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 A. D. 1761* Anno fecundo Georgii III. C. 5. 581 for Exportation, although he may have made an Entry as aforefaid, unlefs he, fhe, or they fhall ac-^^"°"5i and unlefs he tually have diftilled into Spirits all the Walh ^nd Low Wines in his, her, or their Cullody or Poflef- Jpf/j^^Yii Jhewln^rnd fion for the making of Spirits for Home Confumption, at leaft forty-eight Hours before the DayLowWinesinhisCufiociy mentioned in fuch Entry. for Home Confumption, 48 Hours before the Day mentioned in the Entry. XVII. And it is hereby further enafled by the Authority aforefaid. That when any fuch DiftiJ^er^f^^'^f^^fWa^J^nn^dLow or Diftillers (hail be defirous of diil:i!ling any Spirits for Home Confumption, and fhall have a6tually po,."aj^io°'^^^jyf,^g j[(^il'|" diftilled into Spirits all the Wafh, Low Wines, and Feints, in his, her, or their Cullody orPoflef-ed, and the Spirits lock- fion, for the making of Spirits for Exportation, and fuch Spirits fhall be locked up in the Warehoufeed up; as herein after is direded ; he, fhe, or they may withdraw his, her, or their Entry for Exportation, ^^^ ^[^'^p*^ "^7 ^'''^" and (hall be at Liberty to make a frefli and like Entry for making Spirits for Home Confumption ; and por^tion, and make En- at the Expiration of fix Days after fuch Entry made, it fhall and maybe lawful for fuch Diftiiler try anew'for Home Con- and Diflillers to begin to brew or mix Materials for Wafh to be diftilled into Spirits for Home Con- fumption, and within fix fumption : And if any fuch Diftiiler or Diftillers fhall begin to brew or mix Materials for Wafh to Days after begin his Ope- be diftilled into Spirits for Home Confumption, without having made fuch Entry, or contrary to '^^^*^'^|J.^^"°^^"2Jy;^^^ any of the Diredions of this Claufe, he fhall, for every fuch OlFence, forfeit and lofe the Sum of jq t^efe ofreaions he^ two hundred Pounds. forfeits 200I. ' XVin. And, for the preventing of Frauds, which Diftillers for Exportation may commit, by That from and after the faid twenty-firft Day of "January one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-two, poftationistobepumped, no Wafh that fhall be brewed or mixed for the extra6ling Spirits for Exportation, fhall be pumped ^'^•""^° '^^ ^^oU" ^^* up into the Still or Stills, or otherways removed from the Back or VefTel wherein the fame was fer- '"^^"'^^^ ^" * *="»■ mented, but in the Prefence of an Officer of Excife, on any Pretence whatfoever ; and all and everyand the Low Wines im* fuch Diftiiler and Diftillers fhall, and is and are hereby required to run or draw ofF his, her, or their mediately run off into an Low Wines immediately from the Still, into an entered VefTel or VefTel s only, and to continue ^"^'^^'^'Ij^^'^^''^"'^ '^^'^'■*' them therein, fo that the Officers of Excife may take a true Gauge of fuch Low Wines; and fuch andVproperCafk enter- Diftiller and Diftillers fhall each of them provide a proper Cafk which fhall be duly entered and ed and gauged, fufficient gauged, into which the Spirits fhall run immediately from the Still ; which Cafk fhall be fufficient to contain the Spirits ex- to contain the whole Produce of Spirits to be extrafted from each Still when made up to the pro- "»'^«<^^ '^ to be providedj per Strength fuch Spirits are required to be ; and when the whole Quantity of Spirits fhall be colle required immediately to make up fuch Spirits, in the Prefence of the Officer of Excife, to the t^^e Spirits are to be made Strength of one to fix under Hydrometer Proof; and a true Gauge of fuch Spirits fo made up, fhall ^/*'°q^ ^^^ Prefence of then be taken by the Officer of Excife, who fhall keep an exadl Account thereof; and fuch Spirits, j, j^;^. ' ^^"^'' and every Part thereof, fhall immediately