Textile Manufactures (Ireland) Act, 1840

as also persons knowingly selling, pawning, &c. stolen materials or tools.

4. If any person shall sell, pawn, pledge, exchange, or otherwise unlawfully dispose of, or offer to sell, pawn, pledge, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, any such materials, tools, or apparatus as aforesaid, knowing them to have been purloined or embezzled, or received from persons fraudulently disposing thereof, he shall, on conviction, be deemed and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.