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X I. For tlte better and tnore effectually se- curing the several duties, fines, tbrleitures and penalties, arising by virtue of this or any other Act relating to the revenue, now or hereafter to

or any Judge of the Supreme (‘ourt,, is hereby

by the Attorney General, or other otlicer prose- cuting on the part, ofthe Crown for that purpose, to grant. a bailable writ or warrant against any person liable tor the said duties, penalties, fines and tort'eitures; and such person shall be impri- soned or detained in the County Jail until he shall have given bail to answer the judgment and costs in any action to which he shall have ren- dered himself liable, or then commenced or pending against him for such duties, lines, for- feitures and penalties.

XII. There shall be allowed and paid on all wines, gin, brandy, rum, or other distilled spirit- uous liqUors, tea, tobacco, and all goods, wares, and merchandize that have already been or that shall hereafter be imported into this Island, or manufactured therein, on exportation ofthe'same therefrom, a drawback equal in amount to the whole duty paid or secured to be paid on such, on the importation thereof.

XIII. Any revenue ofl'icer having reasonable cause to suspect goods liable to forfeiture to be in any particular building, may in company with any Justice of the Peace for the ll‘ounty where the building is situate, who is hereby required to accompany him, enter such building at any time between sunrise and sunset ; but if the doors are fastened then admission shall be first demanded, and the purpose for which entry is required, when declared, if admission shall not be given, the Justice shall order the otiicer forci- bly to enter; and when in either case, entry shall be made, the ollicer shall search the building and seize all forfeited goods.

XIV. Duties on goods imported before the coming into operation of an Act imposing new duties, and whereon the duties have not been paid or secured, shall be collected tinder the new law, but terfeitures shall be recovered under the law, under which they were incurred, not- withstanding such law may have expired.

XV. During the continuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, or other administrator of the Government for the time being, to grant licenses to distil, extract or

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manulaeture spirituous liquors in this Island, which licenses shall be in force from the date hereof respectivelv, until the first day of May,

_ one thousand eight hundred and sile-seven, and be in force, the Chief Justice, or in his absence;

the rate or price of every such license shall be

‘ I {twenty-live pounds for each and every distillery, authorized and empowered, on application made

which sum shall be paid intothe 'l‘reasury ofthis Island for the use of Her .\l ajesty’s Government; and every person who shall pay the said sum of twenty-live pounds, or shall enter into, sign, seal,and execute a bond and warrant of attorney, with one good and sutlicient surety, before the collector of impost for the district wherein the distillery of the person so seeking such license shall be situate, conditioned to pay such sum within six months, with interest thereon, from the date thereof, and shall produce to the Trqa- surer of this Island a certificate from such col- lector, of the fact of such bond and warrant of attorney having been given for the amount afore- said, (which bond and warrant of attorney the collector is hereby required to take before grant: ing such certificate,) such person shall be entitled to receive a license to distil, extract or manufac- ture spirituous liquors during the period for which such license shall be granted; the bond and war- rant of attorney, to be given as last hereinbefore prescribed, shall be of like form and effect as the bond and warrant of attorney hereafter to be given by the importers of goods, wares and mor- chandize, to secure the payment ofduties there- on, under the provisions of the said recited Act, of the nineteenth Victoria chapter one, as amend- ed by tliis Act. ' '

XVI. It shall be unlawful for any person dur- ing the continuance ofthis Act to distil, extract or manufacture spirituous liquors in this Island, without having first obtained such license as aforesaid; and any person or persons who shall so distil, extract or manufacture spirituous liquors without having first obtained a license therefor, tor 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 ofthis Island, for the use of Her Majesty’s Government. ,

XVII. The owner or owners of any distillery or other person or persons who shall manufac- ture any distilled spirituous liquors in this Island, and in case such distillery shall be conducted or carried onby any servant or servants having the care and management ofthe same, such owners, masters or servants respectively, shall on the