prentice fhall, at any time or times thereafter, whenever he expiration of thall be found, be compelled to serve his faid mafter for fo long his apprena time as he shall have fo abfented himself from fuch fervice, ferve for fuch ticeship, to unless he shall make fatisfaction to his mafter for the lofs he term as he fhall have fuftained by his abfence from his fervice; and fo, fhall abfent, from time to time, as often as any fuch apprentice fhall, without leave of his master, absent himself from his fervice before the term of his contract fhall be fulfilled and in cafe any fuch or to make apprentice fhall refufe to ferve as hereby required, or to make fatisfaction; fuch fatisfaction to his mafter, fuch mafter may complain, upon oath, to any juftice of the peace of the county or place where he fhall refide, which oath fuch juftice is hereby impowered to administer, and to iffue a warrant under his hand and feal for apprehending any fuch apprentice; and fuch juftice, upon hearing the complaint, may determine what fatisfaction fhall be made to fuch mafter by fuch apprentice; and in cafe fuch apprentice fhall not give fecurity to make fuch fatisfaction according to fuch determination, it fhall and may be lawful for fuch justice to commit every fuch apprentice to the houfe of correction for any time not exceeding three months.

II. Provided always, That nothing in this act contained fhall except as to extend to any apprentice, whofe mafter fhall have received with apprentices fuch apprentice the fum of ten pounds.

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III. Provided alfo, That no apprentice fhall be compelled to ferve for any time or term, or to make any fatisfaction to any or where 7 mafter, after the expiration of feven years next after the end of have elapfed. the term for which fuch apprentice fhall have contracted to ferve; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. And whereas it frequently happens that artificers, callicoe printers, handicrafifmen, miners, colliers, keelmen, pitmen, glafmen, potters, labourers, and others, who contract with perfons for certain terms, do leave their respective fervices before the terms of their contracts are fulfilled; to the great disappointment and lofs of the perfans with whom they fo contract: for remedy whereof, be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after Justices imthe faid twenty fourth day of June, one thousand feven hun- powered to dred and fixty fix, if any artificer, callicoe printer, handicrafts- grant warman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glaffman, potter, la- artificers and rants against bourer, or other perfon, fhall contract with any perfon whom- others not fulfoever for any time or term whatsoever, and thall abfent him- filling their felf from his fervice before the term of his contract fhall be contract, or being guilty compleated, or be guilty of any other mifdemeanor, that then, of any mildeand in every fuch cafe, it fhall and may be lawful for any juftice meanor. of the peace of the county or place where any fuch artificer, callicoe printer, handicraftsman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glaffman, potter, labourer, or other perfon, shall be found, and fuch juftice is hereby authorized and impowered, upon complaint thereof made upon oath to him by the perfon with whom fuch artificer, callicoe printer, handicraftfman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glassman, potter, labourer, or

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other perfon, fhall have fo contracted, or by his or her steward or agent, which oath fuch juftice is hereby impowered to adminifter, to iffue his warrant for the apprehending every fuch artificer, callicoe printer, handicraftfman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glassman, potter, labourer, or other perfon, and to examine into the nature of the complaint; and if it shall appear to fuch justice that any fuch artificer, callicoe printer, handicraftsman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glaffman, potter, labourer, or other perfon, fhall not have fulfilled fuch contract, or hath been guilty of any mifdemeanor, it fhall and may be Jawful for fuch juftice to commit every fuch person to the house of correction for the county or place where fuch justices shall refide, for any time not exceeding three months, nor less than one month.

V. Provided always, That if any person shall think himself grieved by the aggrieved by fuch determination, order, or warrant, of any order of a ju- juftice of the peace as aforefaid, except an order of commitftice (except ment, every fuch perfon may appeal to the next general quarter feffions of the peace to be held for the county or place where fuch determination or order fhall be made; fuch person giving may appeal; fix days notice of his intention of bringing fuch appeal, and of giving notice the cause and matter thereof, to fuch juftice of the peace and to the juftice, the parties concerned, and entering into a recognizance within and entering three days after fuch notice, before fome juftice of the peace for zance, &c. fuch county or place, with fufficient furety, conditioned to try fuch appeal at, and abide the order or judgement of, and pay fuch costs as fhall be awarded by, the juftices at fuch quarter Juftices at the feffions; which faid juftices, at their faid feffions, upon due quarter fefproof of fuch notice being given, and of entering into fuch refions impow- cognizance as aforefaid, thall and are hereby directed to proceed ered to deter- in, hear, and determine, the caufes and matters of all fuch apmine the ap- peals; and shall give fuch relief and cofts to the parties appealing or appealed againit, as they, in their difcretion, fhall judge proper and reasonable; and their judgements and orders therein shall be final and conclufive to all parties concerned.

peal,

and award cofts.

