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     XX. For the better detecting persons distil- 
     
     ling, extracting or manufacturing spirituous 
     
     liquors, without license, as aforesaid; and also, 
     
     the better to enable the officers of the Revenue 
     
     collectlng the duties imposed by this or any other 
     
     Act of the Legislature on the distillation, extrac- 
     
     tion,manufacturing or importation of such spirit- 
     
     uous liquors, or other dutiable articles, it shall be 
     
     lawful for any Collector of Impost, Controller of 
     
     the Navigation Laws, Preventive Otlicer,orother 
     
     person appointed for collecting, securing or pre- 
     
     tecting the revenue ; and he is hereby authorized 
     
     to enter into andupon all houses, or other build- 
     
     ings and premises wherein he may have sus- 
     
     picion, and of the sufficiency of such suspicion 
     
     the officer shall be the sole judge that spirituous 
     
     liquors may have lately been, or are being dis- 
     
     tilled, extracted or manufactured, without 
     
     license, or without 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 of the Legislature 
     
     of this Island, and illegally manufactured, dis- 
     
     tilled or extracted, imported or landed, are, 
     
     and if on investigation, he shall find such to 
     
     have been or to be the case, he shall, and he is 
     
     hereby authorized and required to seize and 
     
     carry away the same, and sell the same at pub- 
     
     lic zuiction,within fifteen days after such seizure, 
     
     unless the owner of the Spirits or other dutiable 
     
     articles shall prove, to the satisfaction of the 
     
     officer making seizure, that no breach of this or 
     
     any other Act in force relating to the importing, 
     
     distilling, extracting, or manufacturing of 
     
     spirituous liquors, has been made, or that the 
     
     duties payable in respect thereof have been 
     
     paid; and the officer making the seizure shall be 
     
     entitled to the same preportion of the amount of 
     
     the sale as in the fiftyhfourth section of the Act of 
     
     the nineteenth Victoria, chapter one, is awarded 
     
     Preventive Officers and Landwaiters making 
     
     seizure; and a similar amount to that also point- 
     
     ed out in the said section of the said last recit- 
     
     ed 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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     convicted of having refused to account, or pay, 
     
     or secure the duties at the times prescribed by 
     
     law, or who shall have delayed his return, or 
     
     payment or security therefor, for more than ten 
     
     days after the expiration of the two. months 
     
     from the day wherein he last accounted, shall, 
     
     on conviction thereof, over and above the afore- 
     
     said penalty, be held not entitled to distil for 
     
     six months from and after the day of such con— 
     
     viction, under the penalty of five pounds for 
     
     each and every day he or those employed by 
     
     him, shall so distil after such conviction. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXII. The Treasurer shall publish a list of 
     
     the persons licensed to distil.Spirituous liquors, 
     
     in the Royal Gazette newspaper, once in each 
     
     and every month, instead of quarterly, as pre- 
     
     scribed in and by the sixty-fifth section of the 
     
     hereinbefore recited Act of nineteenth Victoria, 
     
     chapter one. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXIII. Any person or persons who shall, 
     
     after the passing of this Act, give to any Col- 
     
     lector of Excise or Preventive Officer, or to 
     
     any Justice of the Peace in this Island, infor- 
     
     mation of any unlicensed distillation being 
     
     carried on within this Island, or of any spiri- 
     
     tuous liquors which have not paid the duty 
     
     imposed upon the same, by the laws of this 
     
     Island, and which shall shall be liable to seizure, 
     
     such person or persons shall, on the conviction 
     
     of the parties so carrying on unlicensed dis- 
     
     tillation, or of the condemnation and sale of any 
     
     such spirituous liquors which shall have been 
     
     seized in consequence of the non-payment of the 
     
     duties payable thereon, be entitled to receive 
     
     the half of the fine which shall be imposed on 
     
     any such distiller, or one-half of the proceeds 
     
     of any spirituous liquors which may be con- 
     
     demned and sold as aforesaid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXIV. From and after the passing of this 
     
     Act, instead of the creditmentioned in the seven- 
     
     ty-eighth section of the said recited Act of the 
     
     nineteenth Victoria, chapter one, to be given 
     
     for duties on goods, wares and merchandize to 
     
     the importer thereof, as therein mentioned, the 
     
     following terms of credit for duties shall be 
     
     given, that is to say: If the said duties shalt 
     
     exceed the sum of ten pounds, and not amount 
     
     to more than thirty pounds, a credit of three 
     
     months shall be given therefor ; and if thesaid 
     
     duties shall exceed'thirty pounds, a credit of