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gines, so exported, or attempted to be exported, but of fortypounds, one half to the king, the other to the person whoshall inform or sue for the same. In the same manner, by the14 Geo. 111. chap 71. the exportation to foreign parts, ofany utensils made use of in the cotton, linen, woollen, andsilk manufactures, is prohibited under the penalty, not onlyof the forfeiture of such utensils, but of two hundredpounds to be paid by the person who shall offend in thismanner, and likewise of two hundred pounds to be paid bythe master of the ship who shall knowingly suffer such uten-sils to be loaded onboard his ship.

When such heavy penalties were imposed upon the expor-tation of the dead instruments of trade, it could not well beexpected that the living instrument, the artificer, should beallowed to go free. Accordingly, by the 5 Geo. I. chap. 27.the person who shall be convicted of enticing any artificer of,or in auy of the manufactures of Great Britain, to go into anyforeign parts, in order to practise or teach his trade, is liable forthe first offence to be lined in any sum not exceeding one hun-dred pounds, and to three months’ imprisonment, and until theline shallbepaid; and for the second off ence to be fined in anysum at the discretion of the court, and to imprisonment fortwelve months, and until the fine shall be paid’. By the 23tleo. II. chap. 13. this penalty is increased for the first offenceto five hundred pounds for every artificer so enticed, and totwelve months’ imprisonment, and until the fine shall be paid;and lor the second offence, to one thousand pounds, and totwo years imprisonment, and until the fine shall be paid.

By the former ot those two statutes, upon proof that anyperson has been enticing any artificer, or that any artificerhas promised or contracted to go into foreign parts for thepurposes aforesaid, such artificer may be obliged to give se-curity at the discretion of the court, that he shall not go beyondthe seas, and may be committed to prison until he give suchsecurity.

II any artificer has gone beyond the seas, and is exercisingor teaching his trade in any foreign country, upon warningbeing given to him by any of his majesty’s ministers or con-suls abroad, or by one of his majesty’s secretaries of state forthe time being, if he does not, within six months after suchwarning, return into this realm, and from thenceforth abide^'hI inhabit continually within the same, he is from henceforthdeclared incapable of taking any legacy devised to him within

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