Excise Act 1688

X. Brewer, &c. having concealed Storehouse, &c.

Penalty, £50.; Mixing, concealing, &c. Worts, Penalty 20s. a Barrel.; Commissioners of Excise, &c. may give Judgment of Penalties.

And for avoiding some Doubts that have arisen It is hereby declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid That every Common Brewer Inn-keeper Victualler or Retailer of Beere or Ale who contrary to the said Act made in the said fifteenth yeare of the Raigne of the late King Charles the Second shall make use of any private or concealed Storehouse Celler or place for the laying of any Beere or Ale or Worts in Caske shall forfeit the Summe of fifty pounds for every such Offence And every such Brewer Inn-keeper Victualler or Retailer who contrary to the said Act made as aforesaid shall mix conceale or convey away any Worts shall forfeit twenty shillings for every Barrell of Worts by him or them soe mingled concealed or conveyed away contrary to the said Act And the Commissioners of Excise and Justices of the Peace and all others authorized to heare and determine Forfeitures and Offences against the Laws relateing to the Excise respectively on Complaints or Informations brought for these Offences or either of them and duely proved before them are hereby authorized to give Judgement or Sentence for the respective Forfeitures accordingly any Ommission or not repeating of the said Offences or either of them in and by the said Act notwithstanding