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EFFECT OF TAXES

"In winding, threading, &c., children and young women, 5s.; irregular work, according to the progress of machines.

"In embroidery; children, seven years old and upwards, 1s. to 3s.; work ten to twelve hours; women, if regularly at work, 5s. to 7s. 6d.; twelve to fourteen hours.

"As an example of the effect of the wages of lace embroidery, &c. it may be observed, it is often the case that a stocking weaver in a country village will earn only 7s. a week, and his wife and children 7s. to 14s. more at the embroidery frame."

(430.) The principal part of the hand-machines employed in the bobbin-net manufacture are worked in shops, forming part of, or attached to, private houses. The subjoined list will show the kinds of machinery employed, and classes of persons to whom it belongs.

Bobbin-net Machinery now at work in the Kingdom.
Hand Levers 6-quarter 500 Hand Circulars 6-quarter 100
7-quarter 200
8-quarter 300 7-quarter 300
10-quarter 300 8-quarter 400
12-quarter 30 9-quarter 100
16-quarter 20 10-quarter 300
20-quarter 1 12-quarter 100
Hand Rotary 10-quarter 50 Hand Traverse, Pusher,
Straight Bolt, &c.,
averaging 5 quarters
12-quarter 50
—— 750
1451 ——
2050
Total hand machines . . 3501 carried over