§ 27. § 29. § 31. required hath been exercised (as is aforefaid) be retained, and fhall not refuse to serve according to the Tenor of that Statute, upon the Pain and Penalty thereafter mentioned; and that no Perfon dwelling in any City or Town Corporate, uling or exercifing any of the Mysteries or Crafts of a Clothier, that doth or fhall put Cloth to making and Sale, fhall take any Apprentice or Servant to be inftructed or taught in any of the Arts, Occupations, Crafts, or Mysteries which he doth use or exercise, except fuch Servant or Apprentice be his Son, or else that the Father and Mother of fuch Apprentice or Servant fhall have Freehold Property of a certain Amount; and that no Perfon dwelling in any fuch Market Town, ufing or exercifing the Feat, Mystery, or Art of a Clothier, that doth or fhall put Cloth to making and Sale, fhall take any Apprentice, or in any wife teach or inftruct any Person in the Art, Science, or Mystery laft before recited, except fuch Servant or Apprentice fhall be his Son, or elfe that the Father or Mother of fuch Apprentice fhall have Freehold Property of a certain annual Value; and that no Perfon fhall fet up, occupy, ufe, or exercise any Craft, Mystery, or Occupation then used or occupied within the Realm of England or Wales, except he fhall have been brought up therein Seven Years at the leaft as an Apprentice in Manner and Form in the faid laft recited A& mentioned, nor fhall fet any Perfon on work in fuch Myftery, Art, or Occupation, except he fhall have been Apprentice as is aforefaid, or else having ferved as an Apprentice fhall become a Journeyman, or be hired by the Year, fo far only as the faid laft mentioned Provifion respects Perfons employed in any of the Crafts, Myfteries, or Occupations of Clothiers, Woollen Cloth Weavers, Tuckers, Fullers, Clothworkers, Sheermen, or Dyers of Wool or Woollen Cloth; and that all Perfons that shall have Three Apprentices in any of the faid Crafts, Mysteries, or Occupations of a Clothmaker, Fuller, Sheerman, or Weaver, fhall retain and keep One Journeyman, and for every other Apprentice above the Number of Three Apprentices One other Journeyman; and fo much of a certain other Act paffed in the Third Year of King 3 Jac. 1. c. 16. James the Firt, intituled, An A& for the Repeal of one At made in §3, 4. the Fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, concerning the Length of Kerfies, as directs that Kerfies, commonly called Ordinary Kerfies, and that Kerfies called Sorting Kerfies, fhall not exceed refpectively a certain Length, and fhall be refpectively of a certain Weight according to the Length, and if any Kerfies fhall either exceed the prefcribed Length or fall fhort of the prefcribed Weight, then every Perfon that fhall make the fame for Sale fhall be fubject to the Forfeiture therein mentioned, and that every Perfon felling or trading in any fuch Kerfey fhall pay a Cuftom and Subfidy after a specified Rate; and fo much of a certain other A&t paffed in the Thirteenth Year of King George the First, intituled, An Ad for the better Regu 13 G. 1. c. 23, lation of the Woollen Manufacture, and for preventing Difputes among the Perfons concerned therein, and for limiting a Time for profecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by an Act of the Twelfth Year of His Majesty's Reign, in cafe of Payment of the Workmen's Wages in any other Manner than in Money, as directs that no Clothier or Maker of Woollen Cloths, Druggets, or other Woollen Goods, or Goods mixed with Wool, fhall ufe any Ends of Yarn, Wefts, or other Refuse of Cloths, Druggets, or other Woollen Goods, or Goods mixed with Wool, (Flocks and Pinions only excepted) by working the fame up again into any Sorts of § 33. § 10-14. S G. 3. c. 51. § 23. A&t fhall not avoid Contracts of Apprenticeship. Apprenticeship not required. A&t fhall not revive any Act repealed. of Goods whatfoever, under a certain Penalty; and that every Owner of Tentor or Tentors, Rack or Racks for fuch Cloth, within the Counties of Gloucester, Wilts, and Somerset, shall measure fuch Tentor or Tentor's Rack as shall be made use of for tentering or racking fuch Cloth, and mark the true Length of Yards of each Tentor or Rack thereon, in the Manner particularly directed by the faid laft recited A&t, and under the Penalty therein mentioned; and that the Justices of the Peace for the Counties aforesaid shall appoint Infpectors, with a certain Salary to each of them, and with certain Duties and Powers particularly pointed out by the faid laft recited Act; and that any Clothier or Maker of any fuch Cloth, or any Millman or other Perfon within the Counties aforefaid, fhall incur a Penalty for refufing Entrance to any fuch Infpector, and that any fuch Inspector, acting against his Oath fhall forfeit twenty Pounds; and that every Maker of mixed or medley Woollen Broad Cloth within the Counties aforefaid, fhali pay to the Inspector the Sum of Two-pence per Cloth for every fuch Cloth he shall make before the Cloths are fent away from the Mill; and the faid Inspector fhall pay the Money fo received into the Hands of the Treafurer of the County, to be applied towards the Salaries of Inspectors to be appointed by virtue of the faid laft recited A&; and that any Millman within the Counties aforefaid, fending Home to any