3 H. 6, c. 1.

33 H. 8., st. 1, c. 9 (I.),

2 and 3 Ed. 6, c. 15.

5 Parl. Jac. 1 (S.).

7 Parl. Jac. 1 (S.).

5 Parl. Mary (S.).

7 Parl. Jac. 6 (S.).

13 and 14 C. 2, c. 15, § 10.

7 G. 1, st. 1. c. 13, § 4.6.

12 G. 1, c. 34, § 1.8.

into work; and also so much of a statute made in the third year of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the annual congregations and confederacies made by Masons in their general chapters assembled; and also a certain act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the thirty third year of King Henry the Eighth, intituled "An Act for Servants Wages; also a certain act passed in the second and third years of King Edward the Sixth, intituled An Act touching Victuallers and Handicraftsmen; and also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled "Of the Fees of Craftsmen, and the Price of their Worke"; also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled "Of the Fees of Workmen"; also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Fifth Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled "Of Writches and Masones"; also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Seventh Parliament of King James the First of Scotland, intituled "The Price of Silk Workmanshippe"; also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Fifth Parliament of Queen Mary of Scotland, intituled "The Price of Craftesmenne's Wark, of Meate and Drinke in Tavernes"; also a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Seventh Parliament of King James the Sixth of Scotland, intituled "Anent the setting of Ordour and Price in all stuiffe"; also so much of a certain other act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act for regulating the Trade of Silk Throwing," as provides and enacts, that the Corporation of Silk Throwers should not, by virtue of that act, nor any thing therein contained, make any orders, ordinances, or bye laws, to set any rates or prices whatsoever upon the throwing of silk, to bind or enforce their members to work at; also a certain other act passed in the seventh year of King George the First, intituled "An Act for regulating the Journeymen Tailors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality," excepting so much thereof as relates to the recovery of wages, or to journeymen tailors or servants departing from their service, or refusing to enter into work or employment, as therein mentioned; also so much of an act passed in the twelfth year of King George the First, intituled "An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages," as provides that contracts, covenants or agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules and orders, made or entered into by or between persons brought up in, or professing, using or exercising the art and mystery of a woolcomber or weaver, or journeyman woolcomber or

3 G. 2, c. 14,

17 G. 2, c. 28,

journeyman weaver, as therein mentioned, shall be illegal, null and void, and as punishes woolcombers, weavers, journeymen woolcombers and weavers, and other persons concerned in the woollen manufactures, for keeping up, continuing, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing or being knowingly concerned in, presuming or attempting to put in execution such agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules or orders, as therein mentioned, and as provides that the provisions of the said act of the Twelfth of George the First, just recited, shall extend to the persons therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the third year of King George (1) in part. the Second, intituled "An Act to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen, Artificers, and Labourers, employed in the several Trades and Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for the better Payment of their Wages; as also to prevent Abuses in making of bricks, and to ascertain their Dimensions," as declares illegal, null and void the contracts, covenants, agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules and orders therein mentioned, and makes it an offense to keep up, continue, act in, make, enter into, sign, seal or be knowingly concerned therein, and to presume or attempt to put the same into execution, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the seventeenth year of King George the Second, intituled "An (I.) in part. Act for continuing several Statutes now near expiring, and for amending other Statutes, and for other Puposes therein mentioned," as declares the assemblies therein mentioned to be unlawful assemblies, the houses where they meet common nuisances, and punishes the master and mistress thereof, as likewise those who enter into the contracts, covenants or articles therein mentioned, or collect or pay money for the support of persons as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the twenty second year of King George the 22 G. 2, c. 27, Second, intituled "An Act for the more effectual venting Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair and Silk manufactures, and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hotpressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages," as extends those provisions of the said act of the Twelfth of George the First herein mentioned to the persons therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the twenty ninth year of 29 G. 2, c. 33, King George the Second, intituled "An Act to render $1. more effectual an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George, to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the

pre

§ 12.

3 G. 3, c. 17, (I.) in part.

3 G. 3, c. 34, (I.) in part.

8 G. 3, c. 17.

11 and 12 G. 3, c. 18 (I.).

Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages; and also an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture, and for preventing Disputes among the Persons concerned therein, and for limiting a Time for Prosecution for the Forfeiture Appointed by the aforesaid Act, in case of the Payment of the Workmen's Wages in any other Manner than in Money," as relates to the making of rates for the payment of wages, continuing and altering and notifying them as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the third year of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for continuing and amending certain temporary Statutes heretofore made, for the better Regulation of the City of Cork, and for enlarging the Salary of the Treasurer, and for the better regulating the Sale of Coals in the said City, and for erecting and continuing Lamps in the same, and for the better preserving the Streets and Highways therein, and for confirming and establishing a Court of Conscience in the said City, and for regulating the Assize of Bread therein, and for securing the Quays by Parapet Walls," as relates to the assemblies and combinations of artificers, journeymen, apprentices, labourers and manufacturers therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the third year of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures," as relates to meeting in order to consult upon or enter into rules, agreements or combinations to ascertain or fix the price of labour or workmanship, and as relates to administering oaths or declarations tending to fix the price of wages or workmanship, and as relates to issuing and delivering tickets, certificates and tokens of parties being licensed to work, and as relates to rules, orders and regulations relating to the price or wages of labour or workmanship, and as relates to oaths to enter into combinations or agreements to ascertain or fix the price of wages or workmanship, and to oaths and combinations not to work for a particular employer, as therein mentioned; also a certain other act passed in the eighth year of King George the Third, intituled "An Act to amend an Act made in the Seventh Year of King George the First, intituled 'An Act for regulating the Journeymen Tailors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality'"; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the eleventh and twelfth years of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the Regulation of the City of Cork, and for other Purposes therein mentioned relative to the said City," as relates to the meetings and assemblies therein mentioned, the

c. 33 (I.) in

part.

