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which the Payments shall be

made to Persous employed in execution of this Act in England.

of Payments

where more

than One Parish in a District.

hundred and fifty-one, if Parliament be sitting, or, if Parliament be not sitting, then within the first Fourteen Days of the Session then next ensuing.

XIX. And be it enacted, That the Guardians of the Poor, or, where there are no such Guardians, the Overseers of the Poor in every Superintendent Registrar's District in England, shall pay to such Superintendent Registrar, out of the Monies in their Hands as such Guardians or Overseers, the whole Amount of the Allowances to which the said Superintendent Registrar, and the Registrars, Enumerators, and other Persons in that District, are severally entitled, according to the said Table; and each Superintendent Registrar shall pay over to the Registrars in his District the Allowances to which the said Registrars, Enumerators, and other Persons are entitled; and each Registrar shall pay over to the Enumerators and other Persons in his District the Allowances to which they are severally entitled, according to the said Table; and the Receipts to be given by the Enumerators and other Persons, Registrars, and Superintendent Registrars, for Payment of their said Allowances, shall be delivered to the Guardians or Apportionment Overseers, as the Case may be; and where the District of any Superintendent Registrar, Registrar, or Enumerator contains more than One Parish or Place, or Parts of more than One Parish or Place, the Guardians established under the said Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales, or, if there be no such Guardians, the Superintendent Registrar, shall apportion the whole Sum so paid or to be paid on account of that District among the several Parishes and Places of which any Part is within such District, in such Manner as to them or him shall seem just; and such Apportionment shall be binding upon all Persons, and the Payment thereof shall be allowed in the Accounts of the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor of the said several Parishes and Places; and in every extra-parochial or other Place not having Overseers of the Poor the Persons appointed to collect the County or Borough Rates therein shall be deemed Overseers of the Poor within the Meaning of this Act, and shall pay the Amount charged to the Account of such Place under the Provisions of this Act to the Guardians of the Union in which such Place is situated, or, if it be not situated in any Union, to the Superintendent Registrar, out of the next Monies in their Hands collected for the County or Borough Rate within such Place, and shall be allowed such Payment in their Accounts; and if there be any extra-parochial Place in which no County or Borough Rate, or Rate in the Nature of a County Rate, is collected, the Treasurer of the County, Riding, or Division, or Borough, shall pay the Amount charged to the Account of such Place out of the Monies in his Hands as such Treasurer, and shall be allowed such Payment in his Account: Provided always, that no such Payment shall be made to any Enumerator or other Person who shall be required to act as an Enumerator under this Act, but upon Production of a Certificate under the Hand of the Registrar that the Duties required of such Enumerator or other Person acting as Enumerator by this Act have been faithfully performed, and the like Certificate shall be required under the Hand of the Superintendent Registrar with respect to the Regis

As to extraparochial Places.

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trar before any Payment shall be made to the Registrar, and the like Certificate under the Hand of the said Registrar General with respect to the Superintendent Registrar before any Payment shall be made to the Superintendent Registrar.

XX. And be it enacted, That the Superintendent Registrar of Payments to be every District in England shall within Ône Calendar Month next certified to the Registrar after any such Payment shall have been made as aforesaid certify General. to the said Registrar General the total Amount of the Allowances to which he, and the Registrars, Enumerators, and other Persons in that District, are respectively entitled, according to the said Table.

XXI. And be it enacted, That all Allowances defrayed as aforesaid by any Parish or Place, or by the Guardians or Överseers on behalf thereof, or by the Treasurer of any County, Riding, Division, or Borough, shall be reimbursed to such Parish, Place, or Treasurer by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, out of such Monies as shall be provided by Parliament for that Purpose.

Parishes, &c.

to be reim

bursed by

Parliament.

in Scotland.

XXII. And be it enacted, That the Sheriffs and Provosts or Payments to be other Chief Magistrates of the Royal and Parliamentary Burghs, made to Persons in Scotland, shall allow to the Sheriff Clerk or Town Clerk respectively, for the Return which shall be made and transmitted from every Parish or Place in Scotland, the Sum of One Shilling, and to the Sheriff Officer or Town Officer who shall distribute the Schedule to the Schoolmasters and others, for the like, the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence; and the said Sheriffs and Provosts or other Chief Magistrates of the Royal Burghs and other Burghs in Scotland, herein specified, shall allow to the Schoolmasters and others a reasonable Compensation for the Trouble by them necessarily taken, and also for the Expenses (if any) by them necessarily incurred in the Execution of this Act, and shall order Payment thereof, and also of the Sums respectively payable to the Sheriff' Clerk or Town Clerk, and to the Sheriff Officer or Town Officer, to be made by the Collector of the Land Tax of and for the Shire or other Place (as the Case shall require), out of any Money in his Hands, and such Collector shall pay the same accordingly.

