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or where offence committed, may hear and determine the same within three calendar months; and on proof on oath of one witness, or by confession, may levy by distress and sale the pecuniary penalty (and costs, in his discretion,) unless goods redeemed in five days, inclusive of the day of seizure; half the penalty to the informer and half to the poor: if no distress, offender to be committed to the gaol where information laid, for any time not exceeding three calendar months, unless penalty and costs sooner paid. s. 8, 14, 15, and 16.

Appeal allowed to the next sessions, whose decision is final. s. 9.

Justices may mitigate penalties not less than half, but where the same shall be less than £40. then not below £20. s. 10.

No conviction to be set aside for want of form, or through mistake of facts alleged, if proved. s. 11, 12.

Penalty for witnesses not appearing or refusing to be sworn, £5. s. 13.

Offenders discovering their employers to two justices, before information, not to be liable to penalties. s. 18.

Manufacturer proving that he ordered buttons to be gilt, as required by the act, and gave sufficient gold for that purpose, not to be liable to penalties. s. 19.

This act not to extend to buttons made of gold, silver, tin, pewter, lead, or mixtures of lead or iron

tinned, or of Bath or white metal, or any metals inlaid with steel, or buttons plated upon shells. s. 20.-Information or action to be brought within three calendar months.

Information for exposing to Sale Metal Buttons marked "Gilt " which were not so, under Stat. 36 Geo. III c. 60.

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to wit. Be it remembered, That on the day of in the year of our Lord 1817, at the parish of in the said county, A. B. of the parish of in the said county, cometh before us W. S. and S. P. Esquires, two of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, and as well for himself as the poor of the parish of aforesaid in the

county aforesaid, exhibiteth unto us an information and complaint, and thereby giveth us the said justices to understand and be informed, that after the 1st day of August, 1796, and within the space of three calendar months last past, to wit, on the day of 1817, at the parish of in the county aforesaid, C. D. of the parish of aforesaid, a manufacturer and maker of metal buttons, did unlawfully and fraudulently put and place, and cause to be put and placed for sale, in and upon certain cards other than pattern cards, divers metal buttons, to wit, - dozen, each and every of the said buttons having then and there marked on the under side thereof a certain word indicating the quality thereof, to wit, the word "GILT," the said metal buttons not then being, nor any or either of them being gilt with gold, he the said C D. then and there well knowing the same metal buttons and each and every of them not to be gilt with gold, contrary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided; by reason whereof, and by force of the statute in that case made and provided, the said C. D. hath for the said offence forfeited the said metal buttons, together with the sum of £— of lawful money of Great Britain; wherefore the said A. B. prays the judgment of us the said justices in the premises, and that the said C, D. may be convicted of the said offence, according to the form of the statute in that case made and provided; and that the said C. D. may be summoned to appear before us the said justices, to answer to the said information and complaint, and make his defence thereto before us.

Conviction thereon.

to wit. Be it remembered, That on the-day of

in the year of our Lord 1817, at

in the county of

on the

A.B. came before us W.S. and S. P. Esquires, two of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, and informed us that C.D. of in the county of day of now last past, did [state the facts as in the Information] whereupon the said C. D. being duly summoned to answer the said charge, appeared before us on the day of —, at in the said county, and having heard the charge contained in the said information, declared he was not guilty of the said offence [or did not appear before us in pursuance of the said Summons], [or did neglect and refuse to make any defence against the said charge], but the same being fully proved before us, on the oath of E. F. a credible witness [or acknowledged and voluntarily confessed the same to be true]; and it manifestly appeared to us that the said C. D. is guilty of the offence charged to him in the said information, we do therefore hereby convict him of the offence aforesaid, and do declare and adjudge that the said C. D. hath forfeited the said buttons, together with the sum of £. of lawful money of Great Britain, for the offence aforesaid, to be distributed as the law directs, according to the statute in that case made and provided.

Given under our hands and seals, &c.

CABBAGES Stealing.-See TURNIPS.

CARDS AND DICE.

No playing cards or dice shall be imported, 10 Ann, c. 19. Selling second-hand cards incurs £20. penalty, by 29 Geo. II. c. 13, s. 10, and £5. per pack, by 16 Geo. III. c. 34.

Cards or dice unstamped, used in any gaminghouse, a penalty of £5. attaches to the seller.

The penalties are not recoverable before a justice, but by action; though a justice, on information on oath, may issue a warrant to seize the tools, &c. for making cards and dice, in any place not legally authorized; and if not replevied in five days, may be sold. 6 Geo. I. e. 21.

CARRIERS.

Justices at the next quarter sessions after Easterday, are to settle the rates of land-carriage of goods, by any common carrier, who is to forfeit £5. for taking more. 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 12.— Waggoners or carriers demanding more than allowed by justices, for carriage to London, or to any place within the bills of mortality, to forfeit £5. to the party grieved. 21 Geo. II. c. 28. to be recovered as by said act 3 William or by distress and sale of his goods by warrant of two justices of Middlesex, Surry, London, or Westminster. s. 3. And waggoner or carrier's name to be written on the carriage, on pain of 20s. Ibid. but by 13 Geo. III. c. 78, the penalty is extended to not more than £5. nor less than 20s.

Carriers travelling with a waggon, horse, &c. on Sunday, to forfeit 20s. on conviction, (within six months), by one justice on view, confession, or oath of two witnesses, to be levied by distress to the use of the poor; but a justice may award any sum, not exceeding one third of the penalty to informer, 3 Car, è. 1.

Information against a common Carrier, for travelling on the Lord's Day.

day of

in the said county,

to wit. Be it remembered, That on the in the year of our Lord 1817, at A.B. of the parish of in the said county [labourer], came personally before me S. P. Esq. one of His Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, and giveth me the said justice to understand and be informed, that on the day of last, the same being the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and within six months last past, one C. D. late of in the said county, common carrier, did travel with his common stage waggon and horses on the King's highway, in the parish of aforesaid in the county aforesaid, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided, whereby the said C. D. hath, for his offence aforesaid, forfeited the sum of 20s.

Exhibited before me,

S. P.

Summons thereon.

To C. D. of.

A. B.

to wit. Whereas complaint and information hath been made before me S. P. Esq. one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, by A. B. of, That you the said C. D. on the day of 1817, being the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, with your horses into and through the parish of in the county aforesaid, did travel, contrary to the statute in that case made and provided. These are therefore to require you personally to appear before me, at

in the said county, on the day of, at the hour of in the noon, to answer to the said complaint and information made by the said A. B. who is likewise or dered to be then and there present to make good the same.Herein fail not.

Given under my hand and seal &c.

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