No. XXIV. 5 Geo. IV.

c. 96.

day of
that A. B. hath been duly summoned, and hath
neglected to appear and give evidence before C. D. and E. F. the arbi-
trators appointed by and between G. H. and I. K. to determine the matters
in dispute between them at
in the county [or riding,
stewartry, division, city, burgh, liberty, town, or place] of

on the
day of
under and by virtue of an Act made in
the fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act [here set
forth the title of this Act], and the said A. B. being required by me, the said
justice, to give evidence before the said arbitrators, and still refusing so to
do, therefore I, the said justice, do hereby, in pursuance of the said Act,
commit the said A. B. to the [describing the prison and the house of correc-
tion] there to remain without bail or mainprize for his [or her] offence
aforesaid, until he [or she] shall submit himself [or herself] to be ex-
amined, and give his [or her] evidence before the said arbitrators, touching
the matters referred to them as aforesaid, or shall otherwise be discharged
by due course of law: And you the [constable or other peace officer or of
ficers to whom the Warrant is directed] are hereby authorized and required
to take into your custody the body of the said A. B. and him [or her]
safely to convey to the said prison [or house of correction] and him
[or her] there to deliver to the gaoler [or keeper] thereof, who is hereby
authorized and required to receive into his custody the body of the said
A. B. and him [or her] safely to detain and keep, pursuant to this com-
mitment. Given under my hand, this

in the year of our Lord

day of

[This commitment to be directed to the proper peace officer, and the gaoler [or keeper] of the prison [or house of correction.]

in the year of our Lord

pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act [state the title of this Act], is liable to pay to

and the said

of

and also the sum of

the sum of

having refused or neglected to pay the same for the space of two days and upwards subsequent to the making such award, these are therefore to command you to levy the said sum of by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said and I do hereby order and direct the goods and chattels so to be distrained to be sold and disposed of within days, unless the said sum of for which such distress shall be made, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping such distress, shall be sooner paid; and you are also hereby commanded to certify to me what you shall do by virtue of this my warrant. Given under my hand and seal, at

the

day of

Form of the Constable's Return to the Warrant of Distress.
I,

do hereby certify to

constable of

of

justice of the peace that I have made diligent search for, but do not know of, nor can find any goods and chattels of distress and sale whereof I may levy the sum of suant to his warrant for that purpose. Dated the in the year of our Lord

Given under my hand this

year of our Lord

day of

by

Form of Commitment thereupon to the House of Correction.

pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act [state the tille of this Act], became liable to pay to

and also the sum of

for costs, time, and expences, making together the sum of

the sum of

and having refused or neglected to pay the same for the space of two days and upwards subsequent to the making of such award, my warrant was, according to the provisions of the said Act, duly made and issued for the levying the said sum of

and sale of the goods and chattels of the said whereas it appears by the return of

dated the

day of

by distress

: And constable of

by distress and may be levied pur

that he hath made diligent search for, but doth not know of, nor can find
any goods and chattels of the said
sale whereof the said sum of
suant to my said warrant: These are therefore to command you the said
constable of
to apprehend the said

and convey him to the said house of correction at
aforesaid, and deliver him there to the keeper of the said house of correc-
tion; and these are also to command you the keeper of the said house of
correction, to receive him the said
into the said
house of correction, and there keep him without bail or mainprize for the
space of
months, unless the said sum of
so ordered to be paid as aforesaid, shall be sooner satisfied,
with all reasonable expences. Given under my hand and seal, at

Form of Commitment where the Warrant of Distress is withheld.

under an award made in the year of our Lord

pursuant to an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of
his present Majesty, intituled An Act [state the title of this Act], became
liable to pay to
the sum of

the sum of
and also
for costs, time, and expences, making
which he has refused or

together the sum of
neglected to pay for the space of two days and upwards subsequent to the
making of such award: And whereas it appears to me that the recovery
of such sum and warrant of distress and sale of the goods and chattels of
the said
will be attended with consequences
ruinous or in an especial manner injurious to the defaulter [and his
family, if any] and I have therefore determined to withhold such warrant
and to commit the said
to prison, pursuant to the
said Act: These are therefore to command you, the said constable of
to apprehend the said
and convey
aforesaid,

him to the said house of correction at
and deliver him there to the keeper of the said house of correction: And
these are also to command you, the keeper of the said house of correction,
to receive him the said
into the said house of
correction, and there keep him without bail or mainprize for the space of
months, unless the said sum of

so ordered to be paid as aforesaid shall be sooner satisfied, with all reason-
able expences. Given under my hand and seal, at

day of

the

No. XXIV· 5 Geo. IV.

c. 96.

No. XXV. 6 Geo. IV.

