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Cap. 78.GEORGII III. REGIS.1607

terfeited Licence or Licences, for any of the Purposes
aforesaid, every such Person shall, for every such Offence,
forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to be recovered
and applied as herein-after is directed.

Every Person
lending, or
letting his Li-
cence to Hire,
after Aug. 1,
1785 , forfeits
10l. and his
Licence.


VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That, from and after the said first Day of August,
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five , in case any
Person shall let out to Hire, or lend any Licence to him
or her granted as aforesaid, or shall trade with or under
colour of any Licence granted unto any other Person
whatsoever, or of any Licence in which his or her own
real Name shall not he inserted as the Name of the
Person to whom the same is granted, the Person
letting out to Hire, or lending any such Licence, and
the Person to trading with or under colour of any Li-
cence granted to any other Person, or any Licence in
which his or her own real Name shall not be inserted as
the Name of the Person to whom the same is granted, shall
each of them forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds, to be
recovered and applied as herein-after mentioned: And in
case any Person shall be convicted, or have Judgement
against him for lending his or her Licence to any other
Person or Persons, contrary to this Act, such his or her
Licence shall be from thenceforth forfeited and void, and
he or she shall be utterly incapable of having any Licence
again granted to him or her to trade as aforesaid.

Every Person
trading with-
out Licence,
or refusing to
produce one,
liable to be
detained till
the 10l. is
paid.


VII. And he it further enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That it shall and may be lawful for any Person or
Persons whatsoever to seize and detain any such Hawker,
Pedlar, Petty Chapman, or other trading Person as
aforesaid, who shall be found trading without a Licence,
contrary to this Act, or who being found trading shall re-
fuse or neglect to produce a Licence according to this Act,
after being required so to do for a reasonable Time, in or-
der to give Notice to a Constable, Headborough, Tithing-
man, or other Peace Officer or Officers, who are here-
by required to carry such Persons to seized, unless
they shall in the mean Time produce their respective
Licences, before some of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace of the County of Place where such Offence or
Offences




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