For the second offense,
he shall be sent to hard labor in a House of Correction for 14-30
days. A person who buys or receives or takes in pawn such goods
shall suffer the same penalties. Justices of the Peace may issue
warrants to search houses and buildings in the daytime if there is
"just cause to suspect" such goods therein based upon information
given to him under oath.
Anyone employed in the working up of woolen, linen, fustian,
cotton, or iron manufacture who embezzles or purloins any
materials for their work shall forfeit double the value of the
damages done and anyone convicted thereof may be put into the
House of Correction until he pays, or if he can't pay, to be
publicly whipped and kept at hard labor for no more than 14 days.
Persons convicted of buying or receiving such materials shall
suffer like penalties and forfeitures as one convicted of
embezzling or purloining such materials. Laborers employed in such
manufacture must be paid in coin and not in cloth, victuals, or
commodities in lieu thereof. Leatherworkers were added with a
penalty of up to double the value. Later this statute was amended
to include a penalty for the second offense of forfeiture of four
times the value, or else hard labor at a House of Correction for
1-3 months and whipping once or more in the market town. Like
penalties were given for buyers of such material knowing it to be
false.
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