materials whether the same may have been purloined or embezzled, or whether the said materials are wholly or in part wrought or begun to be wrought, or in what state or condition such materials may be;" and for remedy whereof enacts "that it shall be lawful for the owner or owners of any such materials, from time to time, as occasion shall require, to demand entrance, and enter, at all seasonable hours in the daytime, into the shops or outhouses of any person or persons employed by him or them to work-up any of the said materials, or other place or places where the work shall be carried on, and there to inspect the state and condition of such materials." [Penalty for refusal.] Sect. 16. All penalties in the act 22 Geo. 2 and in this act, relating to the said materials, shall be applicable to the tools, &c. with which any person is entrusted for manufacturing the same. of Sect. 17. Recites that "journeymen dyers, servants and apprentices frequently abuse the trust reposed in them, by dyeing goods for their own profit, without the consent of their masters," and enacts that "if any person hired, retained, or employed as a journeyman dyer, or as a servant or apprentice, in the dyeing any felt or hat, or any woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, leather, fur, flax, mohair, or silk materials, whether the same shall be wrought or unwrought, or shall be mixed or unmixed with other of the said materials, shall, without the consent of the master, person or persons, by whom such journeyman, servant or apprentice, shall be hired, retained, or employed, wilfully dye any of the said materials, whether wrought or unwrought, or mixed or unmixed with other of the said materials, or without such consent shall wilfully receive any such materials as aforesaid, for the purpose of dyeing the same, whether the same shall be dyed or prepared for dyeing, he or she so guilty of either of the said offences shall for the first offence forfeit the sum of ten shillings, and for the second offence the sum of twenty shillings, and for every subsequent offence the sum of forty shillings; or if any person shall procure any such materials as aforesaid to be dyed by any person so hired, retained, or employed as a journeyman, servant or apprentice, without the consent of his or her master or employer, or shall offer any such materials to any such journeyman, servant or apprentice, for the purpose aforesaid, he or she so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted by the oath or (being of the people called quakers) affirmation of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before two or more justices of the peace for the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place where the offence shall be committed, shall for the first offence forfeit the sum of five shillings, and for the second offence the sum of twenty shillings, and for every subsequent offence the sum of four pounds; and each of the said penalties shall be paid to the informer or informers." [Imprisonment in case of nonpayment.] Sect 18. Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1861. Sect. 19. Repealed by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 86, s. 17, ante, p. 202. Sect. 20. Appeal against orders and judgment of justices under act, or under 12 Geo. 1, c. 34, or 22 Geo. 2, c. 27. Sects. 21, 22. Form of and filing convictions against act, or against 22 Geo. 2, c. 27. Sect. 23. No repeal of former law, except as expressly pro vided. Sect. 24. Repealed, Statute Law Revision Act, 1871. 28 GEO. 3, c. 55. An Act for the better and more effectual Protection of Stocking Frames, and the Machines or Engines annexed thereto, or used therewith; and for the Punishment of Persons destroying or injuring of such Stocking Frames, Machines, or Engines, and the Framework-knitted Pieces, Stockings, and other Articles and Goods used and made in the Hosiery or Framework-knitted Manufactory; or breaking or destroying any Machinery contained in any Mill or Mills used, or any way employed in preparing or spinning of Wool or Cotton for the Use of the Stocking Frame. Sect. 1. Recites that "the frames for making of frameworkknitted pieces, stockings, and other articles and goods in the hosiery or framework-knitted manufactory, are very valuable and expensive machines, and generally the property of the hosier or manufacturer, who lets the same to hire to his workmen, or framework-knitters; and it hath frequently happened that the hosier, or manufacturer, being the owner or employer of such frame or frames, and having so put and let the same out to hire, and wanting, for the accommodation of his trade and business, to take and remove such frame or frames from the use and possession of one workman into the hands and custody of another, and having for such purpose given the customary and usual notice to the workman in whose hands or custody such frame was, so to deliver up the same, such workman hath wilfully detained and withheld the same, and sometimes absolutely and unlawfully sold and disposed thereof, to the great grievance, inconvenience, and loss of such hosier or manufacturer." "That if any framework-knitter or frame work-knitters, who shall or may rent or take by the hire, any stocking frame or frames, either with or without any machine or engine thereto annexed, or therewith to be employed, of and from any person or persons whomsoever, shall at any time, from and after the passing of this act, refuse to yield up and re-deliver such frame or frames, with the machine or engine therewith let (if any such there shall be) to the person or persons of whom he or they shall or may so rent the same, having received from such person or persons fourteen days previous notice for such purpose, then, and in every such case, the person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted