13 GEO. II. c. 8 (1739).

An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the first year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled an Act for the more effectual preventing the abuses and frauds of persons employed in the working up the woollen, linen, fustian, cotton and iron manufactures of this kingdom; and for extending the said Act to the manufactures of leather.” Section 1 extends 1 Anne, c. 22, s. 1, to "any person or persons who shall be hired or employed in the working up of any woollen, linen, fustian, cotton or iron manufactures," and who shall "purloin, imbezzil, secrete, sell, pawn, exchange, or otherwise illegally dispose of any of the materials with which he, she, or they shall be respectively entrusted to work up such woollen, linen, fustian, cotton or iron manufactures, whether the same or any part thereof be or be not first wrought, made up or manufactured, or shall reel short or false yarn," such person or persons are to forfeit double value or be sent to the House of Correction, and for a second offence to forfeit four times the value.

Section 6. "To prevent oppression of the labourers and workmen employed in any respect in or about making or manufacturing of gloves, breeches, boots, shoes, slippers, wares or goods of that sort before mentioned," "all goods and materials delivered out to be wrought up in the manufacture last-mentioned shall be delivered with a declaration at the same time of the true weight, quantity or tale thereof, on pain that every offender shall forfeit and pay to such labourer, manufacturer or worker, double the value of what shall be due for such work by him, her or them done and performed, &c."

Repealed as to payment of forfeitures, 58 Geo. III. c. 51, s. 2; so far as relates to payments of wages in goods by 1 & 2 Will. IV. c. 36, ss. 1 & 2; except as to Scotland and Ireland, in regard to woollen, linen, cotton, flax, mohair and silk manufactures by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 40, s. 1; as to ss. 7 & 8 by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 86, s. 17.

15 GEO. II. c. 27 (1741-42).

"An Act for the more effectual preventing any cloth or woollen goods remaining upon the rack or tenters, or any woollen yarn or wool left out to dry, from being stolen or taken away in the night time."

Section 1 empowers one or more Justices to issue search-warrant for cloth stolen off tenters.

22 GEO. II. c. 27 (1749).

An Act for the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses committed by persons employed in the manufacture of hats, and in the woollen, linnen, fustian, cotton, iron, leather, furr, 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 (a).

Section 1 recites clauses in 13 Geo. II. c. 8; and proceeds to extend and amend the same by enacting that "if any person or persons whatsoever, who shall be hired or employed to make any felt or hat, or to prepare or work up any woollen, linnen, fustian, cotton, iron, leather, furr, hemp, flax, mohair, or silk manufactures, or any manufactures made up of wooll, furr, hemp, flax, cotton, mohair, or silk, or of any of the said materials mixed one with another, shall from and after the twentyfourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, purloin, imbezil, secrete, sell, pawn, exchange, or otherwise unlawfully dispose of any of the materials with which he, she, or they shall be respectively intrusted, whether the same or any part thereof be or be not first wrought, made up, manufactured, or converted into merchantable wares, or shall reel false or short yarn (b), and shall be thereof lawfully convicted, by the oath or (if the owner thereof be of the people called Quakers) solemn affirmation of the owner of such goods or materials, or by the oath or affirmation of any other credible witness or witnesses, or by the confession of the person or persons charged with such offence, before any one or more (c) justice or justices of the peace of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town or place where such offence shall be committed, or where the person or persons so charged shall reside or inhabit (which oath or affirmation the said justice or justices is and are hereby empowered and required to administer), it shall and may be lawful to and for the said justice or justices, by warrant under his or their hand and seal or hands and seals, to commit the person or persons so convicted to the House of Correction, or other public prison of such county, riding, division, city, liberty, town or place, there to be kept to hard labour for the space of fourteen days, and also to order the

(a) By 6 & 7 Vict. c. 40, so much of the above Act as relates to the woollen, linen, cotton, flax, mohair, and silk manufactures, is repealed. Repealed as to penalties by 17 Geo. III. c. 56, s. 16, and 58 Geo.

III. c. 51, s. 2.

(b) Repealed as to reeling short yarn by 14 Geo. III. c. 44.

(c) 17 Geo. III. c. 56, s. 2, substitutes "two or more."

person or persons so convicted to be once publicly whipped (d) at the market place, or some other public place of the city, town or place where such offender or offenders shall be respectively committed; and in case of a further conviction, in manner before prescribed by this Act, for or upon a second or other subsequent offence of the same kind, it shall and may be lawful to and for the justice or justices, before whom such conviction shall 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 (d) at the market place, or some other public place of the city, town or place where such offender or offenders shall be respectively committed, twice or oftener, as to such justice or justices shall appear reasonable; anything in the said Act of the first year of her said late Majesty's reign, or in the said in part recited Act of the thirteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding."

