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     mentioned Oath, shall forthwith pay, or secure? 
     
     untofthe said Collector of Impost and Excise'| 
     
     the amount of duty imposed and due on such 
     
     liquor so manufactured as aforesaid during the 
     
     two-months then last past, the same to be paid. 
     
     or secured as directed by this Act, in the ease! 
     
    
   
   
    
     of liquors or other goods and merehandrze 1m-Ifactuiing of spirituous hquOIs, has been made, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ported into this Island. 
     
    

    
     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 
     
     manufactured or distilled by him, or of the 
     
     substances from which the same have been 
     
     manufactured, or shall refuse to pay or secure 
     
     the amount of duties on such liquors, such per- 
     
     son shall, for each and every offence, 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 
     
     whomsocver, 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. 
     
    

    
     XX. For the better detecting persons dis- 
     
     tilling, extracting, or manufacturing spirituous 
     
     liquors without license, as aforesaid, and also 
     
     the better to enable the officers of the revenue 
     
     collecting the duties imposed by this or any 
     
     other Act of the Legislature on the distillation, 
     
     extraction, manufacturing or importation of 
     
     such spirituous liquors, or other dutiable arti~ 
     
     cles, it shall be lawful for any Collector of Im- 
     
     post, Controller of the Navigation Laws, Pre— 
     
     ventive Officer, or other person appointed for 
     
     collecting, securing, or protecting the revenue, 
     
     and he is hereby authorized to enter into and 
     
     upon all houses or other buildings and premi- 
     
     ses wherein he may have suspicion, and or the 
     
     sufficiency of such suspicion the officer shall 
     
     be the sole judge, that spirituous liquors may 
     
     have lately been, or are being distilled, ex- 
     
     tracted, or manufactured without license, or 
     
     Without the duties imposed by this, or any 
     
     other Act, having been paid or secured there- 
     
     for, or wherein he, may suspect any goods, 
     
     articles, or spirituous liquors liable to duty 
     
     under this Act, or any other Act of the Legis- 
     
     lature of this Island, and illegally manufac- 
     
     tured, distilled, 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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     public auction, 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 manu- 
     
    
   
   
    
     or that the duties payable in respect thereof, 
     
     have been paid, and the officer 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 of the nineteenth 
     
     Victoria, chapter one, is awarded to Preven- 
     
     tive Officers and Landwaiters making seizure, 
     
     and a similar amount to that also pointed out 
     
     in the said section 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 sub- 
     
     stances from which the same has been made, 
     
     or who shall be convicted of having refused to 
     
     account for or pay, or secure the duties at the 
     
     times prescribed by law, or who shall have de- 
     
     layed his return or payment, or security there 
     
     for, 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 aforesaid penalty, be held not en- 
     
     titled to distil for six months from and after the 
     
     day of such conviction, under the penalty of 
     
     five pounds for each and every day he or those 
     
     employed by him shall so distil after such con- 
     
     viction. 
     
    

    
     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, information 
     
     of any unlicensed distillation being carried on 
     
     within this Island, or of any spirituous liquors 
     
     which have not paid the duties imposed upon 
     
     the same by the laws of this Island, and which 
     
     shall be liable to seizure, such person or per- 
     
     sons shall, on the conviction of the parties so 
     
     carrying on unlicensed distillation, or on the