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X. In every case, where any ship or vessel shall report or enter at any Excise Office or Custom House, within this Island, preparatory to or with the intention oftrading or selling any goods, wares or incrchandize, which she may have on board, the cargo of such vessel shall immediately thereafter be landed or checked by the Collector of Impost or ControllerofCustoms, or any landwaiter or revenue officer for the port or place where the same shall be so entered; and the duties, to which the cargo on board such vessel, when so landed or checked in manner aforesaid, shall be found to be liable, shall be paid, or the payment thereof secured in manner prescribed by the said recited Act ofthe nineteenth Victoria, chapter one, as amended by this Act.

XI. \Vlieii any landwaiter or preventive officer shall have made a seizure of any goods prohibited, or unlawfully imported, or attempted to be unlaw- fully imported, or landed in this Island, it shall be the duty of such oflicer, and he is hereby required to furnish to the nearest collector of impost, a list or account ofthe goods so seized, before proceeding to the sale thereof, and which sale shall be made known by posting a notice thereof in the form prescribed in the schedule marked (A.) to this Act annexed, in twelve of the most, public places, at. and in the vicinity of the place where such sale is to take place, at least fifteen days previous to such sale; and the collector or collectors ofimpost who may receive such list of seizures as aforesaid, are hereby required to furnish the same, annually, to the Treasurer ofthis Island, who shall lay the same before the House of Assembly, at the next session

thereof.

XII. For the better and more effectually secur- ing the several duties, fines, forfeitures and penalties, arising by virtue of tlns or any other Act relating to the revenue, now or hereafter to be in force, the Chief Justice, or in his absence any other Judge of the Supreme ('ourt, is hereby authorized and em- powered, on application made by the Attorney General, or other officer prosecuting on the part of the Crown for that purpose, to grant a bailable writ or warrant against any person liable for the said duties, penalties, fines and forfeitures; and such person shall be imprisoned 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 rendered himself liable, or then commenced or pending against him for such duties, fines, forfeitures

and penalties.

XIII There shall be allowed and paid on all wines, gin, brandy, rum, or other distilled spirit-

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uous liquors, tea, tobacco, and all goods, wares, and merchandize that have already been or that shall hereafter be imported into this Island, or manu- factured therein, on exportation of the same there- from, a drawback equal in amount to the whole duty paid or secured to be paid on such, on the importation thereof.

XIV. 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 ac- company 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 de-

\ O 0 O l I clared, if admissmn 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.

XV. 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 incurred, notwithstanding such law may have expired. '

XVI. During the continuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, or other administrator ofthe 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 Sixty-six, and the rate or price of every such license shall be twenty-five pounds for each and every dis— tillery, which sum shall be paid into the Treasury ofthis 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 ofimpost 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 Treasurer ofthis 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 at- torney the collector is hereby required to take before granting sucli certificate,) such person shall be en-