XXIII. And be it enacted, That every Superintendent Registrar Penalty for and Registrar, and every Enumerator and other Person who shall wilful Default. be required to act as Enumerator, in England, and also every Schoolmaster or other Person in Scotland, so appointed as aforesaid, making wilful Default in any of the Matters required of them respectively by this Act, or making any wilfully false Declaration, shall for every such wilful Default or false Declaration forfeit a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Two Pounds. XXIV. And be it enacted, for the better enabling the said Penalty for reSecretary of State, Registrar General, Enumerators, Schoolmasters, mation or giving fusing Infor and other Persons employed in the Execution of this Act, to make false Answers. the said Inquiries and Returns, That the said Enumerators, Schoolmasters, and other Persons shall be authorized to ask all such Questions as shall be directed in any Instructions to be prepared by or under the Direction of the said Secretary of State, which shall be necessary for obtaining the Returns required by this Act; and every Person refusing to answer or wilfully giving a false Answer to such Questions or any of them shall for every such

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Refusal or wilfully false Answer forfeit a Sum not exceeding
Five Pounds nor less than Twenty Shillings.

XXV. And be it enacted, That Forfeitures imposed by this Act for Offences in England shall be recovered in a summary Manner before Two Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction in the County or Place where the Offence is committed, in the Manner prescribed by Law in this Behalf; and Forfeitures imposed by this Act for Offences in Scotland may be recovered before the Sheriff or Two Justices, who may proceed in a summary Way, and grant Warrant for bringing the Parties complained upon immediately before him or them, and on Proof on Oath by Öne or more credible Witness or Witnesses, or other legal Evidence, he or they may forthwith determine and give Judgment, without any written Pleadings or Record of Evidence, and grant Warrant for the Recovery of the Penalties and Expenses decerned for, and, failing Payment within Eight Days after Conviction, by Poinding and Imprisonment for a Period, at the Discretion of the Sheriff or Justices, not exceeding Fourteen Days; and Forfeitures recovered in England under this Act shall be paid, one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to the Treasurer of the County or Place for which the Justices before whom the Forfeiture is recovered shall have acted, and Forfeitures recovered in Scotland under this Act shall be paid, one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to the Collector of the Land Tax of such County wherein the Offence shall be committed, to be by him applied in aid of the Expenditure incurred by reason of this Act.

XXVI. And be it enacted and declared, for Explanation of the full Intent and Meaning of certain Words used in this Act, That the Words "Parish or Place, Parishes or Places," shall include the various Denominations of Townships, Tithings, Hamlets, Villages, Chapelries, Quarters, Wards, Parcels, Lordships, Manors, or Parts of any Parish, and all other Places, whether denominated Vills, Precincts, or otherwise, and whether connected with any Parish or deemed to be extra-parochial.

XXVII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parlia

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3 & 1 W. 4. c. 193.

7 & 8 Vict. c.15.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to Labour in Factories.
[5th August 1850.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate
the Labour of Children and young Persons in the Mills and
• Factories of the United Kingdom, it was enacted, that no Person
under the Age of Eighteen Years should be employed in any Mill
or Factory as in the said Act mentioned, in any such Description
of Work as therein specified, more than Twelve Hours in any
'One Day, except as therein-after provided: And whereas by an
Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Labour
in Factories, it was enacted, that the Hours of Work of Children
and young Persons in every Factory should be reckoned from the
• Time

• Time when any Child or young Person should first begin to work in the Morning in such Factory; and by the same Act it was ⚫ enacted, that no Female above the Age of Eighteen Years should ⚫ be employed in any Factory, save for the same Time and in the • same Manner as young Persons might be employed in Factories : • And whereas by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to limit the Hours of 10 & 11 Vict. Labour of young Persons and Females in Factories, the Hours of c. 29. • Labour of young Persons and Females in Factories were further • restricted as therein is mentioned: And whereas it is expedient ⚫ to amend the said herein-before recited Acts:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, save as herein-after mentioned, so No young Permuch of the said Acts as restricts or limits the Hours of the son or Female Employment or Labour of young Persons and of Females above to be employed the Age of Eighteen Years, shall be repealed, and after the pass ing of this Act no young Person, and no Female above the Age of Eighteen Years, shall be employed in any Factory before Six of the Afternoon, or Clock in the Morning or after Six of the Clock in the Evening of on Saturdays any Day (save to recover lost Time, as herein-after provided), and after Two in no young Person, and no Female above the Age of Eighteen Years, shall be employed in any Factory, either to recover lost Time or for any other Purpose, on any Saturday after Two of the Clock

in the Afternoon.

before Six in

the Morning or after Six in the

the Afternoon.

