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8 id Collector of lmpost and Excise the amount:nmde, or that the duties payable in respect there- o"duty imposed and due on such liquor so manufac- of have been pail, and the officer 111 lklllg. he selz- tured as aforesaid during the two months then last, ure shall be entitled to the same proportion of the past, the same to be paid or secured as directed , amount of the sale as in the fifty-fiurth section of by this Act, in the case of liquors or other goodsithe Act of the nineteenth Victoria Chapter one is ad merchandi imported into this Island. gawarded to Preventive Ollicers and Landwaiters

XIX If am. person Shall Ragloct m. refuse to making seizure, and similar amount to that also make such return, or shall make a false return of; 13.0th Ont m the 8a“; Swtunlohihe Saul last r'f‘ the quantity of spirituous liquors so manufactured lC’tC‘] A“, Shall be pub] ml“) .Um, {1.028%}, Of “115 or distilled by him, or ofthe substances from which i 1513’“ for the use Of 110“ M‘UOS .Y S 0‘ eminent- t'1e same hare been manufactured or shall refuseI XXI. Any distiller, or his agent or servant or to pay or secure the amount of duties on suehlother person, who shall be convicted of having l‘iqu it‘s, such person shall for each and every of— wilfully and fraudulently made a return short of fence, forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty Pounds, l the real quantity of liquor made by him, or sh Ill and shall likewise, forfeit the house to n anufac- l make a false return of the substances from which ture or distil, so granted to him as aforesaid, and i the same has been made, or who shall be convict- no license shall or may be granted to any perszin 1 ed of having refused to account or pay, or secure whomsoever, to 1n'inu.acturc or distil in the dis- l the duties at the times prescribed by law, or who tillcry ofan 7 person r. hose license shall be so far-jshall have delayed his return or payment, or

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11.‘Xi} after th; same shall have been so Cancelled

XX. F ‘r the better detecting persons distilling, t

(xtracting, or manufheturing Spiritucus liquors without license as aforesaid, and also the better to enable the officers of the revenue, collecting the duties imposed by this or any other Act of the Legislature on the distillation, extraction, manu- facturing or iinporta‘inn of such spirituous liquors,

or other dutiahle articles, it shall be lawful for any,

Collector of lmpost, Controller of the Navigation liaw , Preventive Officer, or other person appoint- ed for collecting, securing, or protecting the rev- (llth, and he is hereby authorized to enter into and up in all houses or other buildings and pren— ises wherein he may have suspicion and of the suf- ficiency of sucl ,uspieion the officer shall be the role idge that spirituous liquors may have lately been, r are being distilled, extracted, or mant ~ faciut‘ed without license, or without the dutiesim- posed by this, or any other Act, having been paid or secured therefor or wherein he may suspect any goods, a 'ticles, or Spirituous liquors liable to duty unler this Act, or any 0t ier Act of the Legisla- ture of this island and illegally manufactured, dis‘ tilled, or extracted, imported or landed are anl if on im'estigation he shall find such to have been, or to be the case he shall, and he is hereby author- ized, and required, to seize and carry away the same and sell the same at public auction, within tit-teen days after such seizure, unless the owner of the spirits, orother dutiable articles, shall prove tothe satisfaction of the officer lliaking seizure that no breach of this, or any other Act in force relating to the importing, distilling. extracting, or inu’iufaeturing of spirituous liquors, has been

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lsecurity therefor, fir more than ten days after the l expiration of the two months fxom the day wherein ihe last accounted, shall, on conviction thereof, lover and above the aforesaid penalty, be held not ientitlel to distil for six mmths from out after lthe day of such conviction, under the penalty of Efive pounds for each and every day he or those lgemployed by him shall so distil after such con- tviction.

XXII. The Treasurer shall publish a list of ,the persons licensed to distil spirituous liquors ‘in the qul/(Il Gam‘ic newspaper once in each and every month, instead of quarterly, as prescribed in and by the sixty-fifth section of the hereinbefore recited Act of n'netcenth Victoria, Chapter One.

XXIII. Any person or persons who shall, after the passing of this Act, give to any Collector of Excise or Preventive Officer, or to any Justice of the l‘eace in this Island, information of any unlicensed distillation being carried on withinvthis Island, or of any spirituous liquors which have not paid the duties imposed upon the same by the laws ofthis Island, and which shall be liable to seizure, such pe ‘son or persons shall, on the convicti )11 of the parties so carrying on unlicensed distillation, or ofthe condemnation and sale of any such spirituous liquirs, which shall have been seized in conse- quence of the nonpayment of the duties payable thereon, be entitled to receive the half of the fine which shall be imposed on any such distiller, or one-half of the proceeds of any spirituous liquors which may be condemned and sold as aforesaid.

XXlV. From and after the passing of this Act, instead of the credit mentioned in the seventy- eighth section of the said recited Act of the