit the pawning, person convicted to the house of correction or other public prison, there to be &c., of materials, is kept to hard labour, in the case of a first offence, for any time not less than hereby refourteen days nor more than three months, and in the case of a second or any pealed; and subsequent offence, for any time not less than three months nor more than other punsix months, and may likewise, for the first or for any subsequent offence, order substituted the person convicted to be once publicly whipped, if such additional punishment instead shall by the said justice or justices be deemed proper. embezzling, ishments thereof. unless before two jus II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, No person to that no person or persons who shall be charged with any offence or offences be convicted, against the said recited Act of the twenty-second year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second shall be liable to be convicted unless before two or more justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where the offence shall be committed; anything contained in the said recited Act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. tices, &c. aforesaid III. And whereas by the said Act of the twenty-second year of the reign of Recital of a his late majesty King George the Second it was also enacted, that if any person clause in the or persons should buy, receive, accept, or take, by way of gift, pawn, pledge, Act. sale, or exchange, or in any other manner whatsoever, of or from any person or persons hired or employed to make any felt or hat, or to prepare or work up the woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, iron, leather, fur, hemp, flax, mohair, or silk manufactures, or any manufactures made up of wool, fur, hemp, flax, cotton, mohair, or silk, or of any of the said materials mixed one with another, any thrums or ends of yarn, or any other materials of wool, fur, hemp, flax, cotton, or iron, or any leather, mohair, or silk, whether the same or any part thereof be or be not first wrought, made up, or manufactured, knowing the person or persons of whom he, she, or they so buy, receive, accept, or take the said materials to be so hired or employed as aforesaid, and not having first obtained the consent of the person or persons so hiring or employing him, her, or them, who should offer to sell, pawn, pledge, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the said materials, cr should buy, receive, accept, or take, in any manner whatsoever, of or from any other person or persons whomsoever, any of the said materials, whether the same be or be not first wrought, made up, or manufactured, knowing the same to be so purloined or embezzled, then and in every such case the person or persons so buying, receiving, accepting, or taking any such materials, being thereof lawfully convicted in manner before prescribed by the said Act for the conviction of persons purloining or embezzling the said materials, should, for the first offence, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, and in case the said for |