Taxation Act 1698

IX. After 10th May 1699, Vinegar Maker receiving Stale Beer, &c. or sending out Vinegar without Notice to Officer, as herein mentioned,

Penalty £50.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Tenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety nine no Vineger Maker shall receive into his Custody any Stale Beere Returns of Beere of Ale Cyder Verjuice or other Liquors proper to be made into Vineger nor carry or deliver out any Vineger in Casks or by the Gallon without Notice thereof first given to the Officer of Excise for the Place or Division where such Maker shall inhabit to the Intent that such Officer may be present to see and take an Account of the same unless at such times as hereinafter are mentioned That is to say From the Nine and twentieth Day of September to the Five and twentieth Day of March yearly betweene the Houres of Seaven in the Morning and Five in the Evening and from the said Five and twentieth Day of March to the Nine and twentieth Day of September yearly betweene the Houres of Five in the Morning and Seaven in the Evening upon Paine that every Maker doing contrary thereunto shall forfeite for every such Offence the Sum of Fifty Pounds