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fuch Offence,

Bleaching Croft, Lands, Fields, or Grounds, Bowking-house, Drying-house, Printinghoufe, or other Building, Ground, or Place, made ufe of by any Callico Printer, Whitfter, Crofter, Bowker, or Bleacher, for Printing, Whitening, Bowking, Bleaching, or Drying of the fame, to the Value of Ten Shillings, or who fhall aid or affift, or thall aid of or fhall wilfully or maliciously hire or to commit procure any other Perfon or Perfons, to commit any fuch Offence, or who fhall buy or receive any fuch Goods or Wares fo stolen, knowing the fame to be stolen as aforefaid, being lawfully convicted. thereof, fhall be, and is and are hereby fhall be decla declared to be guilty of Felony, and every Felony, and fuch Offender fhall fuffer Death, as in fuffer Death. Cafes of Felony without Benefit of Clergy; any Law or Ufage to the contrary notwithstanding,

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§ 2. PROVIDED always, That in cafe the Judge or Court, by and before whom any fuch Offender or Offenders fhall be tried and convicted, shall think it reasonable, upon the Circumstances of the Cafe, that fuch Offender or Offenders, or any of them, instead of suffering Death, should be transported to fome of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations beyond the Seas; The Court it is hereby further enacted, That in eve-fuch Offendгу fuch Cafe, it shall and may be lawful ers to be tranf to and for fuch Judge or Court, and he Years instead

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or they fhall hereby have full Power and Authority, instead of giving Judgement of Death against fuch Offender or Offenders, as in the Cafes of Felony without Benefit of Clergy, in Manner herein before directed, to order fuch Offender or Offenders, being tried and convicted as aforefaid, to be transported to any of his Majefty's Colonies or Plantations in America, for the Space of Fourteen Years, upon the like Terms and Conditions, and by the fame Ways and Means, and in like Manner, as any other Felons may or are to be tranfported to any of his Majesty's faid Colonies or Plantations, by Force or Virtue of any Law for that Purpose now in Force; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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§ 3. AND be it further enacted, by the ers, breaking Authority aforefaid, That if any fuch OfGaol, or re- fender or Offenders aforefaid, who fhall 14 Years, be fo ordered for Tranfportation by, or ful Caufe, to by virtue of this Act, fhall break Gaol, fuffer Death. or escape thereout, before fuch Transport

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ation, or fhall return into, or be at large within any Part of this Kingdom of Great Britain, without fome lawful Caufe, before the Expiration of the faid Term of Fourteen Years, for which fuch Offender or Offenders fhall be ordered to be tranfported as aforefaid, that then, and in fuch Cafe, all and every fuch Offender or Offenders,

Offenders, being thereof lawfully convicted, fhall fuffer Death as Felons, and have Execution awarded against them as Perfons attainted of Felony without Benefit of Clergy.

$4. AND be it further enacted by the This Act to Authority aforefaid, That this Act fhall commence ift June 1745; be deemed to commence from the faid First Day of June, in the Year of our Lord, One thoufnd feven hundred and fortyfive; and from that Time the faid Act and the Act 4 Geo. II. re made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of pealed. his present Majesty, entituled, An act to prevent the Stealing of Linen, Fuftian, and Cotton Goods and Wares, from Fields, Grounds, and other Places, used for Whitening, Bleaching, or Drying the fame, fhall be, and is hereby repealed.

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CLAUSES of an Act, decima octavo Georgii II, Regis, entituled,

An ACT for PROHIBITING the Weare ing and Importation of CAMBRICKS and FRENCH LAWNS.

Preamble. § 1. WHEREAS it is evidently for the

Advantage of this Kingdom,

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that the Wearing of Cambricks and French Lawns fhould be prohibited; be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the After June fame, That from and after the Twenty24.1748, no fourth Day of June, which fhall be in French Lawn the Year of our Lord One thousand seven

Cambrick or

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to be worn, hundred and forty-eight, it fhall not be of 51. for eve-lawful for any Perfon or Perfons whatfory Offence.

ever to wear in Great Britain, in any Garment or Apparel whatfoever, any Cambrick or French Lawn, under the Penalty of forfeiting to the Informer the Sum of Five Pounds, of lawful Money of Great Britain, for every fuch Offence, being lawfully convicted thereof by the Oath or

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Anno Regni decimo octavo, &c.

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Oaths of One or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes, before any one or more Juftice or Justices of the Peace; which Juftice or Juftice to Juftices is and are hereby refpectively au- Party accufed. thorised, and strictly enjoined and required, upon any Complaint or Information upon Oath, exhibited or brought of any fuch Offence committed contrary to this Act, within Six Days after Commitment thereof, to fummon the Party accused, and upon his or her Appearance or Contempt, to proceed to Examination of the Matter of Fact; and upon due Proof thereof made, either by voluntary Confeffion of the Party, or by the Oath or Oaths of One or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes (which Oath or Oaths the faid Justice or Juftices is and are hereby respectively impowered and required to administer) to hear and determine the fame; and, upon Penalty to be fuch Conviction, to cause the said Penalty, ftrefs and Sale. levied by Di by Warrant under his or their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals refpectively, to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels, rendering the Overplus, (the Charges of fuch Distress and Sale being first deducted); neverthe-Appeal may lefs it fhall be lawful for the Party ag- the Quarter4 grieved, to appeal to the Juftices of the Seffions; Peace at the next General Quarter-Seffions to be holden for the County, City, Riding, or Place, where the faid Offence or

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