ARTIFICER

One. who 'buys goods in order to reduce them, by his own art or in· dustry, into other forms, and then to sell K them. Lansdale v. Brashear, 3 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 335. One who is actually and personally en• gaged or employed to do work of a mechanical or physic a\ character, not including one who takes contracts for labor to be L performed by others. Ingram v. Barnes, 7 El. & BI. 135; Chawner v. Cummings, 8 Q. B. 321. One who is master o!' his art, and whose employment consists chiefly 1n manual labor. Wharton; Cunning ham. · M [s. 97]