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     first Monday in June, and on every first Monday 
     
     in euery alternate month thereafter, in each year 
     
     duringithe continuance of this Act, render a just 
     
     and free account in writing, to the nearest col- 
     
     lector ofimpost and excise, ofthequantity ofall 
     
     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 fol- 
     
     lowing oath, which oath the said collector is 
     
     hereby required to administer : 
     
    
   
   
    
     I, fl. 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 scrvant,) for any person or persons 
     
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     vant, after making and subsciibing the before 
     
     mentioned oath, shall forthwith pay or secure 
     
     unto the said Collector of lmpost and Excise the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     liquors, without license, as atoresaid; and also, 
     
     the better to enable the otlicers of the Revenue 
     
     collecting theduties imposed by this o ' any other 
     
     Act ofthe Legislature on the distillation, extrac- 
     
     tion, mannlacturing or importation of such spirit- 
     
     uous liquors, or other dutiahle articles, it shall 
     
     be lawful for any collector ofimpost, controller 
     
     of the navigation laws, preventive otlicer, or other 
     
     person appointed for collecting. securing or pro- 
     
     tecting the revenue, and he is hereby authorized 
     
     to enter into and upon all houses, or other build- 
     
     ings and premises wherein he may have suspicion, 
     
     and ofthe sulliciency ofsuch suspicion the olliccr 
     
     shall be the sole judge, that spirituous liquors 
     
     may have lately been, or are being distilled, ex- 
     
     trated ormanulactured, without license, or with- 
     
     out 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 ot the Legislature of this island, and 
     
     illegally manutactured, distilled or extracted, 
     
     imported or lauded are, and ifon investigation, 
     
    
   
   
    
     he shall lind such to have been or to he the case 
     
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     .he shall, and he is hereby authoriZed and re— 
     
     XVIH. And the said owner, master or ser-l 
     
    
   
   
    
     quire-J to seize and carry away the same, and 
     
     sell the same at public auction, within fifteen 
     
     days after such seizure, unless the owner ofthe 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     spirits or other dutiable articles shall prove, to 
     
    
   
   
    
     amount. of duty imposed and due on such liquors ; the SilliSfilCllO” 0f the “lib-70" making the seizure, 
     
     so manufactured as aforesaid, during the two? that no breach ol this or any other Act in force 
     
    
   
   
    
     months then last past, the same to be paid or 
     
     secured as directed by this Act in the case of 
     
     liquors, or other goods and merchandize imported 
     
     into this Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIX. If any person shall neglect or refuse to 
     
     make such return, or shall make a false return 
     
     of the quantity ofspirituous liquors, so manufac- 
     
     tured or distilled by him, or of the substances 
     
     from which the satne have been manufactured, 
     
    
   
   
    
     or shall refuse to pay or secure the amount of 
     
    
   
   
    
     duties on such liquors, such person shall, for 
     
     each and every ol‘lence, forfeit and pay the sum 
     
     of twenty pounds, and shall likewise 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 manufac- 
     
     ture 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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XX. For the better detecting persons dis- 
     
     tillmg, extracting or manufacturing spirituous 
     
    
   
   
    
     irelating ‘to the imptn'ting, distilling, extracting, 
     
     ;or manufacturing of spirituous liquors, has been 
     
     made, or that. the duties payable in respect tltere- 
     
     of have been paid; and the ollicer making the 
     
     seizure shall be entitled to the same proportion 
     
     of the amount of the sale, as in the fifty-fourth 
     
     section of the Act. ofthe nineteenth Victoria, 
     
     chapter one, is awarded preventive officers and 
     
     landwaiters making Seizures ; and a similar 
     
     amount to that also pointed out in the said sec- 
     
     tion of the said last recited Act, shall be paid 
     
     into the Treasury of this Island for the use of 
     
     Her Majesty’s Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXI. Any distiller, or his agent, or servant, 
     
     or other person who shall be convicted of having 
     
     wilfully and fraudulently made a return short of 
     
     the real quantity of liquor made by him, or shall 
     
     make a false return of the substances from which 
     
     the same has been made, or who shall be con- 
     
     victed of having refused to account, or pay, or 
     
     secure the duties at thetimes prescribed by law, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     or who shall have delayed his return, or payment