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two Justices of the Peace, under pain of twenty shillings 

 sterling, besides being liable to be obliged to serve as a 

 domestic servant for the space of a year to any person who 

 shall apply to a Justice of the Peace for that purpose, and 

 if any person want a labouring servant, either man or 

 woman, and can discover any person fit for service not 

 engaged who is not following some lawful business, or who 

 has been formerly a domestic servant and who has not got a 

 license to employ him or herself otherways, upon a complaint 

 thereof to any one Jiistice of the Peace any such servant 

 shall be obliged to enter home to such master claiming him 

 or her, or shall be obliged to give security for his or her 

 appearance at the next quarter sessions, to be tried and 

 punished in terms of this Act, according as the Justice before 

 whom he or she is brought shall see cause ; and in case the 

 Justice shall take security for such person's compearance 

 before the Quarter Sessions he shall inform the Procurator- 

 Fiscal thereof that he may prosecute him or her accordingly : 

 and farther, the said Justices enact and ordain that when 

 any servant inclines to remove from his or her present 

 master, he or she shall be bound to give over their master's 

 service three months before the time of removal and that 

 before two witnesses, otherways his or her service is to be 

 continued for the next ensuing year ; as also that the said 

 servant's master is and shall be obliged to accept of his or 

 her service : entertain and pay him or her for the same 

 unless that he can instruct that three months before the 

 term of removal he did discharge and free his said servant 

 from his or her service before two witnesses : and for the 

 encouragement of sei'vants the said Justices ordain that their 

 masters make timeous and punctual payment of their fees ; 

 and if any servant complain to any one Justice of the Peace 

 of their not being punctually and thankfully paid of their 

 fee, the said Justice is empowered to compel the deficient 

 master complained upon to make present and complete 

 payment to the complaining party of what shall be found 

 justly duo, with such reasonable expenses as the said Justice 