by the oath or (if the owner or employer thereof be of the people called quakers) solemn affirmation of the owner or employer of such frame or frames, or by the oath or affirmation of any other credible witness or witnesses, 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 or affirmation the said justice or justices is and are hereby impowered and required to administer), the person or persons so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty shillings to and for the use of the poor of the parish where such offence shall be committed." [Punishment in default.] Sect. 2. "That if any person so renting or taking to hire any stocking frame, with or without any such machine or engine as aforesaid, shall at any time, from and after the passing of this act, sell or otherwise unlawfully dispose of any such stocking frame, or the machine or engine therewith let (if any such there shall be), without the consent of the owner or owners thereof, every such offender, being thereof lawfully convicted upon any indictment to be found against him, shall suffer solitary imprisonment in the common gaol or house of correction of the county, riding, division, city, liberty, town or place wherein such offence shall have been committed, without bail or mainprize, for a space not less than three calendar months, nor exceeding twelve calendar months." Sect. 3. "If any person or persons shall wilfully and knowingly receive or purchase any such stocking frame, machine or engine so sold or unlawfully disposed of as aforesaid, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and shall thereof be lawfully convicted on any indictment to be found against him or them, every such offender or offenders shall be subject to such and the like punishment as by this act is inflicted or provided to be inflicted on such person so selling or unlawfully disposing of any such stocking frame, machine or engine as aforesaid." Sect. 4. Repealed, Statute Law Revision Act, 1871. 32 GEO. 3, c. 56. An Act for preventing the Counterfeiting of Certificates of the Character of Servants. Sects. 1 to 6. Penalty of 207. on any person personating a master, &c. or giving a false character to a servant; or asserting that a servant has been hired for a period of time or in a station; or was discharged at any other time, or had not been hired in any previous service, contrary to the fact; or any person offering himself as a servant, pretending to have served where he has not served, or with a false certificate, or who shall alter any certificate; or who having been before in service shall pretend not to have been in such service. Sect. 7. Repealed, Statute Law Revision Act, 1871. Sect. 8. Offender discovering accomplice before information, indemnified. Sect. 9. Conviction. Sect. 10. Appeal to quarter sessions. 39 & 40 GEO. 3, c. 77. An Act for the Security of Collieries and Mines, and for the better Regulation of Colliers and Miners (a). Sect. 4. "And whereas the owners and lessees of coal, iron stone, or iron ore, contracting to get the same raised by weight, are often under the necessity of advancing money to the collier and miners upon the measure thereof in heaps at or near the colliery or mine work before the same can be carried to be weighed, and great frauds are practised in the walling and stacking of such coal, iron stone, and iron ore, by which the colliers and miners obtain money beyond what they earn or are able to repay, and miners often defraud each other by conveying away iron stone from one heap into another; be it therefore further enacted, that if any person or persons shall wall or stack, or cause to be walled or stacked, any coal, iron stone, or iron ore in any false or fraudulent manner, with an intent to deceive his or their employer or employers, or if any person or persons shall take or remove any iron stone or iron ore with (a) Sections 1, 2, 5, and 7 of this act were expressly repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1871; sect. 3 is repealed by the 38 & 39 Vict. c. 86, s. 17 (see ante, p. 202). Sects. 6, 7, 8, and 10 are immaterial in relation to sect. 4. intent to defraud the person or persons who shall have raised the same, and shall be thereof convicted, either by the confession of the party offending or upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before any one or more justice or justices of the peace for the county wherein such offence shall have been committed, it shall and may be lawful for such justice or justices to commit any such person to the house of correction or common gaol for the same county, for any time not exceeding three months." Sect. 9. "No person shall be prosecuted for any offence against this act unless such prosecution be begun within nine calendar months after the offence committed." 43 GEO. 3, c. 86. An Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen, Artificers, Journeymen and Labourers in Ireland, and for other purposes relating thereto. Sects. 1 to 5 and sect. 10, repealed by 6 Geo. 4, c. 129, s. 2. Sect. 8 repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 53. Sects. 15 and 16, and also part of sect. 20 and schedule, repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1872. Sects. 6 and 7 have not been repealed. Sect. 6 makes workmen refusing to work, or absenting from work, or returning work before it is finished, liable to imprisonment for six months, or for three months with hard labour. This section ought not to be treated by magistrates as in force. Sect. 7 imposes a penalty on masters knowingly employing a workman already employed by another. 5 GEO. 4, c. 96. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relative to the Arbitration of Disputes between Masters and Workmen. [See this act in Lovesy's Law of Arbitrations between Masters and Workmen.] |