Limitation of this act with respect to the ftannaries,

and city of London.

Preamble reciting acts

VI. Provided also, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to the stannaries in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, or to impeach or leffen the jurifdiction of the chamberlain of the city of London, or of any other court within the faid city, touching apprentices.

CAP. XXVI.

An act for the better paving, cleansing, and enlightening, the city of London, and the liberties thereof; and for preventing obftructions and annoyances within the fame; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

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HEREAS the feveral streets, lanes, fquares, yards, courts, alleys, paffages, and places, within the city of London and liberties thereof, are in general ill paved and cleansed, and not duly enlightened; and are alfo greatly abftructed by pofts, and an

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noyed by figns, Spouts, and gutters, projecting into and over the fame; whereby, and by fundry other encroachments and annoyances, they are rendered incommodious, and, in some parts, dangerous, not only to the inhabitants, but to all others paffing through the fame, or reforting thereto: and whereas by an act of parliament paffed in the twenty fecond and twenty third years of the reign of the late King Charles 22 & 23 Car. 2. the Second, intituled, An act for the better paving and cleansing the streets and fewers in and about the city of London, the fole power and authority of ordering, defigning, and regulating, the cleanfing, and keeping clean, of all the fireets, lanes, and passages, within the faid city and liberties, and the pitching and paving, with the order and manner thereof, were vested in the mayor, commonalty, and citizens, of the faid city, to be managed, executed, and done, by fuch perfons as the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the faid city, in common council affembled, fhould thereunto authorize and appoint, or by any seven or more of them (being all members of the faid court) and in fuch fort and manner, as from time to time fhould by them be found moft convenient for the public benefit of the inhabitants: and whereas by another act paffed in the fecond year of the reign of their late Majefties King William and Queen Mary, certain powers were given, W. & M and provifions made, touching the paving and cleansing the faid ftreets, and the preventing of nuisances or obftructions within the fame: and whereas by another act paffed in the tenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, further powers were given touching the paving and cleanfing the faid ftreets, and for erecting pofts within the fame: and whereas by another act passed in the thirty third year of the reign of his faid late majesty King George the Second, certain powers were given to the justices of the faid city, touching the repairing and relaying fuch pavements in the faid city as should be damaged by the breaking up of the fame, to amend or relay any water pipes: and whereas the good intention of the faid last mentioned at have been wholly frustrated, by the ill repairing the frequent breaches made in the faid pavements by the feveral water companies: and whereas, notwithstanding the directions of the faid acts, the inhabitants of the faid city and liberties have, for many years laft paft, taken upon themselves the paving and repairing the pavements of the faid freets, lanes, fquares, yards, courts, alleys, paffages, and places, by reafon whereof the fame have been, and are, paved in a very irregular and improper manner: and whereas the pavements of the faid city and liberties cannot be improved, and kept in good and decent order, and free from nuisances and obftructions, unless fome further provifions be made by authority of parliament for that purpose: and whereas by another act of parliament paffed in the feventeenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for making effectual provifion for enlightening the streets of the city of London, certain rates are directed to be affeffed and levied, in manner therein mentioned, for defraying the yearly charges of erecting, lighting, fupplying, and maintaining, fuch a convenient and fufficient number of glass lamps, within the faid city and liberties, as the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the faid city, in common council affembled, fhould think proper: and whereas feveral of the powers, VOL. XXVII.

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granted

33 Geo. 2.

and 17 Geo. 2.

granted by the faid laft recited act, have been found defective: and whereas the paving, cleansing, and enlightening, the faid city and liberties, might be executed with more advantage to the public, if the feveral powers and authorities relative thereto, were committed to the fame, inftead of different perfons: may it please your Majesty, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from Power of pav- and after the paffing of this act, the fole power and authority ing, &c. veft of pitching, paving, cleanfing, and enlightening, the streets, ed in mayor lanes, fquares, yards, courts, alleys, paffages, and places, withand common- in the faid city of London, and liberties thereof, fhall be, and the fame is hereby, vefted in the mayor, and commonalty and citizens, of the faid city, to be executed by fuch persons as the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the faid city, in common council affembled, fhall, from time to time, by virtue and in pursuance of the faid act of the twenty fecond and twenty third years of the reign of King Charles the Second, authorize and appoint to be commiffioners of the fewers for the faid city and liberties, or by any feven or more of them; which faid perfons fo to be, from time to time, authorized and appointed commiffioners of the fewers for the faid city and liberties, fhall be, and they are hereby, constituted commiffioners for carrying

alty of London.

this act into execution.

