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Cloths, &c. intrusted for manufacturing not liable to seizure for rent or any other debt of the worker.
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21. If any landlord or other person shall seize, carry off, or sell, by virtue of any distress warrant, execution, or other proceeding for rent in arrear or money due or alleged to be due by a weaver or worker, or on any other account whatever, any cloths, yarns, materials, or tools or apparatus for manufacturing the same, belonging to a manufacturer or agent, and intrusted by him to such weaver or worker for the purpose of manufacture, or any tools or apparatus actually employed in manufacturing such cloths or yarns, and shall refuse to restore possession of all such property to such manufacturer or agent when demanded by him, or some person duly authorized by him, on such manufacturer or agent tendering security for the return of such tools or apparatus as may not belong to him as soon as the work shall be finished, any justice of the peace, upon complaint on oath before him, shall, by notice under his hand, require such landlord or other person to restore possession of all such property so seized and carried off or sold, or the full value thereof, and in case of refusal shall issue his warrant to levy, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such landlord or person, the full value of the property intrusted, or, if returned without the necessary apparatus, the amount of such injury or damage as it may have sustained, together with all costs of recovering and levying the same.
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