Cap. 68.GEORGE III. REGIS

parlance, shall be allowed, and wherein the Ordinary Costs
of the Suit shall be paid; One Moiety of which said
Forfeiture, when recovered, shall belong and be paid to
His Majesty and His Successors, and the other Moiety to
the Person who shall sue for the same.

Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no-
thing in this Act contained shall ertend, or be construed to
extend, to six, Controul, or regulate, the Wages or Al-
lowances to be paid to Servants in the said Business of a
Weaver, bona fide retained and employed as Foremen.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That, from and after the passing of this Act, no Person or
Persons, being Silk Weabers, residing within the Di-
stricts aforesaid, shall bade in his or their Service at any
One Time more than Two Apprentices, upon Pain of
forfeiting for every Offence the Sum of Twenty Pounds;
to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods
and Chattels, upon Conviction, on the Oath or Oaths
of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, before
Two Justices of the Peace within either of the Jurisdic-
tions aforesaid where the said Offence shall be committed;
and the said Penalty, when recovered, shall be paid into
the Hands of the Master of the Weavers Company, to
be applied by him as aforesaid, and the said Justices are
hereby authorised and required to discharged every such
Apprentice or Apprentices exceeding the Number of Two,

Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall
and may be lawful for any Person convicted, before any
Two Justices of the Peace, as Mentioned, to ap-
peal to the Justices of the Peace assembled at the next
General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions to be
held for the County, City, or Place, wherein such Con-
viction shall be made, giving immediate Notice of such
Appeal, and finding sufficient Security to the Satisfac-
tion of such Justices for being personally present at such
General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions, and for
prosecuting the said Appeal with Effect, and abiding the
Judgement of the Court; and such Justices, in such Ge-
neral Quarter Sessions or General Sessions, shall finally
hear and determine the Matter, and shall have Power.

1379
Forfeitures
how to be ap-
plied.

Not to fix the
Wages of
Foremen

No silk Wea-
vers residing
within the
Districts
aforesaid to
have more
than Two
Apprentices
at One Time
under Penal-
ty of 20l.

Penalty to be
applied as
aforesaid

Persons con-
victed before
Two Justices
may appeal to
the Quarter
Sessions.

Determina-
tion of Justices
shall be final.