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No. XVI.

44 Geo. III.

c. 87.

Complaints may be made

against agents or partners.

Where masters become

bankrupts, as signees shall

be liable.

Complaints of married women and infants.

Costs shall be

settled by arbitrators or justices.

Fees allowed.

said recited Act: Provided always, that no appeal shall be competent against any conviction for any such penalty.

XIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any work shall have been delivered to any workman by the agent or servant of any master or masters, to be, when finished, delivered to such agent or servant, and also where two or more persons shall carry on the business of such manufacture as partners, in every such case respectively, the like proceedings shall and may be had and made against such agent, servant, or any partner, and shall be as effectual as if the same had been had and made against the principal or all partners; and all the said persons respectively shall obey the award made thereupon, and all such order or orders as shall be made by the said justice or justices, in or respecting the matters in dispute, and shall be subject to the same pains, penalties, and forfeitures, for refusing or delaying to abide by or perform the same, as if the proceedings had been had against the principal or against all the partners.

XIV. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That in all cases where any proceedings may be had against a master or masters under this or by the said recited Act, or where such proceedings shall have been commenced, and the master or masters shall become or be bankrupt, or any assignment of his or their estate or effects shall have been made under the said bankruptcy, or otherwise by deed or in law, the assignee or assignees of such estate or effects shall be liable to the proceedings authorised by this Act against the master or masters, as fully as the master or masters was or were before the bankruptcy or assignment; and such proceedings may be com menced or carried on against such assignee or assignees, who shall fulfil and abide by the award made thereupon, and all such order or orders shall be made by the said justice or justices in or respecting the matters in dispute, and shall be subject to the same pains, penalties and forfeitures, for refusing or delaying to abide by or perform the same, as if the proceedings had been had against the master or masters before his or their bankruptcy, or the assignment of his or their estate or effects; provided that all sums of money to be paid in pursuance of such award or orders shall be recoverable only out of the estate and effects of such master or masters, and not out of the proper money of such assignee or assignees.

XV. And be it further enacted, That where any married woman, or infant under the age of twenty-one years, shall have cause of complaint in any of the cases provided for by this or the said recited Act, against any master or masters, his or their agent or servant, or assignee or assignees as aforesaid, such complaint may be lodged, and all further proceedings thereupon had by and in the name of the husband of such married woman, and of the father, or if dead, of the mother, or, if on the death of both parents, of any of the kindred of any such infant, and of the surety or sureties in any indenture of apprenticeship of any such infant being an apprentice; and all such proceedings shall be as effectual, valid, and binding, as if such married woman was sole, and such infants were of full age, and pursued by themselves the remedies provided by this or the before recited Act. XVI. And be it further enacted, That all costs, time, and expences, attending the applications to justices to be made under this Act, and of the arbitration pursuant thereon, shall be settled by the arbitrators or arbitrator by whom such disputes shall be settled; and where the same shall be determined by any justice of the peace, pursuant to the said recited Act, then the costs, time, and expences aforesaid, shall be settled by such justice; and where the arbitrators appointed as aforesaid cannot agree as to the costs, time, and expences 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, riding, division, city, liberty, or place, nearest to the place at which the arbitrators met to settle the dispute.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That the following and no higher fees shall be allowed to be taken for any proceeding under this Act, videlicet:

To the clerk of the justice or justices,

For each summons

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And a table of fees, signed by the clerk to such justice or justices, shall be hung up in every place where any general or quarter sessions or petty sessions of the peace shall be held.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That no proceedings under this Act shall be set aside or quashed for want of form.

Proceedings

not to be

quashed for want of form. Repeal of

XIX. And be it further enacted, That in place of the forms set down in the schedule to the said Act, the forms contained in the schedule hereunto annexed shall be used and observed in the several instances to which they apply; and all the provisions of the said Act which are contrary to the pro- Schedule, &c. visions of this Act, or for which other provisions are hereby substituted, in recited Act. shall be and the same are hereby repealed; but the same shall in all other respects remain and continue in full force and effect. "Publick Act, §. 20."

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

Form of the Award, to be written at the Foot or upon the
Back of the Order of the Justices appointing the Arbi-

trators.

