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Masters refusing to pay wages to workmen when due may be summoned before a court of petty sessions, &c.
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22. If any manufacturer or agent employing or retaining any weaver or person shall not from time to time, on the regular appointed days and hours of attendance, pay and discharge all wages and hire as the same shall become due to any such weaver or person, such weaver or person may summon such manufacturer or agent before a court of petty sessions; and the justices presiding may hear and determine such complaint, and order immediate payment of the sum found due, together with costs for loss of time, and of recovering the same, and in default of immediate payment shall issue their warrant to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of said manufacturer or agent; and the said justices, if they shall think fit, may also, by order in writing, authorize such weaver or person to return his work unfinished, in which case such weaver or person shall not be liable to the penalties awarded by this Act.
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