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wares and merchandize, that have already been or that shall hereafter be, imported into this this Islam], or manufactured therein. on expor- tation of the 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 officer 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 County where the building is situate, who is hereby required to accompany him, enter such building at any time between sunrise and sunset, but ii the doors are fastened then admission shall first he demanded and the purpose for which such entry is required, when declared, if admission shall not be given, the Justice shall order the officer forcibly to enter, and when, in either case, entry shall be made, the officer 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 under the new law, but forfeitures shall be recovered under the law under which they were in- curred, notwithstanding such law may have expired.

XV. During the continuation of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, 01‘ other Administrator of the Government for the time being, to grant licenses to distil, extract or manufacture spirituous liquors in this Island which licenses shall be in force from the date thereof respectively, until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and the rate or price of every such license shall be twenty-five pounds for each and every distillery, which sum shall be paid into the Treasury of this Island, for the use of Her Majesty’s Gov- ernment; and every person who shall pay the said sum of twenty-five pounds, or shall enter into, sign, seal and execute a and and warrant of Attorney, with on: good and sufficient surety, before the Collector of Impost for the district wherein the distillery ot the person so seeking such license shall be situate, conditioned to pay such sum within six months, with interest there on, from the date thereof, and shall produce to the 'l‘reasurer of this Island a certificate from such Collector of the fact of such bond and warrant of Attorney having been given for the amount aforesaid, (which bond and warrant of Attorney the Collector is hereby required to take before granting such certificate.) such per-

son shall be entitled tb receive a license to distil, extract or manufacture any spirituous liquors during the period for which such license shall be granted, the bond and warrant of Attorney to be given as last hereinbefore prescribed shall be of like form and eflect as the bond and war~ rant 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 Nine- teenth Victoria, Chapter ,One, as amended by this Act.

XVI. It shall be unlawful for any person during the continuation of this 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, ex tract or manufacture spirituous liquors, without having first obtained a license therefor, for every distiller, as hereinbefore re- quired, shall, for each and every offence, forfeit and pay to Her Majesty a fine not exceeding One hundred pounds, to be paid into the Trea- sury of this Island for the use of Her Majesty’s Government.

XVII. The owner or owners of any distillery, or other person or persons Whu 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 continuance of this Act, render a just and true account, in writing, to the near- est Collector of Impost and Excise, of the quantity of all spirituous liquors distilled or

‘manufactured by him or them for the two

months then last past, 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 follow- ing oath, which oath the said Collector is hereby required to administer :—

I. A. 13.. do swear that the account which I have now ren- dered and subscribed, contains a just and true amount of all the rum. lnandy. gin or whiskey distilled by me. (or if entry he made by foreman or servant. for any person or persons. ~ince the day of last past.) and also that the Sub. names from which the same have been extracted or manu— luctured are truly mentioned and stated in the Said account.

So help me God. XVIII. A nd the said owner, master or ser-

vant, after taking and subscribing the before