in the mer fal, profecu tion to cease. fum of money, not exceeding the fum of forty fhillings, nor less than twenty fhillings, as to the justice or justices, before whom he fhall be convicted, fhall feem proper and requifite. Perfons charg. XII. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons, ed with any against whom any information fhall be made, by any merchant, offence, may buyer, feller, owner, or dreffer of cloth, for any offence or ofexamine cloth fences committed against this act, by falfe fealing or stamping chants bands; any cloth or cloths, fhall and may, and are hereby authorized and on refu- and impowered, within two days after notice of fuch information to him or them given, to go to the houfe of fuch merchant, owner, or dreffer of cloth, in fuch information mentioned, and request to see the said cloth, to examine whether the charge alledged in fuch information be juft, and whether any frauds have been committed by the merchant, dreffer, or owner, of the fame; and that upon the merchant, dreffer, buyer, or owner, of fuch cloth, refufing to permit and suffer fuch offender or offenders to fee or examine fuch cloth as aforefaid, (unless the fame fhall, before that time, be put in papers for preffing, or fent to be frized) fuch profecution fo commenced against fuch ' offender or offenders fhall cease, and any conviction to be made thereupon shall be void and of none effect; and in case of wilful refufal, by any merchant or buyer, fo to fhew fuch cloth, fuch merchant or buyer fhall lofe all benefit of deduction out of the price of fuch cloth as aforefaid. XIII. And whereas by the faid act of the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, every clothier and maker of fuch cloth as aforefaid, is required, at the time of making thereof, to weave or sew into the head of the cloth, in diftinct letters or words, plain to be read, at length, the name and place of abode of fuch clothier and maker, under the penalty of twenty fillings for expofing the fame to fale, without having fuch name and place of abode in words at length fewed into fuch cloth, which has been the occafion of feveral poor clothiers being convicted for false spelling or abbreviating their name and place of abode, to their great lofs and difcouragement; wherefore, to prevent as much as poffible any fuch hard and fevere prosecutions which fuch clothier is now fubject to, be it further enacted, Makers of That every clothier and maker of fuch cloth as aforefaid, who cloth to weave fhall weave or few into the head of every cloth, and end of cloth, his name and place of abode, either in dictinct letters or words, or in fome common or known usual abbreviation, fufficient to be read or understood, before he shall expose the abbreviation. fame to fale, fhall in fuch cafe not be subject to or liable to be profecuted for the penalty inflicted by the faid act for not inferting the fame in diftinct letters or words plain to be read at length; any thing in the faid act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. their names therein at length, or in a common XIV. And whereas by the faid last mentioned act of the fifth year of the reign of hisprefent Majefty, the juftices of the peace for the faid weft riding are impowered, at their general quarter feffions of the peace to be held yearly after Eafter, to make and issue fuch orders and directions to the feveral officers to be appointed by virtue of the said act, for the more effectual execution thereof, as to them shall feem meet; which power is apprehended to be of no use to the faid trade or manufacture, but may prove inconvenient to the dealers therein; by former act Power given therefore be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid to juftices at power given by the faid act, to the justices in feflions, to make quarter feffuch orders and regulations as aforefaid, fhall from henceforth fions to make be, and the fame is hereby, revoked and repealed, and declared orders for to be void and of no force or effect. executing the act repealed. XV. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any person or Penalty on perfons whatsoever, after the twenty fourth day of June, one over-ftretchthousand seven hundred and fixty fix, fhall ftretch or ftrain, or ing or train ing cloth. caufe or procure to be stretched or ftrained, any whole or long cloth, or end or half cloth, more than one yard (confifting of -thirty feven inches) in every twenty yards of the length thereof, and in the like proportion for cloths of greater or lefs length, or more than one inch in every twelve inches of the breadth thereof, above or beyond the length or breadth of such cloth marked and denoted upon the stamp or feal thereon fixed by the fearcher, measurer, fupervisor, or infpector, who last meafured the fame as aforefaid; then, and in fuch cafe, every perfon so offending, and being thereof convicted by the oath of one or more credible witness or witneffes, before one or more fuch justice or justices of the peace of the said riding, or of some corporation within the fame, not being a dealer in the woollen manufacture, or farmers or occupiers of a fulling-mill as aforefaid, fhall, for the first half yard in length fuch cloth, or end of cloth, fhall be so over-ftretched, forfeit and pay the fum of five fhillings; and alfo for every quarter of a yard above fuch half yard, ten fhillings; and for the first inch in breadth such cloth, or end of cloth, thall be overstretched or ftrained, forfeit and pay the fum of five fhillings; and alfo for every inch above the first inch ten fhillings; which faid fums fhall be recovered and applied in the fame manner as the other penalties are herein directed to be recovered and applied. 