administering and taking oaths and declarations, to the tickets, certificates, advertisements and writings, and to the rules, orders, agreements and regulations, and to the combinations and agreements to ascertain or fix he price of wages, labour or workmanship, or not to work, and as relates to the refusal or neglect, by persons not in actual service, to work on application made, and as relates to the detection and discovery of assemblies and combinations for any of the above recited purposes, and as relates to ascertaining wages as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the eleventh and twelfth 11 and 12 G. 3, years of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for regulating the Journeymen Tailors and Journeymen Shipwrights of the City of Dublin, and the Liberties thereof, and of the county of Dublin," as punishes those who permit the clubs and societies therein mentioned to be kept or held in their houses or apartments, and as makes the contracts, covenants and agreements therein mentioned, and oaths to enforce them, illegal, and as punishes persons for keeping up, continuing, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing or being knowingly interested or concerned in such contracts, covenants or agreements, and as punishes persons not retained or employed for refusing to enter into work or employment on request made, as therein mentioned, and as regulates the hours of work and the rate of wages as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the thirteenth year of King George the Third, intituled "An Act to empower the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufacture within their respective Jurisdictions," as relates to settling, regulating, ordering and declaring the wages and prices of work, and the notification thereof, and makes it an offence to deviate from such settlement, regulation, order and declaration, or to ask, receive or take more or less wages or larger or less prices than shall be so settled, or to enter into combinations, or for that purpose to decoy or solicit, or to assemble, as therein mentioned and as relates to the detection of such offences, and as makes it an offence to retain or employ journeymen weavers, out of the limits therein mentioned; or to give, allow or pay, or cause to be given, allowed or paid, more or less wages than shall be settled, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the seventeenth year of King George the Third, intituled 17 G. 3, c. 55, "An Act for the better regulating the Hat Manufactory," as relates to the keeping up, acting in, making, entering into, signing, sealing or being knowingly concerned in the contracts, covenants or agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules or orders of the clubs, societies or combinations therein mentioned, or the presuming or attempt

13 G. 3 c. 68, $1 to 3 [this be wholly re

act appears to

pealed by 5

G. 4, c. 66].

§ 3.4.

ing to put the agreements, bye laws, ordinances, rules or orders in execution, or to the attending meetings, clubs, societies or combinations, or to the summoning, giving notice to or calling upon, collecting, demanding or receiving, persuading, enticing or inveigling, or endeavouring to persuade, entice or inveigle, paying money, making or entering into subscriptions or contributions as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act, 19 and 20 G. 3, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the nineteenth

c. 19 (I.) in part.

and twentieth years of King George the Third, intituled "An Act to prevent Combinations, and for the further Encouragement of Trade," as declares that combinations in trade are public nuisances, and that the acts therein enumerated shall be considered as evidences of unlawful combinations, and sufficient for the conviction of any person who shall be guilty of the same, and as avoids rules, bye laws and regulations contrary to its provisions, and oaths for obeying or executing the same, and as provides for the case of an act of combination for which no specific punishment is pointed out, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the nineteenth and Twentieth years of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the better regulation of the Silk Manufacture," as relates to the wages and prices for work, to combinations to raise wages, and the decoying or soliciting journeymen weavers, as therein mentioned; also so much of a certain other act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth years of King George the 19 and 20 G. 3, Third, intituled "An Act for regulating the curing and

19 and 20 G. 3, c. 24 (I.) in part.

c. 36 (I.) in

part.

25 G. 3, c. 48 (I.) in part.

preparing Provisions, and for preventing Combinations among the several Tradesmen and other Persons employed in making up such Provisions, and for regulating the Butter Trade in the City of Dublin, and for other Purposes therein mentioned," as relates to summoning persons to appear at meetings and assemblies, and as relates to administering oaths or declarations, to the issuing and delivering of messages, tickets, certificates, tokens, advertisements or writings, to making or joining in making rules, orders, agreements and regulations, as therein mentioned, and as relates to taking oaths, or entering into combinations or agreements to ascertain or fix the price of wages, or of labour or workmanship, or to make any rule, order, agreement or regulation, and to taking oaths, and entering into combinations and agreements not to work for a particular person, as therein mentioned, and as relates to the fixing of wages; also so much of a certain other act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the twenty fifth year of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for granting the Sums of Twenty thousand Pounds, Five thousand Pounds and Four thousand Pounds, to certain Trustees, and for pro