An act to amend an act, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses committed by persons employed in the manufacture of hats, and in the woollen, linen, fustian, cotton, iron, leather, fur, hemp, flax, mohair, and silk manufactures; and for preventing unlawful combinations of journeymen dyers and journeymen hot pressers, and of all persons employed in the said several manufactures; and for the better payment of their wages.
Great Britain.
London : printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan,
1774.
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo quarto Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XLIV.'.
Imprint from general titlepage.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo quarto. At the Parliament begun .. the tenth day of May, anno Domini 1768, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the thirteenth day of January, 1774; being the seventh session of the thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain.'.
Last word of first line of text: 'Par-'; first word of line below initial: 'Woollen,'; last word of last full line of text: 'Courts'.
Text in black letter.
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