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