A. D, 1709* Anno o6lavo Ann^ Reglnaj. C. 19. 417 tue of this Act; that then and in every fuch Cafe, it fhall and may be lawful to and for fuch Lord Mayor, raayfeizeand Alderman or Aldermen, Chief Magiftrate or Magiftrates, JuHices or Judice of the Peace, to feize and l'™^.^ '"*'•' - take the Bread fo found, and caufe the fame to be forthwith ^iven and diftributed to the Poor of the Pa- rifti where fuch Seizure fhall be made ; and if any Baker or Seller of Bread, or other Perfon or Perfons, Penalty on Ba- fhall not permit or fuft'er fuch Search or Seizure to be made, or fhall oppofe, hinder or refill: the fame, he ker/&c. oppo- or they fo doing, fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit the Sum of forty Shillings to the Informer or Infor- ^ng fuch Search, mers, to be had and recovered in the fummary Manner and Form herein before-mentioned. IX. And it is hereby further ena£tcd. That if any Adlion or Suit (hall be commenced or brought againft j^ ^^.^ any Mayor, Chief Magiflrate, Juftice of Peace, Conftable or any other Officer or Perfon whatfoever, for broughrfor the doing or caufing to be done, any Thing in Purfuance or Execution of this Aft, or relating thereunto, the Eiscution of Defendant in fuch Action or Suit may plead the General Iffue, and give the fpecial Matter in fCvidence ; this Aa, Defen- and if the Plaintiff be nonfuited, or difcontinue his Action, or a Verdi£i: be given for the Defendant, or "^^""^ ""^J p'"'^ - Judgment be otherwife given for the Defendant, every fuch Defendant fhall have Double Coifs. j^^^ ^"^ and fliall have Double Cofts, X. Provided always. That this Aft, nor anything therein contained, fhall extend to prejudice any This Aa (hall Right or Cuftom of the City oi London, or the Practice there ufed, or of the Lord or Lords of any Leet, not prejudice the to fet, enquire and punilh the Breach of Affize of Bread within their refpeftive Leets or Views of Frank- ^i'^^ "f L nd pledge, nor of the Clerk or Clerks of the Market. ^,j.^ °" ""' XI. Provided neverthelefs. That no Perfon punifhed by this Adt, fhall be for the fame OfFence profe- Petfons punifhed cuted by any other Law, Statute, Ufage or Cuflom whatfoever. by this Aft fljall 'XII. And whereas there have been great Abufes in aflizing of Bread, by the variety of Bufhels and °'" ^^ P"*"^"' ' other Meafures ufed in different Places, and though to redtify fuch Abufes, feveral good Laws have been "a^,, *^^"^ ° ' made purfuant to the great Charter, That there fhall be but one Meafure to be ufed throughout all the ' ' Realm, particularly one Aft made in the two and twentieth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles "^^^ ^^ ""^^^
- ■ the Second, intituled, Jn ASl for afcertaining the Meafures of Corn and Salt, and another Aft made in the ** * ** '" '
' two and twentieth and three and twentieth Years of King Charles the Second, intituled, An additional ^'^^^'^'^ ■^^'^^ ' As for afcertaining the Meafures of Corn and Salt, yet the ("aid good Laws have not hitherto been obferved ^^^ Car. a. ' as they ought to have been ;' Therefore for the better and ftrifter Obfervation of the fame, all Juflices of the Peace, Conftables arid other Officers, are hereby ftriftly commanded and required to fee the faid fe- veral Acts put in due Execution, and all Juftices of AfTize, and Juftices of the Peace, are in their feveral to be put in Exe. and refpective Charges at their Affizes or SefTions of the Peace, to enforce and prefs the Execution of the ""on, and faid Laws, and to ufe all legal Methods to make the faid Laws, and alfo this prefent Act, tsi be effectu- ii've^ihem'i'n '° ally practifed and obferved. Charge. XIII. Provided always. That neither this Act, nor any thing therein contained, fhall extend or be con- This Aa fliall ftrued to extend to prejudice the ancient Right or Cuftom of the two Univerfities of Oxford and Cambridge not prejudice the or either of them, or their Clerks of the Market, or the Practice within the feveral Jurifdictions there Rights of either ufed, to fet, afcertain and appoint the AfTize and Weight of all Sorts of Bread to be fold or expofed to Univerfity. Sale, within their feveral Jurifdiftions ; but that they fhall and may feverally and refpeftively, from time to time, as there fhall be occafion, fet, afcertain and appoint, withm their feveral and refpeftive Jurifdic- tions, the AlTize and Weight of all Sorts of Bread to be fold or expofed to Sale, by any Baker or other Perfon whatfoever, within the Limits of their feveral Jurifdictions, and fhall and may enquire and punifti the Breach thereof, as fully and freely in all Refpects as they ufed to do, as if this Act had never been had or made ; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithftanding. XIV. Provided always, That this Act fliall continue for three Years, and from thence to the End of To continue for the next Seffion of Parliament, and no longer. 3 Years, &c. [Continued by i Geo. i. flat. 2. cap. 26. feet. 4. with fome Alterations. Farther Pn-ui- Continued by 5 Geo. i. cap. 25. for five Years. ~ ftomrelating hen. Continued by 10 Geo. i. cap. 17. for feven Years, ^c. ta^iGeo.z. And farther continued by 3 Geo. 2. c. 29. feet. i. until March 1738. '^- *9- zzGa.z, By 12 Geo. c. 13. and amended ; and by 22 Geo. 2. c. 46. to 24 June 1757. and to the End of "^^ '^" the next SelTion and amended.] CAP. XIX. An Ad for the Encouragement of Learning, by vefting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchafers of fuch Copies, during the Times therein mentioned. ' WJ H E R E A S Printers, Bookfellers and other Perfons have of late frequently taken the Liberty of ' W printing, reprinting and publifliing, or caufing to be printed, reprinted and publifhed. Books and ' other Writings, without the Confent of the Authors or Proprietors of fuch Books and Writings, to the ' their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :' For preventing therefore fuch Praftices for the future, and for the Encouragement of learned Men to compofe and write ufeful Books ; may it pleafe your Majefty, that it may be enafted, and be it enafted by the Queen's mofl Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- After 10 April mens, in this preient Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That from and after the ^7^°- the Au- tenth Day of April one thoufand feven hundred and ten, the Author of any Book or Books already print- *^°" °^ ^.°° ed, who hath not transferred to any other the Copy or Copies of fuch Book or Books, Share or Shares wh"have"n"ot ttansferaed their Rights, and the Bookfellers, &c. who have purchafed Copies, ihall have the fo)e Right of printing them for the Term of 21 Years • Vol.. IV. H b h thereof
