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hung up and affixed and signed by the Proprietors, Manager or Overseer of such Mill, Manufactory or Building; and that such Copy or Abstract shall be kept and renewed, so that the same shall be at all Times legible.

Limitation of

Informations.

No double Prosecution but by Order of Quarter Ses

sions.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That every Occupier or Occupier or Foreman of any such Cotton Mill, Manufactory or Building, Foreman of- ] who shall knowingly act contrary to or offend against any of the fending. Provisions of this Act, or any of the Provisions of the above recited Acts, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, nor less than Ten Pounds, at the Penalty. Discretion of the Justices before whom such Offender shall be convicted; One Half whereof shall be paid to the Informer, and How applied the other Half to the Overseers of the Poor in England, to the Churchwardens in Ireland, and to the Ministers and Elders in Scotland, of the Parish or Place where such Offence shall be committed, to be by them applied in aid of the Poor Rate in England, and for the Benefit of the Poor in Ireland and Scotland of such Parish or Place: Provided always, that no Sum exceeding One hundred Pounds in the Whole shall be levied for any Number of Offences under this Act committed in the same Day in any One Mill or Establishment; and that all Informations for Offences against the said recited Acts or this Act shall be laid within Two Calendar Months subsequently to the Offence being committed, and not afterwards: Provided also, that no Person shall be prosecuted for more than One Offence committed on the same Day in any One Mill or Establishment, without the Sanction and Authority of the Justices at Quarter Sessions assembled; and that all Penalties inflicted by this Act shall be levied and recovered in Manner directed by the said first recited Act. IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That every Book kept for Proprietor or Occupier of any Mill, Manufactory or Building registering hereinbefore described, wherein Children under the Age above mentioned, that is to say, Sixteen Years of Age, are or shall be employed in spinning Cotton Wool into Yarn, or in the previous Preparation thereof, shall provide or cause to be provided a Book or Books, to be kept by himself or herself, or by some Person appointed by him or her, for the Entry of the Name of every Child, previous to his or her being employed in any such Mill, Manufactory or Building for the Purpose aforesaid, whom any such Proprietor or Occupier may consider under the Age of Nine Years, together with the Names of the Parents or Guardians of any such Child; and that the Signature of such Parents or Guardians, or One of them, when so entered in the said Book or Books, specifying the Date of such Entry, and that the said Child or Children is or are of or above the Age of Nine Years, shall in all such Cases exempt such Proprietor or Occupier of such Mill, Manufactory or Building from any Prosecution under the Provisions of this Act, in so far as relates to the Penalties imposed on Persons employing Children under the aforesaid Age of Nine Years, for any of the Purposes aforesaid.

Entry of Child

in the Mill, &c.

Such Book to be a sufficient Voucher of Age

of Children employed.

rested not to

act.

X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Justice Justices inteof the Peace, being also a Proprietor or Master of any Cotton Mill or Factory, or the Father or Son of any such Proprietor or Master, shall act as such Justice under this Act. X 2

XI. And

Justices empowered to

summon

Witnesses;

+ Sic.

and to punish Witnesses refusing to give Evidence.

Proceedings

thereon.

Proviso.

Form of Convictions and Commitment as in Schedule.

No Appeal.

In Actions for

XI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any One or more Justices of the Peace, before whom any such Complaint and Information shall be made as aforesaid, and he and they are hereby authorized and required, at the Request in Writing of any of the Parties, to issue his or their Summons to any Witness or Witnesses to appear and give Evidence before any Two Justices at the Time and Place appointed for hearing and determining such Complaint, and which Time and Place shall be specified in such Summons†; or offer some reasonable Excuse for the Default, or appearing according to such Summons, shall not submit to be examined as a Witness, and give his or her Evidence before such Justices, touching the Matter of such Complaint, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for such Justices, and they are hereby authorized (Proof on Oath, which Oath either of such Justices are hereby empowered to administer, in the Case of any Person not appearing according to such Summons, having been first made before such Justices of the due Service of such Summons on every such Person, by delivering the same to him or her, or by leaving the same Forty eight Hours before the Time appointed for such Person to appear before such Justices, at the usual Place of Abode of such Person) by Warrant under the Hands of such Justices, in the Form and to the Effect of the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, to commit such Person so making Default in appearing, or appearing and refusing to give Evidence, to some Prison within the Jurisdiction of such Justices, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, for any Time not exceeding Two Calendar Months, or until such Person shall submit himself or herself to be examined, and give his or her Evidence before such Justices as aforesaid: Provided always, that in case such Complaint shall be heard and determined before such Offender shall submit to be examined and give evidence as aforesaid, then and in every such Case he, she or they shall be imprisoned the full Term of such Commitment.

