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Taxation (Wine and Spirits) Act 1691
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II.Distillers concealing Spirits, &c.
Penalty.; 12 Car. II. c. 24.; 15 Car. II. c. 11.
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any co[m]mon Distiller or Maker of Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters shall att any time hereafter hide conceal or convey any Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for sale from the sight or view of the Gauger or Gaugers appointed [X1so] to take account of the same whereby Their Majesties shall or may be defrauded of any the duties due for the same that every such co[m]mon Distiller or Maker of such Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for every Gallon of Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for sale so hid concealed or conveyed as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of five shillings each Gallon all which Penalties to be sued for recovered [X2and] levied in such manner as by one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth yeare of the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for settling a Revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof and alsoe as by one other Act of Parliament made in the Fifteenth yeare of His said Majesties Reigne entituled An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the duties of Excise and preventing the abuses therein or in either of them or by any other Law now in force relateing to the Revenue of Excise on Beer and Ale is directed.
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