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<p n="87">for that Purpose And such Justices shall within the Space of Fourteen Days next after <lb></lb>
such General Sessions cause such Rates and Alterations from Time to Time to be printed <lb></lb>
published and made known in such Manner also them shall seem meet at the reasonable <lb></lb>
Expence of any Person or Persons desiring the same And for and after Publication <lb></lb>
thereof all Taylors and their <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50540_occ32">Journeymen and Servants</rs>
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within the Limits aforesaid <lb></lb>
are hereby strictly required to observe the same upon Pain of Imprisonment by such <lb></lb>
Justices for any Time not exceeding two Months being lawfully convicted of such <lb></lb>
Offence after Knowledge or Information of any such Rates or Alterations thereof to <lb></lb>
be made as aforesaid upon any Prosecution to be commenced within Six Days after <lb></lb>
the Offence committed.</p>
<p n="88">That since the making the above Act the Price of Labour in all Trades and <lb></lb>
Business is much encreased of which the Master Taylors are so sensible that the<lb></lb>
greatest Part and the mosteminent amongst them have for several Years past paid <lb></lb>
their <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50540_occ33">Journeymen</rs>
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Two Shillings and Six Pence a Day all the Year.</p>
<p n="89">That your Petitioners were untill the late Disputes between the Masters and their <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50540_occ34">Journeymen</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50540_geo85">Middlesex</rs>
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entirely ignorant of the said Act and the Penalties incurred by<lb></lb>
paying and receiving more Wages than by the said Act is allowed for Want of having an<lb></lb>
Order or Appointment made for the Payment of the same by your Worships in Pursuance <lb></lb>
to the Power oested in you by the said Act.</p>
<p n="90">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your <lb></lb>
Worships will be pleased to alter the Wages and the Hours <lb></lb>
of Working mentioned in the said Act, And to order that every <lb></lb>
Master Taylor, residing in the said City, Do and shall pay unto <lb></lb>
every <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50540_occ35">Journeyman Taylor</rs>
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, for his Work, Two Shillings and <lb></lb>
Six Pence a Day, and that the Hours of Working be<lb></lb>
appointed to be from six of the Clock in the Morning to six <lb></lb>
of the Clock at Night, or that your Worships will be pleased <lb></lb>
to make such other Order or Appointment in the Premises <lb></lb>
as to your Worships shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="91">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc</p>
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