2 the tenters XVI. And whereas by the last mentioned act, the ufing of cards Hatters cards made with wire, or with wire teeth, or any other metal, in dreffing may he used of cloth, is prohibited under the penalty of forty fillings; but it has for striking been found useful in the dreffing of cloth, and without damaging the cloths upon fame, to make use of wire cards, commonly called fine hatters cards, only. in the firiking or plaining of cloth upon the tenters, for the better bedding or laying the wool; it is therefore enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for any person or perfons in the striking or plaining of cloth upon the tenters only, to make use of such cards, called fine hatters cards, for the better laying the wool, and manufacturing the faid cloth, without being fubject to, or liable to, any prosecution for the faid penalty, in the said act provided, for making ufe of wire cards in the dreffing of cloth. XVII. And it is hereby further enacted, provided, and de- Officers not to clared, That in cafe any of the officers to be appointed, or who keep a publick thall hold, exercife, or enjoy, any office or place under or by houfe, or be virtue of this or the faid former act, thall keep a publick houfe concerned in E 2. the cloth for trade. Appointment of officers to be made at quarter felfions. How and cuted, and forfeitures applied. for the felling of ale, beer, or other liquors, or shall follow or be concerned in the making, buying, or felling, any wool, woollen manufactures, or goods, commonly made ufe of in dying; or in cafe any fuch officer or officers, person or persons, to be appointed by virtue of this or the said former act, fhall be guilty of any misbehaviour or neglect of duty in his office, and fhall be thereof convicted by the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, before any two or more fuch juftices as aforefaid; it fhall and may be lawful to and for the juftices, at the quarter feffions held for the faid riding next after fuch conviction, on producing the fame, or due proof thereof, and they are hereby required to discharge and remove fuch officer or perfon, fo convicted, from his office, and to appoint another proper perfon in his room and ftead; and fuch perfon or persons fo convicted and removed from his office for fuch offence, fhall be, from thenceforth, for ever difabled to hold, 'exercise, or enjoy, any office under or by virtue of this or the faid former act. XVIII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That the appointment of all and every officers by the justices of the peace for the faid weft riding, by the faid recited act directed to be made at the quarter feffions held next after Eafter yearly for the faid riding, fhall, at all times hereafter, be made by the faid juftices at the quarter feffions held for the said riding at Bradford, next after Midfummer yearly. XIX. And it is hereby further enacted, That all informations when offences relating to any offences to be committed against this or the faid fhall be profe- former act (except where it is otherwife therein respectively provided for) fhall be made and given within ten days after fuch offence fhall be difcovered; and all and every fuch offences fhall be enquired of and determined, and convictions thereon made, upon oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, by any one or more fuch juftice or juftices of the peace as aforefaid (not being a dealer in woollen cloth, nor occupier of any fulling-mill as aforefaid) notice being first given of the charge to the perfon or perfons therewith charged; and that all such penalties and forfeitures as fhall or may happen by reason of this or the faid former act, fhall, after deducting the charges of fuch conviction, go, and be difpofed of, one half to the perfon or perfons who fhall give information of the offence on which the conviction fhall be made, and the other half to the faid treasurer of the said weft riding; and that fuch part thereof as fhall belong to the faid treasurer, fhall be received by fuch justice or justices before whom fuch conviction fhall be made, and by him or them immediately paid to fome inspector or supervisor of broad woollen cloth; and the receipt of fuch inspector or fupervisor shall be a fufficient difcharge to fuch justice or justices, for fo much money as fhall be therein expreffed to be received; and fuch juftice or juftices fhall alfo, within three months after any fuch convictions, as aforefaid, fhall be made by them, fend, or cause to be fent, an account thereof to the said treasurer, and to whom fuch penalties and forfeitures thall be fo paid..... Juftices to fend an ac count of con victions before them to the treasurer. XX, And to be recover ed. XX. