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Penalty for employing a journeyman without a discharge from his last employer.
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LII. And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall hire or employ any journeyman, artificer, or tradesman, who does not produce to said person or persons at the time of such hiring or employment, a written discharge under the hand of the person by whom such artificer or tradesman had been last employed, every such person so offending shall, for every such offence, being thereof convicted on a summary hearing 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 twenty pounds, 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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