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1779 235 (1779)

handle is hein.ssl/sspa0212 and id is 1 raw text is: S8O E P h REED, Efq. Prefident. 235 1779. of th Common. wWa~b. L A W S Enadted in the firft fitting of the fourth general affembly of the commonwealth of Pennflvania, which met at Phila-. delphia, on Monday, the twenty fifth day of Oc7ober, in the year of our Lord 1779. C H A P T E R CXXXII. ,In A C r for regulating chtnney Jweepers withbi the city 0/ Philadelphia, the dilIridI of' Southwark, and the townJh/ip ol the Northern Liberties of' the city of Philadpbia. SECTION I. HTHE REAS the hou fes and efla(',s of the vrcamble. V inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, the diflri& of Southwark, and the townfhip of the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, are frequently endan- gcred by chimnies taking fire, and blazing out at the top; and great complaints have been made for want of a proper regulation among thofe who undertake the fweeping of chimnies : For renmedy whereof, SECT. 2. Be it tberefbre enaited, and it is hereby enaCled, No perfluo by the reprefentatives of tbefreemen of the commonwealth of to fo1Iow Penqglvania, in general a//embly #et, and by the authority of fwcphing the lame, That no perfon or perfons from and after the the city, &C. unlels tenth day of December ncxt, fall follow the bufinefs or lie regiftler occupation of a chimney fweeper, either by him[W, his iiinir rfr- frrvants, negroes, or others, within the city of Philadel- vants, &C. phia, the diflriL of Southwark, or the townhip of the Northern Liberties aforefaid, without having filrfi made application to the officer herein after direed to be ap- pointed, and having regiftered, or caufed to be regiftered, his or their name or names, and the name or names of his or