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Penalty on persons agreeing to pay or paying workmen, &c. wholly or partly in spirits.
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64. If any person in Ireland shall agree to pay or shall pay any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, or other person employed by or working under him, or her, or under his or her direction, so much money for wages, or any part thereof, which shall be ordinarily and usually paid for the work which such journeyman, servant, labourer, or other person shall be employed in, or shall agree to pay or shall pay such wages partly in money and partly in or by spirituous liquors, or shall set off, stop, or deduct all or any part of the wages or hire due to any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, for any spirituous liquors delivered or sold to or drank by him or her, every such person so offending shall for every such offence, upon being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace, forfeit the sum of forty shillings British currency; and every person giving or procuring credit to be given for spirituous liquors sold or drank as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of five pounds British currency.
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