G. Vorschlag von Fielden, betr, Einigungsämter. 705 
for the purposes of this Act, determine the lowest wages to be paid to 
the handloom weaver for each of such descriptions of manufacture in each 
of the said parishes, ete., from whence the returns have been sent, That 
where in any township, etc., the number of manufacturers making one- 
half of any description of cloth there made !on handlooms shall only 
amount to two, the medium wages paid by the two shall be taken to be 
the average wages for such township, etc, and where in any township 
there is only one making such half, the wages of such manufacturer shall 
be taken to be the average for that township. That such average wages 
having been ascertained, as aforesaid, His Majesty’s Government, or such 
person as they may authorize, shall, by a communication to be made to 
every manufacturer, or to the agent of every manufacturer who. has the 
giving out of work, through the medium of the churchwarden, ete., in such 
parish or township as the returns were sent from, direct and require 
that the said average wages shall be the lowest wages that shall be paid 
by any manufacturer, or by any agent of any manufacturer, in such parish 
township, ete., during the next three months, and for each and every 
of the sorts of work that were returned in the schedules as being there 
wove upon handlooms; and the churchwarden, etc., shall sell printed lists 
or tables, signed by him, of the wages so required and directed to be 
paid, to every weaver applying for the same, and lists or tables of the 
lowest wages to be paid for every description of manufacture on hand- 
looms in every township, comprised in the returns, shall be published 
in the London Gazette, by order of His Majesty’s Government, or the 
person whom they may authorize, every three months, immediately after 
the averages have been ascertained and directed ‚to be paid, as abovesaid. 
That at the end of three months from the time when the lowest wages 
shall have been determined as aforesaid, and shall have been directed to 
be paid, and at the end of every succeeding three months, during the 
sontinuance of this Act, the average wages for each sort of work shall 
be ascertained, and the payment of such average wages enjoined on every 
manufacturer, or the agent of every manufacturer, and lists or tables of the 
wages required to be paid circulated among the weavers, and published in 
;he London Gazette, in manner abovesaid. "That to prevent evasions and 
infractions ofthis Act from alterations in the length of the web, piece or 
zut, the fineness of the reed, the counts of the yarn, the number of shoots 
in the inch or otherwise, between the times of taking the averages, and 
with an intent to evade paying the wages directed by this Act to be paid, 
and to determine disputes relating thereto between the manufacturers, or 
their agents, and their handlooms weavers, be it further enacted, that 
from and after the time when the lowest rate of wages to be paid shall 
have been once directed as aforesaid, if any dispute shall arise between 
any manufacturer and any handloom weaver, touching anything required 
to be done or observed by virtue of this Act, the party supposed to be 
Held, Soc. Gesch. Enel. 45