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Penalty.; Officers to make Returns of Search.; Penalty.; Incapacity.
And to the end no person whatsoever may defraud his Majesty of the Duty intended by this Act by concealing the Wines or other Liquors thereby charged belonging to any person by this Act declared a Retailer Be it further enacted That if any person or persons shall knowingly have or take [X1into] any Ware house Cellar or other place in his or theire possession any of the Wines or other Liquors chargeable by this Act belonging to any Retailer without giving notice thereof under his or theire hands respectively within two dayes after the same shall be in his or theire custody aswell of the place where the said Wines or other Liquors aforesaid are lodged as of the quantity and kind of Wines or other Liquors to the best of his or theire knowledge so in his or theire custody unto the Commissioners appointed to execute this Act some or one of them In every such case the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and lose the full value of the Wines that he or they shall so conceal without giving notice as aforesaid And all and every person and persons appointed to view and search as aforesaid shall make theire Returns in Writing under theire Hands unto the Commissioners for execution of this Act and shall first deliver a Duplicate thereof to the person or persons concerned containing the Names of the persons viewed and searched and the quantity of the respective Liquors aforesaid by him found and discovered to them belonging at such time and place as in and by the Warrant or Warrants to him or them directed shall be limited and appointed on pain of forfeiture for every such neglect of double the value of the Wines or other Liquors aforesaid by him not returned as aforesaid and of being made uncapable of executing the same or any other Office of Trust whatsoever
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