A ROYAL GAZETTE.

thereof respectively, until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,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 Govern- ment; and every person who shall pay the said sum of twenty-five pounds, or shall enter into, sign, seal, and execute a bond and warrant of attorney, with one good and sufficient 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 monthsmith interest there- on, from the date thereof, and shall produce to the Treasurer 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 person shall be entitled to receive a license to distil, extract or manufacture spirituous liquors during the period for which such license shall be grant- ed; the bond and warrant 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 import- ers of goods, wares and merehandize, to secure the payment of duties thereon, under the prc~ visions of the said recited Act, ofthe nineteenth Victoria chapter one, as amended by this Act.

XVI. It shall be unlawful for any person dur- ing the continuance 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, extract or manufacture Spirituous liquors without having first obtained a license therefor, for every distillery as hereinhefore 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 who shall manufac- ture any distilled spirituous liquors in this Is— land, and in case such distillery shall be con- ducted 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 there~ after, in each year during the continuance of this Act, render a just and true account in writing to the nearest 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 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, A. 8., do swear, that the account which] have now rendered and subscribed contains a just and true account of allthe rum, brandy, gin, or whiskey distilled by me, (or if entry be made by foreman or servant,) for any person or per— sons since the day of last past; and also, that the substances from which the same have been extracted or manufactured are truly men- tioned and stated in the said account.

So help me God.

XVIII. And the said owner, master or ser— vant, after making and subscribing the before mentioned oath, shall forthwith pay or secure unto the said Collector of Inipost and Exciselthe amount of duty imposed and due on such liquors so manufactured as aforesaid, during the two months then last past, the same to be paid (21‘ secured as directed by this Act in the case of liquors, or other goods and merchandize import- ed into this Isl:.nd.

XIX. If any person shall neglect or refuse to make such return, or shall make a false return of the quantity of spirituous liquors, so manu— factured or distilled by him, or of the sub- stances from which the same have been manu- factured, 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 likewise forfeit the license‘ to manufacture er distil, so granted to him as aforesaid ; and no license shall or may be granted to any person whomsoever, to manufacture 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.