[No. XXV.] 6 George IV. c. 129.-An Act to repeal the Laws relating to the Combination of Workmen, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.-[6th July 1825.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the Laws relative to the Combination of 5 G. 4. c. 95, VOL. VIII.

R

c. 129.

No. XXV. -6 Geo. IV. c. 129.

Recited Act repealed.

Certain Acts shall stand

and remain

to combina

men.

3 H. 6. c. 1.

33 H. 8. st. 1. c. 9, (I.)

2 & 3 Ed. 6. c. 15.

Workmen, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, by which Act various statutes and parts of statutes relating to combinations among workmen for fixing the wages of labour, and for regulating or controlling the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, were repealed, and other provisions were made for protecting the free employment of capital and labour, and for punishing combinations interfering with such freedom, by means of violence, threats, or intimidation: And whereas the provisions of the said Act have not been found effectual: And whereas 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 whereas 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 thercof: 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 passing of this Act the said recited Act of the last session of Parliament shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, so much of an Act made in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Edward the First, concerning conspirators who do confeder or repealed, viz. bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, as relates or extends 33 Edw. 1. so to combinations or conspiracies of workmen or other persons to obtain an far as relates advance of or to fix the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours or tion of Work- duration of the time of working, or to decrease the quantity of work, or to regulate or controul the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof, or to combinations or conspiracies of masters, manufacturers, or other persons, to lower or fix the rate of wages, or to increase or alter the hours or duration of the time of working, or to increase the quantity of work, or to regulate or controul the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof, or to oblige workmen to enter into work; and also so much of a statute made in the third year of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the annual congregations and confederacies made by masons in their general chapters assenibled; and also a certain Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the thirty-third year of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act for Servants' Wages; also a certain Act passed in the second and third years of King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act touching Victuallers and 5 Parl. Jac. 1. Handicraftsmen; and also a certain other Act passed in the Parliament (S.) of Scotland, in the fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled Of the Fees of Craftsmen, and the Price of their Worke; also a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled Of the Fees of Workmen, also a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled Of Writches and Masones; also a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the seventh Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, 7 Parl. Jac. 1. intituled The Price of ilk Workmanshippe; also a certain other Act passed (S.) in the Parliament of Scotland, in the fifth Parliament of Queen Mary of 5 Parl. Mary Scotland, intituled The Price of Craftesmenne's Wark, of Meate and Drinke in Tavernes; also a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the seventh Parliament of King James the Sixth of Scotland, intituled Anent the setting of Ordour and Price in all Stuiffe; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for regulating the Trade of Silk Throwing, as provides and enacts, that the corporation of silk throwers should not, by virtue of that Act, nor any thing therein contained, make any orders, ordinances, or bye laws, to set any rates or prices whatsoever upon the throwing of silk, to bind or enforce their members to work at; also a certain other Act passed in the seventh year of King

(S.)

7 Parl. Jac. 6. (S.)

13 & 14 C. 2. c. 15. in part.

7 G. 1. st. 1. c. 13. in part.

No. XXV.

6 Geo. IV.

c. 129.

12 G. 1. c. 34. in part.

George the First, intituled An Act for regulating the Journeymen Tailors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, excepting so much thereof as relates to the recovery of wages, or to journeymen tailors or servants departing from their service, or refusing to enter into work or employment, as therein mentioned; also so much of an Act passed in the twelfth year of 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, as provides that contracts, covenants, or agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules, and orders, made or entered into by or between persons brought up in, or professing, using, or exercising the art and mystery of a woolcomber or weaver, or journeyman woolcomber or journeyman weaver, as therein mentioned, shall be illegal, null, and void, and as punishes woolcombers, weavers, journeymen woolcombers and weavers, and other persons concerned in the woollen manufactures, for keeping up, continuing, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing, or being knowingly concerned in, presuming or attempting to put in execution such agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules, or orders, as therein mentioned, and as provides that the provisions of the said Act of the twelfth of George the First, just recited, shall extend to the persons therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of 3 G. 2. c. 14. Ireland, in the third year of King George the Second, intituled An Act to (I.) in part. prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen, Artificers, and Labourers, employed in the several Trades and Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for the better Payment of their Wages; as also to prevent Abuses in making of Bricks, and to ascertain their Dimensions, as declares illegal, null, and void the contracts, covenants, agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules, and orders therein mentioned, and makes it an offence to keep up, continue, act in, make, enter into, sign, seal, or be knowingly concerned therein, and to presume or attempt to put the same into execution, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the Parliament 17 G. 2. c. 28, of Ireland, in the seventeenth year of King George the Second, intituled (I.) in part. An Act for continuing several Statutes now near expiring, and for amending other Statutes, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, as declares the assemblies therein mentioned to be unlawful assemblies, the houses where they meet common nuisances, and punishes the master and mistress thereof, as likewise those who enter into the contracts, covenants, or articles therein mentioned, or collect or pay money for the support of persons as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the 22 G. 2. c. 27. twenty-second year of King George the Second, intituled An Act for the in part. more effectual preventing Frauds and 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 Hotpressers, and of all persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages, as extends those provisions of the said Act of the twelfth of George the First herein mentioned to the persons therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in 29 G. 2. c. 23. the twenty-ninth year of King George the Second, intituled An Act to ren- in part. der more effectual an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George, to prevent unlawful Combinations af Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages; and also an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture, and for preventing Disputes among the Persons concerned therein, and for limiting a Time for Prosecution for the Forfeiture appointed by the aforesaid Act, in case of the Payment of the Workmen's Wages in any other Manner than in Money, as relates to the making of rates for the payment of wages, continuing and altering and notifying them as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the third year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for continuing and amending certain temporary Statutes heretofore made, for the better Regulation of the City of Cork, and for enlarging the Salary of the Treasurer, and for the better regulating the Sale of Coals in the said City, and for erecting

