Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor; and seize and stave the same. and in case any such Spirituous Liquors or Strong Waters shall be found therein (except such as are directed to be used medicinally as aforesaid) it shall and may be lawful for such Constable, Headborough or Overseer of the Poor, to seize such Spirituous Liquors or Strong Waters, and to cause the same to be forthwith staved and destroyed.
Persons carrying Liquors into such Houses, XV. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person shall carry or bring, or attempt or endeavour to carry or bring any distilled Spirituous Liquors (except to be used in the way of Medicine as &c. herein before-mentioned) into any Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor; and if any Person or Persons shall offend therein, it shall be lawful for the Gaoler, Keeper, Master or Chief Officer of such Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor, or his or their Servants, to apprehend such Person or Persons, and to carry him, her or them before a Justice of the Peace of the County, Divifion, City, Town Corporate to be taken before a Justice; or Liberty, where such Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor is situate (who is hereby impowered to hear and determine such Offence in a summary Way, and to administer an Oath to the Witnesses);
and on Conviction, to be committed, or pay a sum not exceeding 201. nor less than 10l. and if by the Oath of one credible Witness or otherwise, he shall convict such Person or Persons of such Offence, he shall forthwith commit such Offender or Offenders to Prison, or to the House of Correction, there to be kept in Custody for any Time not exceeding three Months, without Bail or Mainprize, unless such Offenders respectively shall immediately pay down such Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding twenty Pounds, and not less than ten Pounds, as the Justice shall impose upon such Offenders severally, as their Fines; Application of the Forfeiture. to be paid, one Moiety to the Informer, and the other Moiety to the Use of the Poor of such Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor.
A Copy of the three preceding Clauses, to be kept hung up in Gaols, &c. under Penalty 40 s. XVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Gaoler, Keeper, Master and Chief Officer of every Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house and House of Entertainment for Parish Poor, shall on or before the first Day of August one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, procure one or more Copy or Copies of the three preceding Clauses, to be printed or fairly written, and and hung up in one of the most publick Places of his Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor, and renew the same from Time to Time, so that it may be always kept fair and legible; on pain of forfeiting the Sum of forty Shillings for every wilful Default, to be levied by Warrant of any Justice of the Peace of the County, Division, City, Town Corporate or Liberty of where such Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor, shall be situate, to be granted on Conviction of such Default, in a summary Way, before such Justice, by the Oath of one or more credible Witness or Witnesses (which Oath such Justice is hereby impowered to administer); Justice may demand a Sight thereof; and it shall and may be lawful for every Justice of Peace, to enter into any Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor, within the Limits of his Jurisdiction, and demand a Sight of such Copy so hung up as aforefaid; and if the same be not fair, may convict the Gaoler, &c. and if the same shall not be forthwith shewn to him so hung up in some publick Place, fair and legible as aforesaid, such Justice shall and may immediately convict such Gaoler, Keeper, Master or Officer of such Default, and so, from Time to Time, as often as he shall think fit; Application of the Penalty. one Moiety of the said Penalty to be paid to the Informer, and the other Moiety (or the whole if there be no Informer) to the Use of the Poor of such Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, Work-house or House of Entertainment for Parish Poor.
Justices to transmit monthly, to the Clerk of the Peace, a Certificate of Persons convicted, XVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark, or within the Limits of the Head Office of Excise in London, shall once in every Month transmit to the Clerk of the Peace for the County where they act, a Certificate of all Persons convicted before them respectively, for any Offences committed against this or any former Act or Acts of Parliament, relating to Spirituous Liquors or Strong Waters, or for licensing the Retailers thereof; to be entered among the Records, &c. who is hereby authorized and required to keep and enter the same among the publick Records of the Court of the Quarter-Sessions of the Counties respectively, where such Conviction shall be so certified; which Certificates shall be Evidence upon any Information directed by this or any other Act relating to Spirituous Liquors.
8 & 9 W. 3. c. 19. 'XVIII. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the eighth and ninth Years of the Reign of his Majesty King William the Third, (intituled, An Act for repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles, and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers, and others chargeable with the Duties of Excise;) it was (amongst other Things) enacted, That no common Distiller or Maker of Low Wines, Spirits or Strong Waters for Sale or Exportation, should at any Time after the tenth Day of April one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven, erect or set up any Tun, Cask, Washbatch, Copper, Still or other Vessel for the brewing, making or keeping any Worts, Wash, Low Wines, Spirits or Strong Waters, nor alter or enlarge any Tun, Cask, Washbatch, Copper, Still or other Vessel already erected or set up, nor should have or keep any private or concealed Tun, Cask, Washbatch, Copper, Still or other Vessel, nor any private or concealed Warehouse, Storchouse, Cellar or other Place for the brewing, making, laying or keeping any Worts, Wash, Low Wines, Spirits or Strong Waters, without first giving Notice thereof at the next Office of Excise, within the Limits or Jurisdiction whereof he or they did or should inhabit; upon pain of forfeiting for every Tun, Cask, Washbatch, Copper, Still, Warehouse, Storehouse, Cellar or other Place, so erected or set up, altered or enlarged, kept private or concealed, the Sum of twenty Pounds; and that all and every Person or Persons in whose Occupation any House, Out-house or other Place whatsoever, was or should be, where any such Private or concealed Tun, Cask, Washbatch, Copper, Still, Warehouse, Storehouse or Cellar should be discovered or found, should also forfeit and lose the Sum of fifty Pounds: Andwhereas
