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Rates, fares, and prices to be paid to owners and masters, and to lighter men, shall be regulated as herein;
also wages of artificers and labourers,
prices may be raised or diminished, always regarding the prices of the necessaries of life.
persons who take more than regulated prices may be imprisoned.
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L. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the court of general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for said city, and county of said city, (the recorder of said city or his deputy being present, from time to time, at each and every, or any sessions to be so holden from and after the passing of this act, or at any adjournment thereof, to ascertain, order, and regulate the several rates, fares and prices to be paid to the said owners and masters respectively, and to the lightermen and others employed in the said lighters, boats, and other vessels, as well for the freight for hire thereof as for the wages of the said masters, lightermen, and other persons so employed therein, and in like manner at each and every, or any sessions, from time to time to be so holden, or any adjournment thereof, to ascertain, order, and regulate the wages to be paid to every mason, carpenter, slator, cooper, and every artificer and labourer whatsoever, whether working by the day, or otherwise, for hire in the said city, and from time to time, either to raise or to diminish all such rates, fares, prices, and wages, as to the said court in its discretion shall seem meet, always having regard to the prices which the necessaries of life shall then bear, and that every such order, adjustment, and regulation, shall be in force until a new order, adjustment, and regulation shall be made by such court of sessions, or at some adjournment thereof, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding; and that the said owners and masters respectively of the lighters, boats, and vessels aforesaid, and the said lightermen, and all others employed therein, and also all and every the tradesmen, artificers, and labourers herein before mentioned, shall take and receive such sums of money to be so ordered, ascertained, and regulated, and no more, and shall work and labour accordingly pursuant to the true meaning of this act, on pain of being imprisoned at the discretion of the said court of quarter sessions, for any time not exceeding three months, upon conviction of the offender, on a summary hearing at the said court of quarter sessions, or any adjournment thereof, by the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, which oath the said court is hereby authorized to administer, or by the confession of the offender.
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