XII. And be it further enacted, That the Justices before whom any Person shall be convicted of any Offence against this Act, or by whom any Person shall be committed to Prison for not appearing as a Witness, or not submitting to be examined, shall cause all such Convictions, and the Warrants or Orders for such Commitments, to be drawn up in the Form or to the Effect set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That no Appeal shall be allowed against any Conviction under this Act.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That if any Action shall be executing Act. brought against any Person, for any Matter or Thing whatsoever done or committed under or by virtue or in the Execution of this Act, such Person may plead the General Issue, and give this Act General Issue. and the special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff shall become nonsuited or suffer Discontinuance, or forbear further Prosecution, or if Judgment shall be given for the Defendant, such Defendant shall recover his full Costs, for which he shall have like Remedy as in Cases where Costs by Law are given to Defendants.

Full Costs.

Recited Acts extended to

this Act.

XV. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Powers, Provisions, Exemptions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Payments, Re

medies,

medies, Matters and Things respectively contained in the said hereinbefore recited Acts (save and except such Parts thereof as Exception. are expressly varied, altered or otherwise provided for by this Act), shall respectively be as good, valid and effectual for carrying this Act into Execution, as if the same had respectively been repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act.

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

Form of a Commitment of a Person summoned as a Witness. WHEREAS C. D. hath been duly summoned to appear and give Evidence before us (naming the Justices who issued the Summons), Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County (or Riding, Division, City, Liberty, Town or Place) of

on this

Day of

at

being the Time and Place appointed for hearing and determining the Complaint made on the Oath of (the Informer or Prosecutor) before us against A. B. of having (stating the Offence as laid in the Information), contrary to the Statute made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled (here insert the Title of this Act): And Whereas the said C. D. hath not appeared before us, at the Time and Place aforesaid specified for that Purpose, or offered any reasonable Excuse for his Default (or And Whereas the said C.D. having appeared before us, at the Time and Place aforesaid specified for that Purpose, hath not submitted to be examined as a Witness and give his Evidence before us, touching the Matter of the said Complaint, but hath refused so to do) therefore we, the said Justices, do hereby in pursuance of the Statute, commit the said C. D. to the (describing the Prison), there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for his Contempt aforesaid, until he shall submit himself to be examined and give his Evidence before us touching the Matter of the said Complaint, or shall otherwise be discharged by due Course of Law; and you the (Constable or other Peace Officer or Officers to whom the Warrant is directed), are hereby authorized and required to take into your Custody the Body of the said C. D. and him safely to convey to the said Prison, and him there to deliver to the Gaoler or Keeper thereof, who is hereby authorized and required to receive into his Custody the Body of the said C.D. and him safely to detain and keep, pursuant to this Commitment. Given under our Hands, this Day

of

in the Year of our Lord

[This Commitment to be directed to the proper Peace Officer, and the Gaoler or Keeper of the Prison.]

CA P. LXIV.

An Act to alter for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Duty on Wheat the Produce of the British Possessions in North America.

[22d June 1825.] HEREAS it is expedient to permit, for a Time to be limited, the Importation of Wheat the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, on

X 3

• the

Prohibitions on
Importation of
Wheat, of the
British Posses-
sions in North
America, and
Duties under

55 G.3. c.26.;
and 3 G. 4.

c.60. &c. suspended.

New Import ation Duty instead of

former Duties.

