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or security therefor, for more than ten days after the expiration of the two months from the day wherein be last accounted, shall, on conviction thereof, over and above the aforesaid penalty, he held not entitled to distil for six months from and after the day of such convnction, under the penalty of five pounds for each and every day he or those employed by him, shall so distil after such conviction.

XXII. The treasurer shall publish a list of the persons licensed to distil spirituous liquors, in the Royal Gazelle newapaper, once in each and every month, instead of quarterly, as pre- scribed in and by the sixty-fifth section of the hereinbefore recited Act of nineteenth Victoria, chapter one.

XXIII. Any person or persons who shall, after the passing ofthis Act, give to any collector of excise or preventive otlicer, or to any Justice of the Peace in this Island, information of any unlicensed distillation being carried on within this Island, or if any spirituous liquors which have not paid the duty imposed upon the same, by the laws of this Island, and which shall be liable to seizure, such person or persons shall, on the conviction of the parties so carrying on unlicensed distillation, or of the condemnation and sale of any such spirituous liquors which shall have been seized in consequence of the non- payment of the duties payable thereon, be en- titled to receive the half of the fine which shall be imposed on any such distiller, or one-half of the proceeds ofany spirituous liquors which may be condemned and sold as aforesaid.

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XXIV: From and after the passing of this Act instead ofthe credit mentioned in the seven- ty-eigbth section ofthe said recited Act of the nineteenth Victoria, chapter one, to be given for duties on goods, wares and merchandize to the importer thereof, as therein mentioned, the fol- lowing terms of credit for duties shall be given, that is to say: Ifthe said duties shall exceed the sum often pounds, and not amount to more than thirty pounds, a credit of three months shall be given theretbr; and ifthe said duties shall exceed thirty pounds, a credit of six months shall be given for the payment thereof, and no longer time than six months shall in any case be given; and all bonds and rccognizances hereafter to be en- tered into for securing the payment of duties on goods, wares and merchandize ofany kind what- soever, shall bear interest on the amount thereof,

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at the rate ofsix pounds per centan per annum; and such interest shall be computed and paid and payable from the day of the date of such bond or recognizance until the payment. thereof; provided always, that nothing in this or any other Act contained, shall be held or construed to entitle or give any person or persons any right or claim to a longer term of credit for the amount of any bond or recognizance than the time therein mentioned for the payment thereof.

XXV. The warrant of attorney by law re- quired to be taken by the Collectors of Impost, in addition to the recognizances directed to be entered into as security for the payment of duties of impost and excise, shall, as well as the de- feazance thereon to be endorsed, be in the form in the schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B) or in such other form as the Lieutenant Gover- nor, or other Adn’iinistrator ofthe Governn‘ient,

for the time being, in Council, may, from time

to time direct.

XXVI. It shall be competent and lawful for any of Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel in this Island, when called upon so to do, in the ab- sence, or in the event of the incapacity from ill- ness of the Attorney or Solicitor General, or when either of those offices shall be vacant, to sign all necessary declarations, pleas, bail pieces, and other papers required to be signed in order to enter up judgment in Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, on any warrant of attorney heretofore taken by collectors of Impost and Excise, in addition to the recognizance by law directed to be taken as security for the payment of duties of impost and excise, notwithstanding that such warrant of attorney shall be directed to the Attorney General and Solicitor General only; also, to issue execution on the same, to take all necessary steps to perfect execution, and to acknowledge satisfaction under any such circumstances as aforesaid when payment has been recovered or received.

XXVII. All Warrants of Attorney which have heretofore been taken by Collectors of Impost and Excise, in addition to the recognizance by law directed to be taken as security for pay- ment of duties of impost and excise, shall, not- withstanding that the same shall not in all cases be found to have been strictly.taken in accord- ance with the directions contained in the statutes in force respecting the same, or the taking or form of such warrants of attorney, be held and

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