Clothier or Maker of Cloth, any such Cloth or Cloths as aforefaid, before they are infpected and measured as aforefaid fhall for every Piece of Cloth fo fent Home forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings; and fo much of a certain other A&t paffed in the Fifth Year of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad for repealing feveral Laws relating to the Manufacture of Wollen Cloth in the County of York, and alfo fo much of feveral other Laws as preferibes particular Standards of Width and Length of fuch Woollen Cloths, and for fubflituting other Regulations of the Cloth Trade within the Weft Riding of the faid County, for preventing Frauds in certifying the Contents of the Cloth, and for preferving the Credit of the faid Manufacture at the Foreign Market, as directs that if any Perfon or Perfons within the faid Welt Riding of the fid County fhall ufe or caufe to be used in dreffing of Cloth any Cards made with Wire or with Teeth of Iron or any other Metal whatfoever, every fuch Perfon or Perfons fo ufing the same fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit Forty Shillings; fhail be and the fame are hereby repealed. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained fhall annul or make void any Contract of Apprenticeship whereby any Perfon fhall have bound or fhall bind himfelf as an Apprentice in any of the faid Crafts, Myfteries, or Occupations of the Woollen Manufacture, for any Period allowed by Law: Provided always, that fuch Apprenticeship fhall not be required as a previous Qualification for exercifing any Branch of the Woollen Manufacture, either as a Mafter or a Journeyman. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained fhall be conftrued to revive any A&t repealed by any of the Acts or Parts of Acts hereby repealed, but the same shall continue repealed as if this A&t had not been made. V. And whereas Perfons who have been educated and employed in the manufacturing Woollen Cloth have expreffed Apprehenfions, that in confequence of the Ufe of certain Machinery being allowed in the faid Manufactory, and of the Repeal of that Part of the • Statute have ferved to any Branch Statute of the Fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth which refpects Apprentices in the fame, the Employment of many of the faid Persons is likely to be diminished: And whereas in that Event many of them may be willing to employ themselves in fuch other Trades as they are or may become apt to follow and make ufe of for the getting their Living by their own Labour, but are or may be hindered from exercifing those Trades in certain Cities and Corporations and other Places within Great Britain, because of certain Bye-Laws and • Customs of those Places, or of the faid Statute made in the Fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth; for Remedy whereof,' Be it enacted, That all fuch Perfons who have ferved an Apprenticeship to any Perfons who -Branch of the Woollen Manufacture, or who are by Law entitled to use and exercise the fame, and alfo the Wives and Children of such Perfons, may fet up and exercife fuch Trade, or any other Trade or Bufinefs which they are apt and able for in any Town or Place within Great Britain, without any Let, Suit, or Moleftation of any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, for or by reafon of the ufing of fuch Trade: nor fhall any fuch Perfone, or their Wives or Children, during the Time they fhall exercife fuch Trader, be removeable from Trade in any fuch refpective Place or Places to his, her, or their laft legal Place Place in Great of Settlement, by virtue of any Law now in being relative to the Britain, &c. Settlement of the Poor, until fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall become actually chargeable to fuch Parish or Place; and if any fuch Perfon, or the Wife or Child of any fuch Perfon, fha I be fued; impleaded, or indicted in any Court whatfoever within this Kingdom, for ufing or exercifing any fuch Trade as aforefaid, then the said Perfon, or the Wife or Child of any fuch Perfon, making it appear to the fame Court where they are fo fued, impleaded, or indicted, that they have ferved a legal Apprenticeship to the faid Trade as aforefaid, or that he, fhe, or they, is or are the Wife or Wives, Child or Children, of fuch Perfou or Perfons who fhall have fo ferved a legal Apprenticeship as aforefaid, fhall upon the General Iffue pleaded be found Not Guilty in any Plaint, Bill, Information, or Indictment exhibited against them; and fuch Perions who, notwithitanding this Act, fhall profecute the faid Suit by Bill, Plaint, Information, or Indictment, and fhall have a Verdi pafs against him, or become nor fuit therein, or difcontinue their faid Suit, fuch Perfon or P.rfons fhall pay unto fuch Perfons who have ferved an Apprenticeship to, or who may be entitled to exercise any Branch of the Woollen Manufacture, or the Wife or Child of such Person respectively, Double Colts of Suits to be recovered as any other Cofts at Common Law may be recovered; and all Judges and Juries, before whom any fuch Suit, Information, or Indictment fhall be brought and all other Perfons whatsoever, are to take Notice of this prefent Act, and fhall conform themselves thereto, any Statute, Law, Ordinance, Cuftom, or Provifion to the contrary in any wife not. withstanding. VI. