BURN'S

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

AND

Parish Officer.

VOL. III.

FACTORIES LUNATICS.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

AND

Parish Officer.

THE TWENTY-NINTH EDITION,

CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED,

CONTAINING THE

CASES & STATUTES TO 7 & 8 VICT., INCLUSIVE,

WITH

A New Collection of Precedents.

THE TITLE "POOR"

BY MR. COMMISSIONER BERE,

OF THE EXETER DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY,

THE REST OF THE WORK

BY THOMAS CHITTY, Esq.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

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1845.

THE

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,

Factor.

AND

PARISH OFFICER.

See "Agent," Vol. I.;—as to their Pledging Property,
see post, "Larceny."

Factories.

[42 Geo. III. c. 73; 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 30; 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103; 4 Will. IV. c. 1; 7 Vict. c. 15 (a).]

As
to disputes between masters and workmen in factories, see post,
"Servants," Vol. V.

By the 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 30, s. 3, wilfully destroying or injuring ma-
nufactured silk, woollen, linen, or cotton goods in the loom, &c., or
machinery, or forcibly entering buildings for that purpose, subjects the
offender to transportation for life, or imprisonment and whipping, &c.
See generally, "Malicious Injuries to Property," Vol. V.
As to rioters destroying, see post, " Hundred;" "Riot," Vol. V.

Disputes of

workmen.

Destroying

As to stealing goods in a course of manufacture, see post, "Larceny." Stealing of
As to exporting of tools, &c., see "Manufactures," Vol. V.

Exporting tools.

to the

of

The stat. 42 Geo. III. c. 73, intituled, “An Act for the Preservation of 42 Geo. 3, c. 73. the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories," enacts, (s. 1), "That, from Mills and factorie and after the second day of December one thousand eight hundred and employing a certwo, all such mills and factories within Great Britain and Ireland, persons, subjected wherein three or more apprentices, or twenty or more other persons, of 42 Geo. 3, c. 73. shall at any time be employed, shall be subject to the several rules and regulations contained in this act; and the master or mistress of every such mill or factory is hereby strictly enjoined and required to pay due attention to and act in strict conformity to the said rules and regulations." Sect. 2. "That all and every the rooms and apartments in or belong- Whitewashing and ing to any such mill or factory shall, twice at least in every year, be airing the rooms. well and sufficiently washed with quicklime and water over every part of the thereof; care

be paid by the master or mistress of such mills or factories to provide a sufficient number of windows and openings in such rooms or apartments, to insure a proper supply of fresh air in and through the same." And see the 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, s. 26, post, 10.

(a) This act of 7 Vict. c. 15, was passed after that part of this work containing the statute 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, was printed. It repeals by sect.

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40, post, 16 k, a few of the provisions
of the 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 103, as to
proceedings for penalties.

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