By statute 28 George III. all former statutes respecting the exportation of wool and sheep are repealed, and nume rous restrictions are consolidated in that statute. By this act, if any person shall send or receive any sheep on board any vessel, to be carried out of the kingdom, such vessel shall be' forfeited, and the person so offending shall forfeit 31. for every sheep, and suffer solitary imprison ment for three months. But wether sheep, by a licence from the collector of the customs, may be taken on board, for the use of the ship's company ; and every person who shall export any wool, or woollen articles slightly made up, so as easily to be reduced again to wool, or any fuller's earth, or tobacco-pipe clay ; and every carrier, ship owner, command er, mariner, or other person, who shall knowingly assist in exporting, or attempt ing to export, these articles, shall forfeit 3s. for every pound weight, or the sum of 501. in the whole, at the election of the prosecutor, and shall also suffer solitary imprisonment for three months. But
wool may be carried coastwise, upon being duly entered, and security being given, according to the directions of the statute, to the officer of the port from whence the same shall be conveyed ; and the owners of sheep within five miles of the sea, and ten miles in Kent and Sussex, cannot remove the wool, without giving notice to the officer of the nearest port, as directed by the statute.
Wool. comber& By 35 George III., c. 124, all those who have served an ap prenticeship to the trade of a wool comb. er, or who are by law entitled to exercise the same, and also their wives and chil dren, may set up and exercise such trade, or any other trade or business they are apt and able for, in any town or place within this kingdom, without any moles tation ; nor shall such wool combers, their wives or children, while they exer cise such trades, be removeable from such place to their last legal settlement, till they shall actually become chargeable to such parish.