Section 2. "That if any person or persons shall buy, receive, accept, or take, by way of gift, pawn, pledge, 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, furr, hemp, flax, mohair, or silk manufactures, or any manufactures made up of wooll, furr, 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 wooll, furr, 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 shall offer to sell, pawn, pledge, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the said materials, or shall 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 imbezzilled," &c. Such person being convicted shall forfeit a sum of twenty pounds (e) for the first offence, and on non-payment be committed to the House of Correction or other public prison for fourteen days, and shall for every second or subsequent offence forfeit the sum of forty pounds. Section 7. "That if any person or persons entrusted with any of the

(d) Repealed as to punishment and penalties, 17 Geo. III. c. 56, s. 1 and s. 16. See also 1 Geo. IV. c. 57.

(c) By sec. 3 of 17 Geo. III. c. 56,

"the penalty for the first offence shall be any sum not more than forty pounds, nor less than twenty pounds.' But see 38 & 39 Vict. c. 86, s. 8.

materials hereinbefore mentioned, in order to prepare, work up or manufacture the same, shall not use all such materials in the preparing, working up, or manufacturing of the same, and shall neglect or delay, for the space of twenty-one days (ƒ) after such materials shall be prepared, worked up, or manufactured, to return (if required by the owner or owners of such materials so to do) so much of the said materials as shall not be used as aforesaid to the person or persons entrusting him, her, or them therewith, such neglect or delay shall be deemed and adjudged to be an imbezzling or purloining of such materials; and the person or persons so neglecting or delaying, being thereof convicted, in manner before prescribed for the conviction of offenders against this Act, shall suffer the like punishment as persons convicted of imbezzling or purloining any of the materials herein before mentioned, are by this Act rendered subject and liable to."

Section 12 recites 12 Geo. I. c. 34, and enacts that," all the provisions, regulations, pains, penalties, and forfeitures therein contained, shall, from and after the said twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, extend, and be construed, deemed, and adjudged to extend, to journeymen dyers, journeymen hot pressers, and all other persons whatsoever employed in or about any of the woollen manufactures of this kingdom, and also to journeymen, servants, workmen, and labourers, and all other persons whatsoever employed in the making of felts or hats, or in or about any of the manufactures of silk, mohair, furr, hemp, flax, linnen, cotton, fustian, iron or leather, or in or about any of the manufactures made up of wooll, furr, hemp, flax, cotton, mohair or silk, or of any of the said materials mixed one with another, in as full and ample manner as the said provisions, regulations, pains, penalties, and forfeitures are by the said last mentioned Act declared to extend to the several and respective persons therein named" (g).

27 GEO. II. c. 7 (1753—4).

An Act for the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses committed by persons employed in the manufacture of clocks and watches.

Section 1. "That if any person or persons whatsoever, who shall be hired or employed by any person or persons practising the trade or trades of clock-making or watch-making, or any part or branch, or parts

(f) 17 Geo. III. c. 56, s. 7 substituted eight days; see also 9 Geo. IV. c. 31, s. 1.

(g) But see 6 Geo. IV. c. 129, s. 2, and 9 Geo. IV. c. 31, s. 1.

or branches of such trade or trades, to make, finish, alter, repair, or clean any clock or clocks, watch or watches, or any part or parts of a clock or clocks, watch or watches, or be intrusted by any person or persons practising the said trade or trades, with any gold, silver, or other metal or material, to be or that shall be in the whole or in part wrought or manufactured for any part or parts of a clock or clocks, watch or watches, or any diamond or other precious stone, to be or that shall be set or fixed in or about any clock or clocks, watch or watches, shall, after the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, purloin, e embezzle, secrete, sell, pawn, or exchange, or otherwise unlawfully dispose of any clock or watch, or any part or parts of any clock or watch, or any gold, silver, or other metal or material, or any part thereof, or any diamond or other precious stone, with which such person or persons shall be intrusted by any person or persons practising the said trade or trades, or any part or branch, or parts or branches of such trade or trades, and shall be thereof convicted by the oath of the owner of such goods, or by the oath of any other credible witness or witnesses, or by the confession of the person or persons charged with such offence, before any one or more justice or justices of the peace of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where such offence shall be committed, or where the person or persons so charged shall reside or inhabit (which oath the said justice or justices is and are hereby empowered and required to administer); every such offender shall, for the first offence, forfeit twenty pounds, &c."

Section 2: "That if any person or persons shall buy, receive, accept, or take by way of gift, pawn, pledge, sale, or exchange, or in any other manner whatsoever, of or from any person or persons whomsoever, any clock or watch, or any part or parts of a clock or watch, or any gold, silver, or other metal or material, as aforesaid, whether the same or any part thereof, be or be not wrought or manufactured, or any diamond or other precious stone, which shall have been intrusted with any person or persons hired or employed as aforesaid by any person or persons practising the said trade or trades, he, she, or they so buying, receiving, accepting, or taking any such goods, materials, or effects, knowing the same to be so purloined or imbezzled, being thereof lawfully convicted in manner before prescribed for the conviction of persons purloining or embezzling the said goods, materials, or effects, shall, for the first offence, forfeit twenty pounds, &c."