WE I.K. and L. M. [name and describe the referee], the referees appointed to settle the matters in dispute between the parties within named, [or, I, I. K. the referee on the part of the within A. B. (L. M. the referee appointed on the part of the within named C. D. having, notwithstanding the notice, failed to attend) on I, N. O. the justice [as the case may be], do hereby adjudge and determine, that [here set forth the determination to which the referees or referee, or justice, as the case may be, shall subscribe their names].

Form of Indorsement, extending the Time limited for making the Award, to be written on the Foot or on the Back of the Order of the Justice appointing the Arbitrators.

WE A. B. and C. D. parties to the within arbitration do hereby agree to extend the same to the Witness our hands this

day of

day of

inclusive.

Witness A. B.
C.D.

Form of Acknowledgement of Fulfilment of the Award, to be written on the Foot or on the Back thereof.

I. A. B. do hereby acknowledge that the above award hath been fulfilled by C. D. who is hereby discharged of the same.

Witness my hand, this

day of

Witness A. B

Form of Conviction for refusing or delaying to fulfil the

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No. XVI.

44 Geo. III. c. 87.

No. XVII. 53 Geo. III. c. 40.

5 Eliz. C. 4.

1 Jac. 1. c. 6. Scotch Acts, 22d Parliament, Jac. 1. 1st Parliament, Car. 2.

convicted before me, [or, name the justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, or place, of that the said A. B. has refused or delayed to fulfil the award within the time limited, contrary to the statute made in the forty-fourth year of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act here set forth the title of the Act] and I (or we) the said justice (or justices) do hereby adjudge and determine the said A. B. for the said offence, to forfeit and lose the sum of of lawful money of Great Britain, and do order the same to be forthwith paid by him (her, or them, as the case may be).

[No. XVII-53 George III. c. 40-An Act to repeal so much of several Acts, passed in England and Scotland respectively, as empowers Justices of the Peace to rate Wages, or set Prices of Work, for Artificers, Labourers, or Craftsmen-[15th April 1813.]

WHEREAS an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandry, or Apprentices: And whereas another Act passed in the first year of the reign of his late Majesty King James the First, intituled, An Act made for the Explanation of the Statute made in the fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth's Reign, concerning Labourers: And whereas an Act passed in Scotland, in the twentysecond Parliament of his Majesty King James the First in England and the sixth of Scotland, intituled, Anent the Justices for keeping his Majesty's Peace, and their Constables: And whereas another Act passed in Scotland, in the first Parliament of his Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled, Commission and Instruction to the Justices of the Peace and Constables: And whereas it is expedient, that the powers given by the said Acts, and by various other Acts passed in the Parliaments of Scotland, to justices of the peace and magistrates of cities and boroughs, to rate wages or fix prices for work, for artificers, labourers, and craftsmen, should be repealed: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That so much of the said recited Acts, and of each of them, or of any other Act of Parliament in force in Scotland, as authorizes and empowers any justices of the peace or magistrates of cities and burghs to rate wages or fix prices of work for artificers, labourers, and craftsmen, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and all orders heretofore made by any justice or And all orders justices of the peace or magistrates, in England or Scotland respectively, made by maunder the authority of the said recited Acts, or any or either of them, gistrates under for or in relation to the rating any wages, or settling or fixing any prices such Acts reof work to be done or performed by any artificers, labourers, or craftsmen, pealed. or servants, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be void and of none effect; any thing in the said Acts, or any or either of them, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Recited Acts empowering magistrates to fix wages repealed;

[No. XVIII.] 57 George III. c. 115.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the twelfth Year of his late Majesty King George the First, and an Act of the twentysecond Year of his late Majesty King George the Second, against Payment of Labourers in Goods or by Truck, and to secure their Payment in the lawful Money of this Realm, to Labourers employed in the Manufacture of Articles made of Steel, or of Steel and Iron combined, and of Plated Articles, or of other Articles of Cutlery.-[11th July 1817.]

c. 115.

