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And be it enacted, That if any Person whosoever intrusted with any Woollen, Worsted, Linen, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, or Silk Materials, for the Purpose of being prepared, worked up, or manufactured, either by himself or by any Person or Persons to be employed by or under him, or by himself jointly with any Person or Persons to be employed with, by, or under him, or for any Purpose or Work connected with Manufacture or incidental thereto, or any Parts, Branches, or Processes thereof, or any Tools or Apparatus for manufacturing the said Materials, shall sell, pawn, purloin, embezzle, secrete, exchange, or otherwise fraudulently dispose of the same Materials, Tools, or Apparatus, or any Part thereof, he shall, upon being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath of the Owner of such Materials, Tools, or Apparatus, or any Part thereof, or of any other credible Witness or Witnesses, before Two or more Justices of the Peace, forfeit the full Value of the same, and also forfeit such Penalty, not exceeding Ten Pounds, together with Costs, as to the said Justices shall seem meet; and every such Forfeiture and Penalty shall be applied, under the Direction of the convicting Justices, in manner following; (that is to say,) in the first place, in making such Satisfaction to the Party injured as the said Justices shall think proper; and the Remainder, if any, shall be applied in the same Manner as is herein-after directed for the Disposal of any other Penalty under this Act; and in default of Payment of such Forfeiture and Penalty, with Costs, immediately on Conviction, or within such Period as the Justices so convicting may direct, the said Justices may issue their Warrant to distrain and sell the Goods and Chattels of the Person so convicted, for the Amount thereof, and Costs ; and the Proceeds of any Distress, after paying the Penalty, Forfeiture, and Costs, and also the Costs of such Distress, shall be paid over to the Person convicted; but if no sufficient Distress shall appear or shall be found whereon to levy the said Penalty, Forfeiture, and Costs, the said Justices may, either immediately or at any Time after such Conviction, commit any Person so convicted to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, to be there imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, as to the said Justices shall seem meet, for any Term not exceeding Three Calendar Months, unless the Amount of such Forfeiture and Penalty, with Costs, or so much thereof as shall not have been paid previously to the Commencement of such Imprisonment, be sooner paid.
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