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Amendments Tothill Fields Inclosure Bill
And be it enacted further enacted, it shall and may be lawfu; to & for that as with every such
Governor as aforesaid, as also to and for every other person employ'd and acting
under such Governor in the superintending of the labour
of such Convicts or Prisoners, as also and moreover to and for every
such Prisoner as well during the term of his or her
confinement in the said Penitentiary House as at all
times thereafter may to set up and exercise therein any
trade or business in any part of Great Britain as also
to and for every such Convict or Prisoner at any time after his or her discharge to set up and
exercise any trade or business, or set any other person to work
in any place in Great Britain although neither he or her
nor such other person have been brought up in any
such trade as an Apprentice, any law or Statute shall
contrary thereof notwithstanding: and if any such person as aforesaid
be prosecuted for using such trade in any City Town or Place
he or she may plead the General issue, and shall thereupon [+]
[+] the Verdict pass
for the Defendant
shall moreover
be entitled to
double Costs.
Taken from the Hawkers & Pedlars Act 29.Geo.3.ch.19.
And such persons their Wives and Children or in
the case of females the Husbands shall during the time
of their exercising such trade in any Parish or Place, shall
in that part of Great Britain called England not be removeable therefrom to their respective places of settlement
until they shall become actually chargeable to such
Parish or Place.
Taken as above
Precedents the Hawkers Bill Act as above — also clauses relative
to the Militia, Soldiers, Sailors &c
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