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Excise Act 1688

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XII.By whom and how Complaints of Overcharge returned may be determined.

Witnesses examined on Oath.

And it is hereby enacted That the Commissioners of Excise or Appeales or Justices of Peace within whose Jurisdiction respectively any such Brewer Maker or Retailer shall inhabite or dwell upon Complaint to them made by or on the behalfe of such Brewers Makers or Retailers of any Overcharge returned upon them by any of the said Gaugers shall and are required to heare and determine all such Complaints and examine the Witnesses upon Oath which shall be produced as well on the behalfe of the partie makeing such Complaint as on the behalfe of all and every other party and parties (which Oath they have hereby power to administer) and thereupon or by other due proofe to discharge or acquitt such Brewer Maker or Retailer of soe much of his and their respective Charges as shall be soe made out before them any thing in this or in any former Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding

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