Weftminster, the Court of Seffion, Court of Jufticiary, or Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record in Dublin, refpectively, wherein no Effoin, Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance, fhall be alhow to be dif. lowed; and one Moiety of the faid Penalties fhall be to the Ufe of the King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety to fuch Perfon or Perfons as will fue or profecute for the fame. pofed of. § 4. AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon fhall make or affix, or caufe or procure to be made or affixed, on any Linens of Foreign Manufacture or Fabrick, imported into Great Britain or Ireland, any of the Marks or Stamps required by Law to be put on Linens of the Manufacture of Scotland or Ireland, or fhall make or affix, or cause or procure to be made or affixed, on any fuch Foreign Linens, any of the Marks or Stamps hereby required to be marked or stamped upon Linens of the Manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or fhall make or affix, or caufe or procure to be made or affixed, on any fuch Foreign Linens, any Mark or Stamp, Marks or Stamps, in imitation of any of the faid Marks or Stamps hereby, or by any other Law or Laws now in Force, required to be marked or stamped on British or Irish Linens, fuch the Pillory sol. or im reign Linens British or fuch Perfon fo offending, and being there- To stand on in more pofed of. In cafe of a Question, more than one Imparlance, fhall be allowhow to be dif. ed; and one Moiety of the faid Penalties fhall be to the Ufe of the King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety to fuch Perfon or Perfons as will fue or profecute for the fame: And in case it fhall be made a Question, Whether fuch Linens are of the Manufacture or Fabrick of Great Britain or Ireland, or of any Foreign Country; in fuch Cafe the Onus probandi thereof fhall lie upon the Claimer of fuch Linen, or the Defendant in fuch Action or Suit. nens be Foreign, the Onus probandi to lie on ant. Method of to be altered. $5. PROVIDED always, and it is hereftamping now by declared, That nothing herein conin Force not tained fhall extend to vary or alter the Method of stamping of Linens of the Manufacture of Ireland or Scotland, by virtue of any Law or Laws now in Force relating thereto; but that, befides the Marks or Stamps herein before mentioned, all fuch Linens fhall be marked and ftamped in the fame manner, as the fame ought to have been if this Act had not been made. N° X. N° X. Anno decimo octavo GEORGII II. Regis. An ACT for more effectually preventing the 4 Geo. II. 1.WHEREAS many Doubts and Dif- Preamble, reficulties have arifen upon the citing the A&t Conftruction of an Act paffed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An Act to prevent the Stealing of Linen, Fuftian, and Cotton Goods and Wares, from Fields, Grounds, and other Places, ufed for Whitening, Bleaching, or Drying the fame; in regard the faid Act doth not exprefs and mention, with fufficient Certainty, the refpective Goods and Wares, the stealing whereof from the refpective Places therein mentioned and described, is by the faid Act intended to be prevented, whereby the good and wholefome Ends proposed by the faid Act, have in a great Measure been fruftrated, and by by Means thereof many of his Majesty's good Subjects have been greatly injured in their Properties, and put to very great Expences and Charges in watching the fame, which nevertheless hath hitherto proved ineffectual: For Remedy whereof, and for the more effectual preventing of Thefts, frequently committed in Buildings, Fields, Grounds, and other Places ufed for Printing, Whitening, Bleaching, or Drying of Linen, Fuftian, and Cotton Goods or Wares, for the future; May it please your Majefty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the After 1 June, Authority of the fame, That all and every ever thall fteal Perfon and Perfons, who at any Time af 1745, who Linen, &c. laid to be printed, bleached, &c. ter the First Day of June, One thousand |