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Penalty for refusing to give a written discharge at the time of discharging a journeyman.
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LIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person who shall have employed any such journeyman, artificer, or tradesman, shall, at the time of discharging him, refuse to give him such written discharge on the same being demanded of him, every person so offending shall, for every such offence, being thereof duly convicted before the said mayor, by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, (which oath or oaths the said mayor is hereby empowered to administer), or by the confession of the party, forfeit any sum not exceeding the sum of twenty pounds, according to the discretion of the said mayor, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of said mayor.
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