Taxation (Wine and Spirits) Act 1691

Distiller setting up, &c. brewing Vessel, &c. without Notice to Officer;

Penalty.

For the preventing of the Frauds of Distillers Makers and other Retailers of Low Wines Spirits and Strong Waters Be it enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Co[m]mons now in Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That no co[m]mon Distiller or Maker of Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for sale shall att any time from and after the First day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and one set up make use of or alter any Tun Cask Washbatch Copper Still or other Vessell for the brewing or makeing of any Worts Wash Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for sale or shall keep or make use of any private or concealed Warehouse Celler or other Place for the laying of any Wash Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for sale without first giving Notice thereof att the next Office of Excise within the Limitts or Jurisdiction whereof he or they do or shall inhabit upon pain to forfeit the Sum of Twenty pounds for every Tun Cask Washbatch Copper Still or other Vessell so set up used or altered and for every private or concealed Warehouse Celler or other Place so used as aforesaid and that all and every other Person or Persons in whose occupation any House Outhouse or other place whatsoever is or shall be where any such private or concealed Tun, Cask Washbatch Copper Still or other Vessell shall be found or discovered shall alsoe forfeit and lose the sum of Twenty pounds one moiety thereof to Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors and the other moiety to him or them that shall informe or sue for the same.