afterwards be put into Cafks, and fecured in the Prefence and afterwards put in of the Officer of the Excife, in a Warehoufe or Warehoufes to be provided and duly entered at thecaiks, and fecured in his proper Office of Excife, and kept for that Purpofe by and at the Expence of fuch Diftiiler and Dif- Prefence in fome entered tillers, which Spirits fhall be kept there feparate and apart from all Spirits made for Home Confump- and approved v/arehoufe, tion ; and no Spirits for Home Confumption fhall be put into the fame Warehoufe ; and fuch Ware- )^g " VepTratrfrom^Spi- houfe and Warehoufes fhall be fecured under three Locks and three Keys to each Warehoufe into Hts for Home Confump- which the faid Spirits fhall be carried ; one of thofe Locks to be provided by fuch Diftiiler, and the tion, other two Locks to be provided by the Surveyor, Supervifor, or Officer of Excife, of the Divifion or Place where the faid Spirits fhall be locked up, at the Expence of fuch Diftiiler; whereof one Key of each Place fhall be kept by fuch Diftiiler, and another by fuch Surveyor or Supervifor, and the third by fuch Officer of Excife, until the fame Spirits fhall be delivered out for Re£tification, or af- until delivered out for ! terwards for Exportation; which Warehoufe and Warehoufes fhall be made well and fufficiently Rectification, orExpor* fccure to the Satisfaction and Approbation of the refpe£live Surveyors or Supervifors of Excife for'^*°"> the Time being, in whofe Divifion or Diftri<5t any fuch Warehoufe or Warehoufes fhall be fituate, whofe Approbation thereof fhall be fignified in Writing, under the Hands of fuch Surveyors or Su-^ pervifors ; and the refpe<Stive Surveyors or Supervifors are hereby required to attend, on reafonable 3,,^ ^},g S„^ 3^^ ^^ Notice to them given by the refpe6tive Diftillers, in order to view the fame : And if any Diftiiler or view, and fign their Ap- Diftillers for Exportation fhall, contrary to the Diredtions of this Ail, pump up into the Still or Stills, probation of the faid or otherwife remove any fuch Wafh as aforefaid, from the Back or VefTel wherein the fame was fer- Warehoufes. mented, but in the Prefence of an Officer of Excife, or fhall not run ofF, or caufe to be run oft", his, l^'S DiSfon""*'' her, or their Low Wines immediately from the Still into an entered Veftel or VefTels only, or fhall ° ^^ "^ '°^^* not continue the fame in fuch entered VefTel or VefTels, fo that the Officers of Excife may take a true Gauge of fuch Low Wines, or fhall neglect or refufe to provide a proper Cafk into which the Spirits fhall run immediately from the Still as aforefaid, or to enter fuch Cafk, or fhall run off any Spirits from the Still into any Cafk, except fuch Cafk herein before direiled to be provided, or fhall, when the whole Quantity of Spirits fhall be collected as aforefaid, negledl or refufe immedi- ately to make up, in the Prefence of the Officer of E;:cife, fuch Spirits to the Strength of one to fix under Hydrometer Proof; or fhall by any Ways or Means prevent, hinder, or obltruit the Officer or obftrufting the Officer of Excife, from taking a Gauge or Gauges of the Wafh, Low Wines, or Spirits, or to take a Sample '" the Gauging, taking or Samples of them or any of them, or to try the Proof of the Spirits (which Gauges, Samples, and ^^""P?" ^(^'''p ^^""' Trials of Proof, they are hereby impowered to take and make, as often as the Commiffioners of Ex- ""^ "^^'"^ ' ^ "*' *"' cife for the Time being Ihall dired, and which Samples Ihall be returned by the Officers of Excife to I " the
 * privately removing and concealing the Wafh, Low Wines, or Spirits; and in order that the Of-
 * ficer may obtain true Gauges of the fame ;' It is hereby further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, Wafh for Spirits for Ex-