A, D. 1749* Anno vlceiimo fecundo Georgii II. C. 27. 149 c ' fence to the Parties refpeftively injured, for the Damage by them fuftained, fo as the fame do not exceed ' double the Value of the Gloves, Breeches, Leather, Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Wares, Goods or Materials, t by fucli Oil'ender or Offenders fo purloined or imbeziled, fecreted, fold, pawned or exchanged ; one half ( thereof to go to the Party or Parties grieved, and the other half to the Ufe of the Poor of the Parifli or Place where fuch Offence fliall be committed ; together with the full Charges attending fuch ConviiStion ; to be levied by Warrant under the Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals of fuch Juftice or Juftices by Di-
- flrefs and Sale of the Offenders Goods ; but if fuch Offender or Offenders fliall not have Goods fufficient
- to anfwer the Forfeitures and the Expences attending the Premiffes, and fhall alfo negleit or refufe im-
- mediately to pay the fame, that then the faid Offender or Offenders, fhall, by like Warrant of fuch Juf-
' tice or Juftices laft defcribed, be for every diftinft Offence committed to the Houfe of Corre£lion, or other
- publick Pj ifon of fuch County, Riding, City, Town or Place, and there kept to hard Labour for the
' Space of fourteen Days, and fnall be there likewife whipped in fuch Manner, as the faid Juftice or Juf- ' tices fhall order and direct; and in cafe alfo of a fubfequent Conviiffion for a fecond or any other fuch ' like Offence, that the Perfon or Perfons fo offending, for every fecond or other fubfequent Offence, fhall
- forfeit four Times the Value of the Damages which the Owner or Owners of fuch Materials, either be-
' fore or after the fame ihall be refpeiSively made up into Wares, fliall fuftain thereby, together with fucii ' Cofts of Frofecution as fhall be adjudged reafonable by the Juftice, before whom fuch Offender or Of- ' fenders fliall be refpeflively convicted ; and in cafe immediate Payment of the refpe£five Forfeitures, to- ' sether with fuch Cofts of Profecution as aforefaid, fhall be neglected or refuled to be made, that then it
- fnall and may be lawful to and for fuch Juftice to commit the Offender or Offenders laft defcribed to the
- Houfe of Correction, or other publick Prifon, to be there kept to hard Labour, for any Time not exceed-
- ing three Months, nor lefs than one Month, as to fuch Juftice fhall feem reafonable ; and alfo, during the
' Time of fuch Commitment, fhall caufe the faid Offender or Offenders to be publickly whipped in the ' Market Town where fuch Offender or Offenders fhall be refpeftively committed, at the R-Iaiket Place ' or Crofs of fuch Town, once or oftener, as to fuch Juftice fliall feem reafonable : And it is by the faid ' A(£f of the thirteenth Year of his prelisnt Majefty's Reign alfo further enafted, That every Perfon and ' Perlons who fhall knowingly or willingly buy or receive, accept or take, by way of Pawn, Pledge, Sale,
- or in any other Manner, of or from any of the Perfons offending in either of the Particulars laft-mentioned,
' or of or from any other Perfon or Perfons whatfoever (except of or from the Perfon or Perfons in v>'hom ' the Property of fuch Gloves, Breeches, Leather, Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Wares, Goods or other Mate- ' rials, fliall be at the lime of ilich Sale, Pawn or Exchange) or cffer fo to do, fuch Perfon or Perfons of- ' fending therein refpeftively, fliall, for every Offence, being convi£ted thereof in Manner before prefcribed ' by the laid laft mentioned A£t, make fuch fuitable and reafonable Recompence and SatisfacStion, within ' two Days next after the Matter of Faft fhall be determined by any one or more Juftice or Juftices as
- aforefaid, upon hearing the fame, or elfe be fubjedf to fuch Diftrefs ; and for want of fufficient Diftrefs,
' to be liable to the like Punifliment as is by the faid Aft direded to be inflifted on fuch Perfon or Perfons
- as fhall purloin, imbezil, fecrete, fell, pawn or exchange any Gloves, Breeches, Leather, Boots, Shoes,
- Slippers, Wares, Goods or other R^aterials or Effefts of that Sort as aforefaid, and fo in like Manner for
' any Second, and everyother fubfequent Offence: And whereas the Penalties and Forfeitures to which
- OiTenders againft the faid Ads are fubjedcd, have not been fufficient to deter Perfons from committing
' the Offences thereby intended to be prevented : And whereas many Perfons employed in the making of ' Felts or Hats, and in preparing or working up the R-Ianufaflures of Furr, Hemp, Flax, Mohair and Silk, ' and alfo the Manufa£lures made of Wooll,. Furr, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, Cottcn or Silk, or fome of them ' mixed one with another, have of late been guilty of divers Frauds and Abufes, by purloining, imbezil-
- ling, fecreting, felling, pawning, exchanging or otherv-'ife unlawfully difpofmg of the Materials with
' which they have been entrufted ; and it is therefore become neceflary to make Provifion for preventing ' fuch Offences for the future :' Therefore for amending and rendering more effeftual the faid Aft made in the thirteenth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, and for extending the Provifions and Regulations therein and herein made, to the feveral Rianufaftures h; rein before mentioned. Re it enafted by "the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by -and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this prefent Parliament afl'embled, and by the Authority of the fame, lliat if any Perfon or Per- Perfons errploy- fons whatfoever, who fliall be hired or employed to make any P"elt or Flat, or to prepare or work up any ^^'" '•^'^ IWanu- Wooilcn, Linnen, Fuftian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Furr, Hemp, Flax, Mohair or Silk Manufaftures, or f'*","'^^"'" any Manufaftures made up of Wooll, Furr, Hemp, Flax, Cotton, Mohair or Silk, or of any of the faid ^X^^d onm™"-' ^'Materials mixed one with another, fliall, from and after the twenty- fourth Day of June one thoufand fe- ziiling, & ' ven hundred and forty-nine, purloin, imbezil, fecreie, iell, pawn, exchange or otherwife unlawfully dif-oftheMa pofe of any of the Materials, with which he, flie or they fliall be refpeftively entrufted, whether the fam.e, or any Part thereof, be or be not firft wrought, made up, manufaftured or converted into merchantable Wares, or fliall reel Falfe or Short Yarn, and fliall be thereof lawully convifted, by the Oaih or (if the or of reeling Owner thereof be of the People called Quakers ) folemn Affirmation of the Owner of fuch Goods or Ma- Faife or Short terials, or by the Oath or Affirmation of any other credible Witnefs or V/itneffes, or by the Confeffion of ^" the Perfon or Perfons charged with iuch Offence, before any one or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace of County, PJding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town or Place, where fuch Offence fliall be committed, or where the Perfon or Perfons fo charged fliall reflde or inhabit (which Oath or AfHrmation the faid Juftice or Juftices is and are hereby impowered and required to adminifterj it fliall and may be lawful to and for the faid Juftice or Juftices, by V/arrant under his or their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, to commit tobecommititi, the Perfon or Perfons fo convifted to the Houfe of Correftion, or other publick Prifon of fuch County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town or Place, there to be kept to hard Labour for the Space of fourteen ■ .Days, and alfo to order the Perfon or Perfons fo convifted to be once publickly whipped at the Market and ruMlclcly Place, or fome other publick Place of the City, 'Fown or Place where fuch Offender or Offenders fiial! be vvhirp^d. refpeftively 7 aLenais.
