public place in the prison, on forfeiture of 40s. to be levied by warrant of one justice, on conviction by the oath of one witness; justice may demand a sight of such clauses, and if not forthwith shewn fair and legible, he may immediately convict. s. 16. and if conviction on view, the whole penalty goes to the poor of the gaol, otherwise half to the informer.

Gaolers are not to be licensed to sell ale, wine, or other liquors. s. 20. and for suffering tippling or gaming in the prison, they shall forfeit £10. for each offence, to be recovered by distress, by warrant of two justices; in default of distress, commitment for not exceeding three months, unless the penalty and costs are sooner paid. s. 22.

By 52 Geo. III. c. 160, one justice of the division wherein any gaol not being a county gaol is situate, may order parochial relief to any poor person confined in such gaol under mesne process for debt, not exceeding 6d. per day. s. 1, 2. but overseers may cause such poor person to be examined as to his settlement; and justices may make an order of removal to his last legal settlement, and suspend the same during his confinement. (See title" Poor.")

Justices at their general quarter sessions may appoint a clergyman to perform religious duties in gaols with a salary not exceeding £100. a year, and in houses of correction with a salary not exceeding £50. a year. 55 Geo. III. c. 48, s. 2. Such

clergyman to have a regular license from the Bishop of the diocese. s. 5.

By 55 Geo. III. c. 50, all fees or gratuities payable in gaols for the entrance, commitment, or discharge of any prisoner are abolished. s. 1. and justices of the peace at their general quarter sessions may make allowances to gaoler in salary, or other compensation in lieu of such fees. s. 2. such allowance to be paid out of the county rate. s. 3. and no fees are in future to be paid by prisoners to clerks of the court, clerks of assize, or their deputies. s. 5. The operation of this act not to extend to the King's-Bench Prison, Fleet, Marshalsea, and Palace Court. s. 14.

(GARDEN. See "Wood and Turnips.")

GLOVES.

A penalty of £200. is incurred for selling or concealing foreign leather gloves, to be recovered by action, unless seizure is made out of the limits of the bills of mortality, and not exceeding £20. value; then two justices may hear and determine the same: half the penalty to the informer. 6 Geo. III. c. 19. and by 50 Geo. III. c. 55, s. 3, two-thirds of the produce of the sale of such prohibited gloves shall be paid to the officer who shall seize them, exclusive of the penalty.

(GOOD BEHAVIOUR. See " Surety.")

GUNPOWDER.

By 12 Geo. III. c. 61, no new mill is to be erected without license from the quarter sessions, and no pestle mill to be used under the penalty of 2s. per lb. and forfeiture of the gunpowder to be made thereby.

Gunpowder not to be made except in licensed places, under the like penalty; and no person to manufacture or dry more than 40lb. at one time, except at Battle and other places in Sussex, under the like penalty.

Magazine or storehouse to be kept remote from the mill, under £25. penalty per month for not having one so situated, and £5. for not removing powder to the storehouse, unless prevented by bad weather. s. 6, 7.

Keeping charcoal within twenty yards of the mill, incurs a penalty of £5. per week. s. 8.

A person being a dealer shall not keep more than 200lb. of gunpowder, and not being a dealer more than 50lb. in any house, mill, &c. in London or Westminster, or within three miles thereof; or within any other city, borough, or market town, or within one mile thereof; or within two miles of any royal palace, or half a mile of any parish church, on pain of forfeiting the gunpowder, and 2s. for every pound above the allowed quantity. s. 11. but any quantity not exceeding 300lb. may be kept for

the use of any colliery or mine, so that it is within two hundred yards of such colliery, &c.

No person to carry more than twenty-five barrels of gunpowder by land, or two hundred barrels by water; the barrels are not to be hooped with iron, and each barrel not to contain more than 100lb. or in any other than in a tilted waggon, or close decked vessel, under penalty of a forfeiture of the gunpowder, s. 18.

Permitting persons to smoke, or to carry combustible matter in any vessel loaded with gunpowder, incurs a penalty of £5. s. 20. delaying the carriage of gunpowder, except for the purposes of loading and unloading, and then only eighteen hours, to forfeit £10. s. 21.-Justices may search, on reasonable cause assigned on oath, any house, mill, &c. in which gunpowder is suspected to be made, and such powder may be seized and removed to a proper place; if any in carriage, &c. the same may be used in the conveyance of it for twenty-four hours, on recompensing the owner. Such recompense to be settled by the justices who hear the complaint.

All penalties to be recovered before two justices, on the oath of one witness, or by confession; one moiety to be paid to the King, and the other to the informer; if the penalty is pecuniary, it may be levied by distress, and in default, imprisonment for not more than six, nor less than three months. s. 26. prosecution to be commenced within

fourteen days after commission of the offence or seizure. s. 27.

By 54 Geo. III. c. 152, so much of the act 12 Geo. III. c. 61, as prohibits the loading, taking in, carrying or conveying in any cart, waggon or other land carriage laden with gunpowder, or in any barge, boat, or other vessel laden with gunpowder on any river (except in the case of vessels laden with gunpowder for importation from, or exportation to places beyond sea, or going coastwise), with any other lading of any kind whatsoever, shall be and is by this act repealed. s. 1. i

(HACKNEY COACHES. See " Post and Stage Coaches."

HATS.

Retailers of hats to take out a license from the Stamp Office, and to pay for the same 40s. if trading within the bills of mortality, and 5s. elsewhere, under a penalty of £50, 24 Geo. III. c. 51. such licensed person to cause the words "Dealer in Hats by Retail," to be put over the door or in front of his shop, under penalty of 40s. for every hat sold without affixing such notice. s. 5. unlicensed persons putting up such words to forfeit £50. s. 6.

By 51 Geo. III. c. 70, the duties on hats are repealed.