Servants’ Characters Act 1792 (repealed)

1. Introductory Text

2. [1.]. Any person personating a master, &c. or giving a false character to a servant;

3. 2. or asserting that a servant has been hired for a period of time, or in a station;

4. 3. or was discharged at any other time, or had not been hired in any previous service; contrary to the fact;

5. 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;

6. 5. or who having been before in service shall pretend not to have been in such service;

7. 6. shall, on conviction, forfeit 20

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9. 8. Offenders discovering accomplices before information indemnified.

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