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Servants' Characters Act 1792 (c.56)
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Introductory Text
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[1.] Any person personating a master, &c. or giving a false character to a servant;
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2. or asserting that a servant has been hired for a period of time, or in a station;
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3. or was discharged at any other time, or had not been hired in any previous service; contrary to the fact;
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4. or any person offering himself as a servant, pretending to have served where he has not served, or with a false certificate, or who shall alter any certificate;
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5. or who having been before in service shall pretend not to have been in such service;
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6. shall, on conviction, forfeit 20l.Persons not paying the penalty with costs, or not giving notice of appeal, &c. may be committed.
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7. . . .
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8. Offenders discovering accomplices before information indemnified.
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