A. Lehrlinge. 
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no weaver’s child shall be admitted to work as a journeyman till he is 
twenty years of age, except he has served a seven years apprenticeship to 
some other silk weaver; and that all eldest sons of weavers, who are 
put under a seven years indenture to any other trade, shall forfeit their 
right to exercise the silk weaving branch. 
V. — That if any undertaker shall endeavour to entice or persuade 
any apprentice from his or her master either by direct or indirect means, 
and it be fully proved against him, such undertaker shall be liable to 
such penalty as the men appointed for that purpose may deem most 
necessary; and if such determination be not acquiesced to by such under- 
taker, the same to be recovered by dint of application to his employer. 
VI. — The Trade, even willing to show every lenity in their power, do 
hereby certify, that all boys and girls, who have been employed under the deno- 
mination of apprentices without indentiure with any undertaker, shall from the 
ratification of these articles be allowed one month, either to be bound upon 
an indenture for seven years within twenty-eight days after, and a note of 
hand given by the men appointed for that purpose, for the time, they have 
already served, or such who objects or neglects to be bound within the 
twenty-eight days specified shall be expelled from the trade, nor shall 
they ever be considered as belonging to the branch of silk weaving on 
any account whatever; and that such and all other indentures shall be 
brought to the men appointed the next sitting after such binding, in order 
‘hat the name of every apprentice may be registered in a book kept for 
that purpose. — 
VII. — That every undertaker shall have the decided prerogative 
of holding the indentures of any boy or girl he may have bound to him 
in the business of silk weaving, owing to the many great disadvantages 
masters have laboured under when held by a third person, or if not ag- 
reed to by the parents or any other person in their stead, on behalf of 
the intended apprentice, such boy or girl shall not be admitted to the 
business. 
VII — That if any person or persons shall break any one of 
these articles, so as to cause a meeting of the representatives, or of the 
shop for which he is employed, such person or persons shall pay or de- 
fray the expense of such meeting out of his own pocket, to be recovered, 
as in the fifth article, 
IX. — That if any undertaker shall knowingly and wittingly em- 
ploy any journeyman and journeywoman, or apprentice, who have ever 
been known to embezzle any part of the property intrusted to their care, 
or to the care of any undertaker with whom they may have at any time 
been working or otherwise from any other person or persons, such un- 
Jertaker shall immediately on receiving a note from the men appointed 
for that purpose, put such persons from his or her service or report shall 
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