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<p n="54">[1375]</p>
<p n="55">ANNO DECIMO TERTIO</p>
<p n="56">Georii III. Regis.</p>
<p n="57">C A P. LXVIII.</p>
<p n="58">An Act to impower the Magistrates therein men-<lb></lb>
tioned to Settle and regulate the Wages of Per-<lb></lb>
sons employed in the Silk Manufacture within<lb></lb>
their respective Jurisdictions.</p>
<p n="59">WHEREAS it would be for the Be-Preamble.<lb></lb>
nefit of Persons employed in the<lb></lb>
Silk Manufacture, if the Magi-<lb></lb>
strates were impowered to settle, be<lb></lb>
tween the Master Weabers and their<lb></lb>
Fournpmen, the Price of Labour<lb></lb>
in the several Bianches of the said<lb></lb>
Manufacture; be it therefore enacted by the King's most<lb></lb>
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent<lb></lb>
of the Lords Spritual and Temporal, and Commons,<lb></lb>
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Ju-<lb></lb>
thority of the same, That, from and after the first Day<lb></lb>
of July One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy three,<lb></lb>
the Wages and Prices for Work of the Journeymen<lb></lb>
Weavers</p>
<p n="60">After July 1,<lb></lb>
1773, the Wa-<lb></lb>
ges of Jour-<lb></lb>
neymen Wea-<lb></lb>
vers within<lb></lb>
London to be<lb></lb>
settled by the<lb></lb>
Lord Mayor,<lb></lb>
etc.</p>
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