Fireworks Act 1697

II. Making, selling, &c. Fireworks, &c.

on Conviction, by Confession, or Oath of Two Witnesses,; Penalty £5.; Permitting the same to be thrown from Houses, &c.,; Penalty 20s.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons of what Age Sex Degree or Quality soever from and after the said Five and twentieth Day of March shall make or cause to be made or shall sell give or utter or offer or expose to Sale any Squibbs Rocketts Serpents or other Fire-works or any Cases Moulds or other Implements for the making of any such Squibbs Rocketts Serpents or other Fire-works That then every such Person or Persons so offending and being thereof convicted before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the County Limitt Division Corporation Liberty or Cheif Magistrate of the Place where such Offence shall be co[m]mitted either by the Confession of the Party or Parties so offending or the Oath of Two Witnesses (which Oath the said Justice or Justices of Peace or Chiefe Magistrate is and are hereby impowered and required to administer) shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Five pounds And if any Person or Persons whatsoever from and after the said Five and twentieth Day of March shall permitt or suffer any Squibbs Serpents Rocketts or other Fire-works to be cast throwne or fired from out of or in his her or their House or Houses Shopps Dwelling Lodging or Habitation or from out of or in any part thereof or place thereto belonging or adjoyning into any publick Street High-way Road or Passage or any other House or Place whatsoever That then every such Person or Persons so a s aforesaid last offending and being thereof as aforesaid convicted shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Twenty shillings the said several Forfeitures to be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattells of every such Offender by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of the said Justice or Justices of the Peace or Chief Magistrate before whom such Conviction or Convictions shall be as aforesaid made the one halfe of the said Forfeitures to be to the use of the Poor of the Parish where every such Offence shall be co[m]mitted and the other halfe to the use of him or them who shall prosecute and cause such Offender or Offenders to be as aforesaid convicted.