12 G. 1. c. 34.

WHEREAS the pernicious practice of paying the wages of labourers No. XVIII. concerned in the woollen trade in goods was by the provisions of an 57 Geo. III. Act of the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages, prohibited by certain regulations and under certain penalties therein enacted: And whereas, though the provisions of this Act were extended by the Act of the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and 22 G. 2. c. 27. Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hot Pressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages; yet the security thereby given, for the receipt of their wages in money, is in neither of these Acts extended to labouring men employed in the manufacture of articles made of steel, or of steel and iron combined, and of plated articles, or of other articles of cutlery: And whereas great injury and loss have arisen to labouring men employed in the manufacture of articles made of steel, or of steel and iron combined, and of plated articles or of other articles of cutlery, from being paid their wages in goods, or by way of truck, or otherwise than in the lawful coin of this realm: 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the Provisions of same, That the provisions of the aforesaid Act of the twelfth year of the 12 G. 1. c. 34. reign of his late Majesty King George the First, which prohibits the extended to payment of the wages of persons employed in the woollen manufacture in labourers emgoods, and to secure the payment of every part of their wages in good and lawful money of this kingdom, be extended to labourers employed in the manufacture of articles made of steel, or of steel and iron combined, and of plated articles, or of other articles of cutlery.

ployed in the manufacture of articles made of steel, &c. Provisions in

this Act.

II. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of the said Act, to facilitate the labourers in the woollen trade recovering the wages for 22 G. 2. c. 27. which they have stipulated, or to which they are entitled, as well as the applicable to provisions imposing a penalty on masters paying labourers in goods, be extended to persons employed in the manufacture of articles made of steel, or of steel and iron combined, and of plated articles, or of other articles of cutlery, in as full and ample a manner as if they had been enumerated in the aforesaid Act; and that all remedies, penalties, modes of recovery, powers, and privileges, and all other matters and things therein for these purposes contained, be and they are hereby extended to parties concerned in such manufactures or connected therewith,

[No. XIX.] 57 George III. c. 122.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the twelfth Year of his late Majesty King George the First, and an Act of the twentysecond Year of his late Majesty King George the Second, against Payment of Labourers in Goods or by Truck, and to secure their Payment in the lawful Money of this Realm, to Labourers employed in the Collieries, or in the working and getting of Coal, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and for extending the Provisions of the said Acts to Scotland and Ireland.-[11th July 1817.] No. XIX. WHEREAS the pernicious practice of paying the wages of labourers 57 Geo. III. concerned in the woollen trade in goods was by the provisions of an Act of the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen em- 12 G. 1. c. 34.

c. 122.

No. XIX. 57 Geo. III.

c. 122.

ployed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages, prohibited by certain regulations and under certain penalties therein enacted: And whereas, though the provisions of this Act were extended by the Act of the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses 22 G. 2. c. 27. committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hot Pressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages; yet the security thereby given, for the receipt of their wages in money, is in neither of these Acts extended to labouring men working in collieries, and other businesses connected with the trade of working and getting coal: And whereas great injury and loss have arisen to labouring men working in collieries and other businesses connected with the getting of coal, from being paid their wages in goods or by way of truck, or otherwise than in the lawful coin of this realm: 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the aforesaid Act of the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, which prohibits the payment of the wages of persons employed in the woollen manufacture in goods, and to secure the payment of every part of their wages in good and lawful money of this kingdom, be extended to labourers employed in working and getting coal in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Provisions of 12 G. 1. c. 34. extended to labourers in collieries.

Provisions in

22 G. 2. c. 27. applicable to this Act.

The provisions of recited Acts

extended to Scotland and Ireland.

No. XX.

c. 66,

II. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of the said Act, to facilitate the labourers in the woollen trade recovering the wages for which they have stipulated, or to which they are entitled, as well as the provisions imposing a penalty on masters paying labourers in goods, be extended to persons employed in collieries, and in working and getting coal, in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in as full and ample a manner as if they had been enumerated in the aforesaid Act; and that all remedies, penalties, modes of recovery, powers, and privileges, and all other matters and things therein for these purposes contained, be and they are hereby extended to parties concerned in coal works, or connected therewith.

III, And be it also further enacted, That the provisions of the Acts of the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, and of the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King Gearge the Second, be extended, and are hereby extended to Scotland and

Ireland.

[No. XX.] 59 George III. c. 66.-An Act to make further Provisions for the Regulation of Cotton Mills and Factories, and for the better Preservation of the Health of young Persons employed therein.-[2d July 1819.] WHEREAS an Act was made in the forty-second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the preservation of the 59 Geo. III. Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories: And whereas it is expedient that some further provision should be made for the regulation of mills, manufactories, and buildings, employed in the preparation and spinning of cotton wool: 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty, no child shall be employed in any description of work, for the spinning of cotton wool into yarn, or in any previous preparation of such wool, until he or she shall have attained the full age nine years.

42 G. 3. c. 73.

No child to be employed in cotton mills under nine years of age.

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