Regulations observed on Importation of such Wheat.

the Payment of a certain Duty;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, all Prohibitions and Restrictions upon the Importation of Wheat the Produce of, and imported from the British Possessions in North America, and all Duties payable on the Importation of such Wheat under an Act passed in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn; and also an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn; or any other Act or Acts in force immediately before the passing of this Act, shall be and are hereby suspended; and that for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, any Wheat, the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, shall and may be imported into the United Kingdom, whatever the Average Prices of British Wheat may be, any Thing in the said Acts or any of them to the contrary notwithstanding; and that from and after the passing of this Act, in lieu and instead of all former Duties payable on such Wheat, there shall be levied and paid, during the Period aforesaid, upon the Importation of any such Wheat, the Sum of Five Shillings for every Quarter thereof. [Sce Cap. 111. § 19. post.]

II. And be it further enacted, That no Wheat shall be shipped from any Port in the British Possessions in North America, until the Owner or Proprietor thereof shall have made Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Shipment, that such Wheat was the Produce of some British Possession in North America, naming the same; and that before any Wheat shall be entered in the United Kingdom as being the Produce of the British Possessions in North America, the Master of the Ship importing the same shall produce a Copy of the Deposition made, signed by the Collector or Comptroller before whom it was made, at the Port of Shipment, and make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Importation, that the Wheat is the same that was sworn to in the Deposition he produces : Provided always, that this Oath shall not be required in respect to any Wheat which shall have been shipped within Three Months after the passing of this Act.

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CAP. LXV.

An Act to allow, until the Fifteenth Day of August One
thousand eight hundred and twenty five, the Entry of
Warehoused Corn, Grain and Wheaten Flour for Home
Consumption, on Payment of Duty. [22d June 1825.]

WH HEREAS it is expedient to permit for a limited Time

the Entry for Home Consumption of certain Warehoused Corn, Grain and Wheaten Flour, upon Payment of Duties lower than those now payable by Law;' Be it therefore enacted by

the

Foreign Corn, &c. herein dehoused before May 13, 1822, and Wheaten Flour warehoused under

scribed ware

5 G.4. c.70. may be taken out for Home Consumption at the Times

herein men

tioned,

the King'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 from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Importer or Proprietor of any Foreign Corn or Grain, or of any Wheaten Flour, (such Corn or Grain, or Flour, not being the Growth, Produce or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America,) which was secured in Warehouse at any Time before the Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and for the Importer or Proprietor of any Wheaten Flour warehoused under the Authority of an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to permit Flour to be substituted for Foreign Wheat secured in Warehouses, and which shall be and remain in Warehouse at the Time of the passing of this Act, to take any such Corn or Flour or any Part thereof out of Warehouse, and to enter the same for Home Consumption, at the Times and in the Proportion following, and subject to the Payment of the several Duties hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, any Quantity of such Corn, Grain or Flour (not exceeding One Half Part of the whole Quantity warehoused belonging to any such Importer or Proprietor respectively), at any Time between the Fifteenth Day of June and the Fifteenth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and the Remainder, being the other Half of such Corn, Grain or Flour warehoused at the Time of the passing of this Act, belonging to any such Importer or Proprietor respectively, at any Time between the said Fifteenth Day of July and the Fifteenth Day of August next following; any Thing contained in an Act notwithstandmade in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty ing 55 G.3. King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn, or in an Act 3 G.4.c.60. made in the Third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn, or in any other Act or Acts to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted, That upon the Entry for Home On Entry for Consumption of any such Corn or Grain, or Flour, under this Act, Home Conand before the same shall be taken out of Warehouse, within sumption, the the respective Times and in the respective Proportions hereinbe- following Duties paid; fore mentioned, there shall be levied and paid upon all such Corn or Grain, and Flour, the several and respective Duties hereinafter mentioned, and no other or greater Duties, in lieu and instead of all Duties payable on such Corn or Grain, or Flour, under any Act or Acts in force immediately before the passing of this Act; that is to say, for every Quarter of Wheat, the Sum of Ten Duties. Shillings; for every Quarter of Rye, Pease or Beans, the Sum of Six Shillings and Sixpence; for every Quarter of Barley, Bear or Bigg, the Sum of Five Shillings; for every Quarter of Oats, the Sum of Three Shillings and Sixpence; and for every Hundred Weight of Wheaten Flour, the Sum of Two Shillings and Ten Pence.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no such Warehoused Corn or Grain, or Flour, or any Part thereof, shall be admitted to Entry for Home Consumption, nor shall be taken out of X 4

Warehouse,

c. 26.

No such Warehoused Corn or Flour to be

taken out after

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