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titled to receive a license to distil, extract, or manufacture spirituous liquors during the period for which such license shall be granted; the bond and warrant of attorney, to be given as last hereinbetOre prescribed, shall be oflike form and effect as the bond and warrant of attorney hereafter to be given by the importers of goods, wares and merchandize, to secure the payment of duties thereon, under the provisions of the said recited Act of the nineteeth Victoria chapter one, as amended by this Act.

XVII. It shall be unlawful for any person during the continuance of this Act to distil, extract, or manufacture spirituous liquors in this Island, with- out having first obtained such license as aforesaid; and any person or persons who shall so distil, ex- tract, or manufacture spirituous liquors, without having first obtained a license therefor, for every distillery as hereinbefore required, shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay to Her Majesty a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be paid into the Treasury of this Island, for the use of Her Majesty’s Government.

XVIII. The owner or owners of any distillery, or other person or persons who shall manufacture any distilled spirituous liquors in this Island, and in case such distillery shall be conducted or carried on by any servant or servants having the care and management of the same, such owners, masters or servants respectively, shall on the first Monday in June, and on every first Monday in every alternate month thereafter, in each year during the continu- ance of this Act, render a just and true account in writing, to the nearest collector ofimpost and ex- cise, ofthequantity of all spirituous liquors distilled or manufactured by him or them for the two months then last passed; and shall also in such account, state whether the spirituous liquors therein referred to, have been distilled from molasses, or barley or grain, and how much from each respectively, and shall make and subscribe before the said collector, the following oath, which oath the said collector is hereby required to administer:

I, $1.13., do swear, that the account which I have now rendered and subscribed, contains a just and true account of all the rum, brandy, gin or whiskey distilled by me, (or if entry be made by foreman or servant,) for any person or persons, since the day of last past; and also, that the substances from which the same have been extract- ed or manufactured, are truly mentioned and stated in the said account.

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XIX. And the said owner, master or servant, after making and subscribing the before mentioned oath, shall forthwith pay or secure unto the said Collector of Impost and Excise the amount of duty imposed and due on such liquors so manufactured. as aforesaid, during the two months then last past, the satne to be paid or secured as directed by this A ct in the case of liquors, or other goods and mer- chandize imported into this Island.

XX. If any person shall neglect or refuse to make such return, or shall make a false return of the quantity ofspirituous liquors, so manufactured or distilled by him, or of the substances from which the same have been manufactured, or shall refuse to pay or secure the amount of duties on such liquors such person shall, for each and every offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, and shall like- wise forfeit the license to manufacture or distil, so granted to him as aforesaid, and no license shall or may be granted to any person whomsoever, to manu» facture or distil in the Distillery of any person whose license shall be so forfeited and cancelled, for the period of six months next, after the same shall have been so cancelled.

XXI. For the betterdetecting persons distilling, extracting or manufacturing spirituous liquors, without license, as aforesaid; and also, the better to enable the officers ofthe Revenue collecting the duties imposed by this or any other Act of the Legislature on the distillation, extraction, manu— facturing or importation of such spirituous liquors, or other dutiahle articles, it shall be lawful for any collector of impost, controller of the navigation laws, preventive ollicer, or other person appointed for collecting, securing or protecting the revenue, and he is hereby authorized to enter into and upon all houses, or other buildings and premises wherein he may have suspicion, and of the sufiiciency of such suspicion the officer shall be the sole judge, that spirituous liquors may have lately been, or are being distilled, extracted, or n'ianufactured, without license, or without the duties imposed by this or any other Act having been paid or secured therefor, or wherein he may suspect. any goods, articles or spirituous liquors liable to duty under this Act, or any other Act ofthe Legislature of this Island,and illegally manufactured, distilled or extracted, im- ported or landed are, and it on investigation, he shall find such to have been or to be the case, he- shall, and he is hereby authorized and required to seize and carry away the same, and sell the same at public auction, within fifteen days after such seizure, unless the owner of the spirits or other