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Cap. 78.GEORGII III. REGIS.1611

Place, shall be removeable therefrom to his, her, or
their last legal Place of Settlement, until such Person
or Persons shall become actually chargeable to such
Parish or Place; any Law now in being, relative to
the Settlement of the Poor, to the contrary thereof
notwithstanding.

No Wholesale
Trader in
British Goods
to be deemed
a Hawker, Etc.


XIV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That
no Person, being a Wholesale Trader in English Bone-
lace, in Woollen, Linen, Silk, Cotton, or mired Goods,
or any of the Goods, Wares, or Manufactures of Great
Britain, and selling the same by Wholesale, shall be deemed
or taken to be a Hawker, Pedlar, or Petty Chapman,
within the Intent and Meaning of this or of any other
Act relative to Hawkers, or of any or either of them; and
that all and every such Person or Persons, his, her, or
their Children, Apprentices, Servants, or Agents, sel-
ling by Wholesale only, shall go from House to House,
and from Shop to Shop, to any of their Customers who
sell again by Wholesale or Retail, without being subject
or liable to any of the Penalties or Forfeitures contained
in this or in any of the said Acts touching Hawkers, Ped-
lars, or Petty Chapmen; any Thing in this or in any
of the said Acts contained to the contrary notwith-
standing.

This Act not
to extend to
certain Per-
sons as herein
described.


XV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That
nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend,
to prohibit any Person or Persons from selling any
printed Papers licensed by Authority, or any Fish,
Fruits, or Victuals, nor to hinder any Person or Persons
who are the real Workers or Makers of any Goods,
Wares, or Manufactures of Great Britain, or his, her, or
their Children, Apprentices, Agents, or Servants to such
real Workers or Makers of such Goods, Wares, or Ma-
nufactures only, from carrying Abroad, exposing to Sale,
and selling by Retail or otherwise, any of the said Goods,
Wares, or Manufactures, of his, her, or their own Mak-
ing, in any Mart, Market, or Fair, and in every City,
Borough, Town Corporate, and Market Town; nor any
Tinkers, Coopers, Claziers, Plummers, Harness-men-
ders, or other Persons usually trading in mending ket-
tles,




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