3 G. 3. c. 17.

(I.) in part.

No. XXV.

6 Geo. IV. c. 129.

3 G. 3. c. 34. (1.) in part.

8 G. 3 c. 17.

11 & 12 G. 3. c. 18. (I.)

11 & 12 G. 3. c. 33. (I.) in part.

13 G. 3. c. 68. in part.

17 G. 3. c. 55. in part.

and continuing Lamps in the same, and for the better preserving the Streets and Highways therein, and for confirming and establishing a Court of Conscience in the said City, and for regulating the Assize of Bread therein, and for securing the Quays by Parapet Walls, as relates to the assemblies and combinations of artificers, journeymen, apprentices, labourers, and manufacturers therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the third year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures, as relates to meeting in order to consult upon or enter into rules, agreements, or combinations to ascertain or fix the price of labour or workmanship, and as relates to administering oaths or declarations tending to fix the price of wages or workmanship, and as relates to issuing and delivering tickets, certificates, and tokens of parties being licensed to work, and as relates to rules, orders, and regulations relating to the price or wages of labour or workmanship, and as relates to oaths to enter into combinations or agreements to ascertain or fix the price of wages or workmanship, and to oaths and combinations not to work for a particular employer, as therein mentioned; also a certain other Act, passed in the eighth year of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the Seventh Year of King George the First, intituled An Act for regulating the Journeymen Tailors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality;' also so much of a certain other Act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the eleventh and twelfth years of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Regulation of the City of Cork, and for other Purposes therein mentioned relative to the said City, as relates to the meetings and assemblies therein mentioned, the administering and taking oaths and declarations, to the tickets, certificates, advertisements, and writings, and to the rules, orders, agreements, and regulations, and to the combinations and agreements to ascertain or fix the price of wages, labour, or workmanship, or not to work, and as relates to the refusal or neglect, by persons not in actual service, to work on application made, and as relates to the detection and discovery of assemblies and combinations for any of the above recited purposes, and as relates to ascertaining wages as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the cleventh and twelfth years of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regu lating the Journeymen Tailors and Journeymen Shipwrights of the City of Dublin, and the Liberties thereof, and of the County of Dublin as punishes those who permit the clubs and societies therein mentioned to be kept or held in their houses or apartments, and as makes the contracts, covenants, and agreements therein mentioned, and oaths to enforce them illegal and as punishes persons for keeping up, continuing, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing, or being knowingly interested or concerned in such contracts, covenants, or agreements, and as punishes persons not retained or employed for refusing to enter into work or employment on request made, as therein mentioned, and as regulates the hours of work and the rate of wages as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act, passed in the thirteenth year of King George the Third, intituled An Act to empower the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufac ture within their respective Jurisdictions, as relates to settling, regulating, ordering and declaring the wages and prices of work, and the notification thereof, and makes it an offence to deviate from such settlement, regulation, order, and declaration, or to ask, receive, or take more or less wages or larger or less prices than shall be so settled, or to enter into combinations, or for that purpose to decoy or solicit, or to assemble, as therein mentioned, and as relates to the detection of such offences, and as makes it an offence to retain or employ journeymen weavers, out of the limits therein mentioned; or to give, allow, or pay, or cause to be given, allowed, or paid, more or less wages than shall be settled, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other Act, passed in the seventeenth year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better regulating the Hut Manufactory, as relates to the keeping up, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing, or being knowingly concerned in the contracts,