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Brewers, &c. to give Notice to Officer of setting up, altering, or enlarging Tuns, Fats, &c.; Not to keep or use private or concealed Storehouses, Cellars, &c. Penalty.; Penalty on Persons occupying House, &c. where such concealed Tuns, &c. are.; Such concealed Tun, &c and all the Beer, &c. may be seized and sold for the Poor.
For the preventing of the Fraudes and Deceites of Brewers and other persons who make Beere and Ale and other Exciseable Liquors to sell, and of the abuses committed by the Officers Collectors and Managers of the Excise to the great decay of His Majesties Revenue of Excise and obstruction of the due and orderly collecting of the same and for supply and amendment of certaine defects in the Lawes and Statutes relateing to the Duty of Excise aswell for the support and advance of the said Revenue as for the ease of the people Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and of the Commons in this Parliament assembled and by Authoritie of the same That noe common Brewer Innkeeper Victualler or other Retailer of Beere or Ale shall at any time after the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixtie three without first giveing notice thereof at the next Office of Excise or to the Commissioners Farmers or Sub Commissioners of Excise or one of them within the Limitts and Jurisdiction of whose Office he or they doe or shall inhabite erect sett up alter or enlarge any Tun Fatt, Backe Cooler or Copper and shall make use of any of them for the brewing or makeing any Beere or Ale or Worts, or shall make use of or keepe any private and concealed Storehouse Celler or other place for the laying of any Beere or Ale or Worts in Caske other then such as are already openly sett up, erected and made use of in his common and usuall Brewhouse and now openly discovered and knowne upon paine to forfeite the summe of Fifty pounds for every Tun, Fatt, Backe, Copper and Cooler sett up and made use of without such notice given [X1thereof] as aforesaid and contrary to the true intent and meaneing hereof, And that all and every other person or persons in whose occupation any House Messuage Outhouse or other place whatsoever is or shall be where any such private and concealed Tun, Back, Cooler or Storehouse shall be found and discovered shall alsoe forfeite and lose the summe of Fifty pounds to be leavyed and recovered in manner and forme as in and by this present Act is hereafter directed and ordained, And moreover every such private and concealed Tun, Fatt, Backe, Copper or Cooler soe discovered and found as aforesaid or altered or enlarged together with all Beere Ale or Worts therein being shall and may be taken up, seized carryed away and delivered to the Overseers for the Poore to be sold for the use of the Poore or distributed amongst them.
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