Taxation, etc. Act 1695

VII.

Gauger finding a certain Quantity of decayed Wines, &c. with Distillers or Stills as herein described, Proceedings; Obstructing Gauger as herein mentioned; Penalty £20.

And for preventing the making or drawing of Low Wines or Spiritts of a First or Second Extraction by any Compound Distiller or rectifying Distiller or any other co[m]mon Distiller whereby to defraud His Majesty of any of the Duties by this Act imposed Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Gauger or Officer of Excise shall from and after the said Five and twentieth Day of March find in the Distilling-house or other House or Warehouse of any compound Distiller or rectifying Distiller or any other co[m]mon Distiller any Quantity of decayed Wines Cyder or other Materials fitt for or preparing for Distillation whereby hee may be induced to believe that such compound or rectifying Distiller or other co[m]mon Distiller doth or may draw or extract Low Wines or Spiritts from such Materials and such Gauger or Officer shall find any Still or Stills of such Distillers charged or prepared to work. That it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Gauger or Officer to take off the Head of such Still or Stills and to examine what Materials are therein if not att work and in case such Still or Stills shall be att work that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Gauger or Officer to stay and continue in such Distillers Distilling-house until such Still or Stills shall be wrought off and then to examine what Materials were wrought therein And in case any such Distiller shall refuse to permitt such Gauger to continue in his Distilling House until such Still or Stills shall be wrought off and examined as aforesaid in every such case such Distiller shall forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds.