Taxation, etc. Act 1695

X. Notice to Officer of distilling.

Hours; Penalty £10.

And to the Intent that the Duties payable to His Majesty for all Low Wines Spiritts Aqua Vite and Strong Waters may be the better ascertained collected and levied Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Five and twentieth Day of March no Distiller or Maker of Low Wines Spiritts Aqua Vite or Strong Waters shall distill or sett their Stills att work for the drawing or making any the Liquors above mentioned or shall deliver or carry out any Low Wines Spiritts or Aqua Vite to any of their Customers in Cask or by the Gallon without Notice thereof first given to the Officer of Excise for the Place or Division where such Distiller or Maker shall live to the Intent that such Officer may be present to see and gauge the same unlesse att such times as herein after are mentioned (that is to say) from the Nine and twentieth day of September to the Five and twentieth Day of March yearely between the Houres of Five in the Morning and Eight in the Evening and from the Five and twentieth day of March to the Nine and twentieth day of September yearely between the houres of Three in the Morning and Nine in the Evening upon paine that every Distiller and Maker of the Liquors aforesaid doeing contrary hereunto shall forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds.