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tdbstrabl os an dc% for- imploying the Manu­ or Oaths of one or more credible Person or faBurers, and incouraging tlie Consumption ofPersons , of any Offence committed contrary Raw , and Mohatt Yarnt hy prohibiting to this Act, to determine the fame, and con­ ihe wearing of Buttons and Button holes madevic t the Offender or Offenders thereof; and ef Cloth, , or other Stuffs. upon Conviction to cause the said Penalties or Forfeitures, upon the Offender or Offenders ROM and after the nine and twentieth refusing to pay the fame on Demand, at such Day of September which shall be in Time or Times as thesaid Justice or Justices F the Year of our Lord one thousand se­ shall appoint, by Warrant or Wartantt under ven hundred and twenty two, it siiall not be his or tbeir Hands and Seals, to be levied by lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever, D stress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels within the Kingdom of Great Britain, to use of such Offender or Offenders, rendring to pr wear on any Clothes, Garments, or Apparel him, her, or them, the Overplus, if any (hall whatsoever, any Buttons or Button holes made be, tbe Charges of such Distress and Sale be­ of or bound with Cloth, Serge, Drugget, Ftize, ing thereout first deducted j and all and every Camblet, or any ., whereof Clothes or the Penalties' and Forfeitures under this Act, - wearing Garments are usually made ; and if shall be distributed and paid in manner fol­ any Person or Persons whatsoever, within the lowing, (that is to fay) one Moiety thereof to Kingdom of Great Britain, shall use or wear him, , or them, on whose Oath or Oaths any Buttons or Button-holes, made of or bound any Person or Persons shall be convicted osany with Cloth, Serge, Drugget, Frize, Camblet, Offence against this Act, and the other Moiety or other Stuff's, as aforelaid, such Person or to the Poor of the Parish wbere such Offence Persons, being thereof lawfully convicted by or Offences shall be committed. the Oath of one or more credible Witness or Provided, that it shall and may be lawful Witnesses, or by-Confession of the Party, shall to or for any Party or Parties agrieved by the forfeit for every Dozen ossuch Buttons or But­ Order, Determination, or Warrant of such Ju­ ton-holes, so used or worn, the Sum of Forty stice or Justices, as aforesaid, to appeal to the Shillings, or in Proportion for every lesser Justices of the Peace at the next General Quantity ossuch Buttons and Button-holes. Quartrr-Scssions, to be holden for the Coun­ For rhe more easy Conviction of Offender* ty, Riding, City, or Place where the said againit this Act, and for the more easy Reco­ Offence or Offences shall have been commit­ very ofthe Penalties and Forfeitures aforesaid, ted, giving eight Days Notice at the least, ot it shall and may be lawful, to and for any one such Appeal to the Prosecutor ot Prosecutors. or more of His Majesty's Justices of tbe Peace All Offences against this Act to be prosceu*- of the County, Riding, City,Town, or Place, ted within one Month after such Offence com­ where any Offence (hall be committed against mitted, and not after. this Act, or where such Offender fliall inha­ Nothing in this Act contained fliall extend bit, to summon the Party or Parties accused, or be construed to extend to any Clothes or and upon his, her, or their Appearance or Wearing Apparel made of . Contempt, to proceed to the Examination of the Matter of Fact, and upon due Proof made, saris* either by Confession of the Party, or the Oath