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any offender Penalties how or offenders shall, for the space of ten days next after he, she, or they, shall be convicted of any of the offences aforefaid, and have notice thereof to him, her, or them given, at his, her, or their dwelling-houle, or laft place of abode, refuse or neglect to pay any forfeiture by him, her, or them incurred, by reafon of this or the faid recited act, or fhall not give notice of an apfeal to the next quarter feffions, as is herein after provided; then, and not before, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the justice or justices of the peace, before whom fuch conviction fhall be made, or any other juftice or juftices of the peace for the faid riding, or any corporation within the fame (not being a dealer in woollen broad cloth, or occupier of any fulling-mill) upon a certificate of fuch conviction sent to him or them, from the justice or justices before whom such conviction was made; and he or they is and are hereby authorized and required to iffue out one or more warrant or warrants, under his or their hand and feal, or hands and feals, to the constable of the town or place, or bailiff or bailiffs of the liberties, wapentakes, or limits, where fuch offender or offenders doth or fhall inhabit, thereby commanding him or them to levy the fame by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, returning the overplus (if any be) after paying likewife the charges of fuch diftrefs and fale to the offender or offenders demanding the fame; and where no fufficient diftrefs can be found, to commit the offender or offenders to the houfe of correction, for any time not exceeding three calendar months. fions. XXI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by Perfons agthe authority aforefaid, "That if any perfon or perfons fhall find grieved may him, her, or themselves aggrieved, by any order, warrant, or appeal to the determination, made by any juftice or juftices, upon any infor- quarter fefmation by him or them, in purfuance of this act, fuch perfon or perfons may appeal to the next quarter feffions to be held for the weft riding of the county of York, where fuch determination fhall be made, which shall not be held within fourteen days next after the cause of appeal shall arife, giving ten days notice of appeal to the party in whofe favour fuch: order or determination fhall be made; and if the juftices at the faid quarter feffions, either confirm or difannul the orders or proceedings of the faid justice or justices, they fhall allow fuch cofts and charges to the party aggrieved thereby, as they fhall think reafonable, to be levied and paid in fuch manner as is ufual in cafes of appeal from any order of the juftices of the peace to the feffions, whofe order herein shall be final. victions, and XXII. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, That Juftices, &e. the feveral juftices of the peace before whom any conviction to return acshall be made, by virtue of this act, as alfo the feveral infpectors counts of conand fupervisors fo to be appointed as aforefaid, fhall, and they money receivare hereby required, at the four general quarter feffions of the ed thereon, to peace, held in and for the faid riding, to return and tranfmit the quarter to the juftices of the peace affembled at fuch general quarter feffions. E 3 feffions, Penalty on their neglect, &c, feffions, a true and perfect account in writing, of all the con- Application of money in the treasurer's hands. XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That this act, and all the penalties and clauses therein contained, fhall extend to all woollen cloths which shall be made and milled within the weft riding of the county of York, except fuch narrow woollen cloths as are mentioned and defcribed, and for which provifion is made in and by an act made in the eleventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the better regulating of narrow woollen cloths in the weft riding of the county of York; and alfo except fuch woollen goods as are made for blankets or blanketing, and striped duffel'd blankets. XXIV. And whereas feveral fums of money bave been, and will be expended by divers perfons, in and about the obtaining this present alt; and it is apprehended that the money expended in obtaining the faid former act, hath not yet been wholly reimbursed or fatisfied to the perfon or perfons concerned in obtaining the fame: now it is hereby enacted, That the treafurer of the faid weft riding for the time being, fhall, out of the money now in his hands, or which fhall hereafter be received by him, on account of the duties and forfeitures herein before, or by the faid former act, directed to be paid to fuch treasurer as aforefaid, firft pay the charges and expences remaining due and unpaid on the account of obtaining the faid former act, and afterwards the charges and expences of obtaining the paffing this act, together with fuch intereft, for all |