This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...masters unduly dismissing servants are liable to a penalty of 40s., while servants unduly quitting employment shall be imprisoned;" the seventh, "that servants are not to leave a city or parish without a testimonial, and that those who do so without it shall be imprisoned, or if they held a forged one, should be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...masters unduly dismissing servants are liable to a penalty of 40s., while servants unduly quitting employment shall be imprisoned;" the seventh, "that servants are not to leave a city or parish without a testimonial, and that those who do so without it shall be imprisoned, or if they held a forged one, should be whipped." By the ninth clause, "the assessors are to define the hours of work and 1 d. an hour is to be deducted for every default;" by the tenth, "any who struck work were made liable to a month's imprisonment and five pounds fine;" by the eleventh, "the rates of wages were to be fixed by the justices in the Quarter Sessions, certified in Chancery, approved by the Privy Council, and proclaimed by the sheriff; by the thirteenth, ' penalties are put on the givers of higher wages of ten days imprisonment and 5 fine, on the receiver twenty-one days imprisonment, the contract being declared void."--History of Agriculture and Prices, V: 611-613. "They (the Justices) were the last people in the world who should have been intrusted with an operation of such difficulty and complexity as the regulation of wages. They endeavored to do so only at long intervals of time, when they probably talked the matter over with the employers in the district and gave legal sanction to the current rate of wages, which they took as the maximum. Thus the statute would become the instrument of oppression in the hands of unscrupulous employers. They could effectually crush all attempts to secure an advance, if they cared to do so, by legal proceedings against the delinquents, in which they would certainly be supported by the Justices. We may well believe that many employers, themselves ground down by the landlords, or subj...
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