Taxation (No. 5) Act 1690

II. Distillers to draw their Spirits from Corn without Molosses, &c.

Gaugers to see and keep Accounts of the Spirits.; Mixing other Materials; Penalty.

And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That all Distillers and others who shall draw or make any Low Wines Spirits or Brandy [X1 from Corne] shall brew or cause their Corne to be brewed and made into cleane and wholsome Drinke and from such Drinke soe made and prepared (without any mixture with any Molosses Wash or Tilts or other Materialls whatsoever) shall draw their Low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction and that it shall and may be lawfull for the Gager and Gagers of Excise from time to time to gage and keepe an Account of the Liquors Worts and Drinke made and drawne by such Distillers or others for the makeing such Low Wines Spirits or Brandies and to see that the same be drawne and made from Drinke made of malted Corne entirely without any Mixture as aforesaid and in case any Distillers or others shall therewith mix any other Materialls either in the Brewing or after the same is made into Drinke and before the same be distilled into Low Wines The said Gagers shall charge the Low Wines drawne from the Drinke soe mixed with the Duty of twelve pence for every Gallon which said Duty shall be answered and paid to their Majestyes and their Successors

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.