Fireworks Act 1697

III. Throwing, &c. Fireworks,

Penalty 20s.; and on Non-payment, imprisoned in House of Correction, and kept to hard Labour.

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 throw cast or fire or be aiding or assisting in the throwing casting or firing of any Squibbs Rocketts Serpents or other Fireworks in or into any publick Street House Shopp River Highway Road or Passage That then every Person so offending and being thereof as aforesaid convicted shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Twenty Shillings to the Uses aforesaid And if the Person or Persons so as aforesaid last offending shall not im[m]ediately (upon his her or their being thereof as aforesaid convicted) pay to the said Justice or Justices of the Peace or Chief Magistrate before whom such Conviction shall be as aforesaid made the said Forfeiture or Forfeitures for the Uses aforesaid That then every such Justice or Justices of the Peace or Chiefe Magistrate is and are hereby impowered and required by Warrant under his or their Hands and Seales to co[m]mitt every such Person or Persons so as aforesaid last offending to the House of Correction within the County Division Limit Corporation or Liberty where such Offence as is last menco[i]ed shall be co[m]mitted there to remaine to be sett and kept to hard Labour without Bail or Mainprize for any time not exceeding One Month unlesse such Offender as is last mentioned shall sooner pay such Forfeiture or Forfeitures to the said Justice or Justices of the Peace or Chief Magistrate.