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be made of such undertaker to his employer, nor shall the same person 
or persons be employed either in Macclesfield or its vicinity.“ — 
Signed by the Master Manufacturers of the Silk Weaving Branch, 
(Folgen die Namen.) 
Signed by the chosen Representatives and Delegates of the Silk 
Weaving Branch. 
(Folgen die Namen.) 
March 1812. — That all Apprentices, who may hereafter leave their 
master, shall be put under a new indenture to their new master, or their 
servitude will not be considered legal; and to prevent the frequent dispu- 
tes occasioned by the destruction of indentures under various pretences, 
no undertaker shall consent to destroy one, unless with the advice of the 
representatives of the trade. If any thing should occur, that is not posi- 
tively specified in the above rules, it shall be left to the diseretion of the 
representatives of the trade. — 
B. 
Zu Seite 429, Anmerkung 1. 
Resolutionen der Uhrmacher. 
Report on the petitions of watchmakers, 1817. 
|. That the obvious intention of our ancestors, in enacting the statute 
of the 5. Elizabeth, cap. 4, was to produce and maintain a competent 
number and perpetual succesion of masters and journeymen, of prac- 
tical experience, to promote, secure, and render permanent the pro- 
sperity of the national arts and manufactures, honestly wrought by 
their ability and talents, inculcated by a mechanical education, called 
® seven years’ apprenticeship; whereby according to the memorable 
words of the statute itself „it will come to pass, that the same law 
'being duly executed) should banish idleness, advance husbandry, 
and. yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and 
in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages.‘“ 
That it is by apprenticeships, that the practitioners in the Arts and 
Manufactures attain the high degree of perfection, whereby British 
productions have arrived at the great estimation in which they were 
heretofore held in foreign markets. 
That the apprenticed artizans have, collectively and individually, an 
unquestionable right to exspect the most extended protection from the 
Legislature, in the quiet and exclusive use and enjoyment of their 
aavann] and resnective arts and trades, which the law has already 
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