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or take Account of the Liquors aforesaid, such Retailer shall
be forthwith forbidden by such Collector to sell by Retail,
any of the Liquors aforesaid; and if any Retailer after such
Warning given, shall presume to vend, barter, or sell, any
of the Liquors aforesaid, such Retailer shall forfeit, besides
the Forfeiture of double the Value of such Liquors by him
retailed, the sum of twenty Pounds Current Money; to be
recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information,
wherein no Essoin protection, or Wager of Law to be allowed
or more than one Imparlance.
Provided always, that there shall be allowed by the Col-
lectors, or their Deputies, unto the several Retailers of the
Liquors aforesaid, fifteen p Centum for Leakage or Wast-
age; and the said Collectors are hereby required to keep true
and fair Accounts of all their Doings, in virtue of this Act,
which Account they shall lay before the general Assembly
of this Province at every Session for their Examination; and
the said Collectors and each of them shall half yearly, at
Michaelmas and Lady Day, deliver Account, upon Oath, and
make Payment to the Commissioners, or Trustees of the
Loan Office for the time being of all such Sums of Money as
they shall receive by virtue of this Act for the uses above
mentioned, and expressed, deducting out of the same ten p
Cent, for their Trouble, and Care in collecting and paying
the same and deducting also, one Moiety of all the Forfeit-
ures by them recovered, for any Offence committed against
this Act, after Charges paid and satisfied.
And be it further Enacted, that every Person, or Persons
who, shall after the 20th Day of June aforesaid, sell or dis-
pose of, at one time, the Quantity of fifty Gallons, or up-
wards, of Rum, Brandy, or other distilled Spirits herein
before mentioned, or twenty five Gallons or upwards of
Wine, except from Great Britain, shall every three Months
or oftener if required deliver to the Collector of the respec-
tive County, where the Person to whom he shall sell, or dis-
pose of the same shall reside a List under his Hand express-
ing the seperate Quantities, and Species of all such Liquors,
the Place of Abode and Name of the Person to whom, and
the time when sold. And if any such Person shall refuse or
delay to deliver such List as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and
pay the Sum of five Pounds Current Money for every such
Offence, to be recovered in the County where such Offender
shall reside, by Action of Debt Bill, Plaint, or Information,
wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more
than one Imparlance, shall be allowed, one half thereof to
be paid to the Informer, or him, or them that shall sue for the
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