Textile Manufactures (Ireland) Act, 1840

Tickets of particulars to be given out with the work and a duplicate or copy to be kept by manufacturer and to be evidence of agreement.

16. With every warp given out by a manufacturer or agent to a weaver to be woven, there shall be delivered a note or ticket, signed by such manufacturer or agent delivering out the same, stating the length, breadth, and particular fabric and denomination of the work to be performed, the number of shots of weft under the glass which is to count out of the loom, the time in which the said work is to be finished and returned, and the price, in sterling money, agreed on for executing each yard imperial standard measure of thirty-six inches of such work in a workmanlike manner; and a duplicate of every such note or ticket, or a copy of the substantial contents of it in a weaving book, shall be made and kept by the manufacturer or agent delivering out the same; which said note or ticket, or (in case of the said note or ticket not being produced by the weaver) which said duplicate or copy of the substantial contents of it in a weaving book, in the event of a dispute between a manufacturer or agent and weaver, shall be evidence of all such matters and things mentioned therein, or respecting the same.