Recorder and II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That common fer- the recorder and common ferjeant of the faid city of London, jeant fhall be for the time being, fhall be, and they are hereby conftituted and appointed two of the commiffioners for carrying this act into execution.

commiffion

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7 commiffioners to be a quorum.

III. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That all the powers and authorities by this act granted to, or vefted in, the faid commiffioners hereby constituted as aforefaid, fhall and may, from time to time, be exercised by the major part of fuch of them as shall attend at any public meeting of the faid commiffioners, to be holden as herein after mentioned; the number of the faid commiffioners prefent at fuch public meeting not being less than feven; and all acts, orders, and proceedings, of the major part of the faid commiffioners prefent at fuch public meeting, fhall have the fame force and effect as if done or made by all the commiflioners conftituted by this act.

Commiffion- IV. And it is hereby further declared and enacted, That the ers to meet on first public meeting of the faid commiffioners, fhall be at fuch or before 24 time and place as the mayor of the faid city fhall think proper June, 1766. to order and appoint: and the faid mayor is hereby directed to order and appoint fuch firft public meeting to be held on or before the twenty fourth day of June, one thoufand seven hundred and fixty fix, and to caufe the faid commiffioners to be fummoned to attend the fame.

V. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, That it 6 fhall

fhall and may be lawful to and for the major part of the faid Power to adcommiffioners prefent at fuch firft public meeting, or at any fub- journ, fequent public meeting, of the faid commiffioners (the number fo attending not being lefs than three) to adjourn such public meeting to any future day and time, and to any place within the faid city and liberties.

VI. Provided always, That every commiffioner fhall have on notice. notice to attend at such adjourned public meeting, by the usual fummons from the clerk to the faid commiffioners.

VII. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted and de- Mayor may clared, That it thall and may be lawful to and for the mayor of appoint fpethe faid city for the time being, from time to time, to appoint cial meetings. a public meeting of the faid commiffioners, at any time and place he fhall judge proper, for the execution of this act, notwithstanding any adjournment or non-adjournment of the faid commiffioners; and thall cause the faid commiffioners to be fummoned to attend the fame.

VIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That the faid com- Commiffionmiffioners fhall and may, from time to time, at any of their ers to appoint faid public meetings, elect and appoint one or more clerk or clerks, &c. clerks, and one or more furveyor or furveyors, and alfo fuch and fo many other officers as they fhall find neceffary for the due execution of this act (fourteen days notice, of their intention to proceed to fuch election or appointment, having been first printed and published in two or more of the daily news papers, and notice thereof being alfo expreffed in the fummons for fuch public meeting) and the faid commiffioners fhall take fuch fecurity as they shall think proper, for the due execution of fuch refpective offices; and fhall and may, from time to time, remove any of the said officers at their will and pleasure, and appoint others in the room of fuch as fhall die, or be removed as aforefaid and the faid commiffioners fhall and may, out of the monies arifing or to arife by virtue of this act, appoint and pay fuch falaries, gratuities, and allowances, as they fhall judge reasonable, to fuch officers, and to all fuch other perfons as fhall have been, or shall be, employed in, or aiding and affifting about, the execution of this act.

IX. And it is hereby further enacted, That if any clerk, fur- Penalty on veyor, or other officer, or fervant, who fhall be employed by exactions of the faid commiffioners in the execution of this act, or any part clerks, &c. thereof, shall exact, demand, take, or accept, any fee, gratuity, or reward whatsoever (other than fuch falaries, allowances, and rewards, as shall be appointed, allowed, and approved of, by the faid commiffioners) for or on account of any thing done, or to be done, by virtue of this act; or for forbearing to do any thing hereby, or by the faid commiffioners, directed to be done, or on any account whatsoever, relative to the execution or nonexecution of this act; or fhall any way be concerned in intereft, in any bargain made or to be made by the faid commiffioners, for any of the purpofes intended by this act; every perfon fo offending, fhall from thenceforth for ever be incapable of being

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