II. And be it enacted, That so much of the said secondly-recited Provision of Act as requires Notice in the Form given in the Schedule (C.) to 7&8 Vict. c. 15. such Act of the Hours of Work of all young Persons, and Females tices of Times requiring No. above the Age of Eighteen Years, employed in the Factory, to of beginning be hung or fixed up in any Factory, and so much of the same and ending Act as enacts that in any Complaint of the Employment of any Work to be Person in a Factory otherwise than is allowed by that Act the hung up, reTime of beginning Work in the Morning which shall be stated in pealed. any Notice fixed up in the Factory, signed by the Occupier or his Agent, shall be taken to be the Time when all Persons in the Factory, except Children beginning to work in the Afternoon, began Work on any Day subsequent to the Date of such Notice, so long as the same continued fixed up in the Factory, shall be repealed.

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III. And whereas by the said secondly recited Act it was Meal Times to enacted, that the Times allowed for Meal Times, as provided be taken beby the said firstly-recited Act, should be taken between the tween Half past Seven in Hours of Half past Seven in the Morning and Half past Seven the Morning in the Evening: Be it enacted, That the Times allowed for such and Six in the Meal Times as aforesaid shall be taken between the Hours of Half Evening. past Seven in the Morning and Six in the Evening; and, subject to such Alteration as aforesaid, all the Provisions of the said firstly and secondly recited Acts concerning Meal Times and Notice of Meal Times shall remain applicable to all young Persons, and to all Females above the Age of Eighteen Years, employed in any Factory.

IV. And

Young Persons

or Females not to be employed under 7 & 8 Vict.

c. 15. in recovering lost Time after Seven in the Evening.

Time during which young Persons and Females may be employed under 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15. s. 34. in recovering lost Time.

Power to employ young Persons from Seven in the Morning to Seven in the

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IV. And whereas by the said secondly-recited Act it was ' enacted, that in any Factory in which any Part of the Machinery was moved by the Power of Water the Time which should have been lost by Stoppages from Want of Water, or from too much 'Water, might be recovered within Six Months next after the Stoppage, between the Hours specified in the said firstly-recited Act as those within which Time lost by Drought or Excess of 'Water might be recovered, and that in order to recover Time so 'lost any Child or young Person might be employed One Hour in each Day more than the Time to which the ordinary Labour ' of Children and young Persons respectively was restricted by Law, except on Saturday:' Be it enacted, That no young Person, and no Female above the Age of Eighteen Years, shall, in order to recover Time so lost as aforesaid, be employed after Seven of the Clock in the Evening of any Day; and the Times before Six of the Clock in the Morning and after Six of the Clock in the Evening during which any such young Person or Female is so employed in any Day shall not together exceed One Hour.

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V. And whereas by the said secondly-recited Act it was ' enacted, that in any Factory in which any Part of the Machinery was moved by the Power of Water, when the Stream was so diminished by Drought or swollen by Flood during any Part of the Day that any Part of the manufacturing Machinery driven by the Water-wheel had been stopped by reason of such Drought or Flood, the young Persons who would have been employed at 'such Machinery might recover such lost Time during the Night 'next following the said Day, unless the said Day were Satur'day; provided that no such young Person should be employed during any Twenty-four consecutive Hours for a greater Number of Hours than that to which the ordinary daily Labour of such young Persons in Factories was otherwise restricted by Law, and that no young Person so employed in the Night should work more than Five Hours without an entire Cessation from Work of at least Thirty Minutes' Be it enacted, That for the Purposes of the last-recited Enactment the Word "Night" shall include the whole Period between Six of the Clock in the Evening and Six of the Clock in the Morning; and no young Person, and no Female above the Age of Eighteen Years, shall be employed to recover such lost Time as last aforesaid during any Twenty-four consecutive Hours for more than Ten Hours and Half of another Hour; and, save as herein before mentioned, young Persons and Females may be employed to recover lost Time according to the Provisions of the said secondly-recited Act.

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VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That during all or Part of the Period between the Thirtieth Day of September of any Year and the First Day of April of the following Year, young Persons, and Females above the Age of Eighteen Years, may be employed, except on Saturday, between the Hours of Seven of the Clock Evening from of the Morning and Seven of the Clock of the Evening, instead 30th Sept. to of the Hours herein-before limited, under the following Regula 1st April, under tions and Conditions; (that is to say,) Notice signed by the certain Regula- Occupier of any Factory, or his Agent, of the Intention to employ young Persons and Females under this Provision, specifying the

tions.

Period,

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