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for any Two or more Juftices of the Peace for the County, Town, or Place where any fuch Perfon, or his Wife or Child, fhall fet up and exercise any Trade as aforefaid, to caufe him or her to be fummoned before them in the Town or Place where he or she fhail fet up and exercise fuch Trade as aforefaid, in order to make Oath of the Place of his or her laft legal Settlement (which Oath the faid Justices are hereby empowered to adminifter), and fuch Perfon, or his Wife or Such Perfons may be fworn by Two Juftices as to the Pace of their laft Settlement. Copy of Oath may be tendered by Perfons fummoned a fecond Tine. Act shall not extend to Univer fities of Cambridge and Oxford: Nor to London. 49 G. 3. c. 32. The Duty of Sixpence under recited Act fhall be charged for every Twenty Shillings of the yearly Value of all Salaries, &c. Child, is hereby directed to obey fuch Summons, and to make Oath accordingly, and fuch Juftices are hereby required to give an attefted Copy of fuch Affidavit fo made before them, to the Perfon making the fame, in order that he or she may produce it when required, which attefted Copy fhall at any Time be admitted as Evidence as to fuch laft legal Settlement, before any of His Majefty's Justices of the Peace at any General or Quarter Seffions of the Peace. VII. Provided always, That in cafe any fuch Perfon or his Wife or Child fhall again be fummoned to make Oath as aforefaid, then on fuch attefted Copy of the Oath by him or her formerly taken being produced by him or her, or by any other Perfon on his Behalf, fuch Perfon or his Wife or Child fhall not be obliged to take any other or further Oath with regard to his or her legal Settlement, but shall leave a Copy of fuch attelted Copy of his or her Examination, if required. VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That this A& fhall not in any wife be prejudicial to the Privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, or either of them; or extend to give Liberty to any Perfon to fet up the Trade of a Vintner, or to fell any Wine or other Liquors within the faid Universities without Licence first had and obtained from the Vice Chancellor of the fame respectively. IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this A&t contained fhall extend or be conftrued to extend to the city of London, or to alter the Laws and Cuttoms relative to Apprentices in the faid City. САР. СХ. An Act to rectify a Mistake in an Act made in this Seffion fron from the Crown, which, before the paffing of the faid recited Act, were rated or affeffed in Manner therein mentioned, and for and upon all Penfions and Annuities charged upon the Revenue of Great Britain, over and above all other Duties before the paffing of the faid recited A&t charged and payable. CAP CXI. An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, an Act of the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majefty for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Publick Expenditure, and the Conduct of the Publick Bufinefs in the Military Departments therein [15th June 1809.] mentioned. "45 G. 3. c. 47. (laft continued by 48 G. 3. c. 61.) further continued "to 25 March 1811. An Act to amend an Act paffed in the Forty-fourth Year of Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act to enable 43 G. c. 55. His Majefly more effectually to provide for the Defence and Security of the Realm during the prefent War; and for indemnifying Perfons ho may fuffer in their Property, by fuch Meafures as may be neceffary for that Purpofe: And whereas another Act paffed in the Forty fourth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty intituled, An 44 G. 3. e. 95. A to amend certain of the Provisions of an A& made in the Fortythird Year of His prefent Majefly, to enable His Majefly to provide for the Defence and Security of the Realm, which refpect the Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments for the Publick Service: And whereas Difficulties have occurred in the giving of Notices, in Cafes where Perfons abfent, or Perfons claiming Rights of Common, are interested in Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, proposed to be taken under the faid laft recited A& for the Publick Service:' May it therefore please Your Majefty that it may be enactel; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in all Cafes where any Perfons who fhall In Cafes where be interested in any Lands, Tenements, an Hereditaments, propofed to be taken under the faid laft recited Act, fhall be abfent or cannot be found, and in all Cafes where the Intereft claimed by any Perfon or Perfons in any fuch Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, fhall confit of any Rights of Common thereon, it fhall be fufficient that the Notice of fuch Lands having been marked out for the Publick Service fhall be affixed upon the Church Door of the Parish wherein the faid Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments are fituated, Three fucceffive Sundays before Morning Service, and fhall be published in Three fucceeding Weeks, One Day in each Week, in fome Newfpaper Parties are abient or claim Doors: and if Parties do not agree in 14 ufually Days, Poffeffion fhall be given, or |