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Persons convicted of pawning or embezzling any of the materials or tools herein particularized to forfeit the full value of the same with costs.
Application of forfeiture.
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2. If any weaver, sewer, or any other person whatsoever, instrusted for the purpose of manufacture, or for any special purpose connected with manufacture, with any linen, hempen, cotton, silk, or woollen yarns, or any two or more of these materials mixed with each other, or any cloths made of any one or any mixture of these materials, or tools or apparatus for manufacturing the same, shall sell, pawn, purloin, embezzle, secrete, exchange, or otherwise fraudulently dispose of the same or any part thereof, he shall, upon being thereof lawfully convicted by the oath of the owner of such cloths or materials, or of any other credible witness or witnesses, before a court of petty sessions, or of quarter sessions, be liable to forfeit the full value of the same, with such costs and penalty as shall not together exceed five pounds, as the court before which the conviction shall take place shall judge to be most proper; and every such forfeiture and penalty shall be applied, under the direction of the court before which the conviction shall be, in manner following; (that is to say,) in the first place, the expences of the prosecution shall be thereout defrayed, and then such satisfaction shall be made thereout to the party injured as the said court shall think proper, and the remainder, if any, shall be applied in the same manner as any other penalty under this Act; and in default of the immediate payment, on conviction, of such forfeiture and penalty, the said person so convicted shall be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction, and there kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding two months, unless the amount of such forfeiture and penalty and costs be sooner paid.
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