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thereafter purchase, or bring into his her or their House,
Cellar, Vault, or Store, or reserve or lay by as aforesaid,
for the use aforesaid any quantities of the said Liquors,
except as before excepted, and shall not within one Month
thereafter, make Entry on Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker,
as aforesaid of the quantity of such Liquor, and pay the Duty
thereon, as aforesaid: such Person, or Persons so offending
shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty Pounds Current
Me/ney, to be recover'd by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or
Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of
Law shall be allowed, nor more than one Imparlance. Pro-
vided always, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
that every House-Keeper or Resident, not being a Retailer,
who shall not choose to make Entry, account for and pay
to the said Collector the Duties aforesaid, in manner afore-
said, shall, and may pay to the said Collector half yearly,
at Lady Day and Michaelmas the Sum of twenty Shillings
Current Money, in lieu of the said Duties, and in default
thereof the said Collector shall collect, and levy the said
Sum in manner and form as by this Act is before directed,
in Case of Retailers neglecting or refusing to pay the Duty
aforesaid by the Space of ten Days after the same ought to
be paid.
And whereas the Duty of two pence p: Gallon on all
Madeira Wine imported into this Province by an Act of As-
sembly intituled An Act for his Majestys service made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis,
the seventeenth Day of July, seventeen hundred and fifty
four, is directed to be paid & applied, towards replacing the
sum of six thousand pounds by that Act directed and de-
livered to be paid out by the Commissioners for emitting
Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly which Duty
of two Pence p Gallon by this Act is taken off, by means
whereof the said Sum of six thousand pounds will not be
repaid and replaced as soon as by the said Act was intended.
Be it therefore Enacted, that the Sum of two pence p
Gallon, part of the six pence p Gallon by this Act imposed
on all Madeira Wine hereafter to be imported, which shall
be retailed or consumed shall by the several Collectors of
Excise established by this Act be paid to the said Commis-
sioners, to be by them applied towards replacing the said Sum
of six thousand Pounds, until the said Sum of six thousand
Pounds is repaid and replaced, by the Rates and Duties by the
aforesaid Act imposed; and that thereafter the whole Duty
of six Pence, on all Madeira as aforesaid shall be paid and
applied as by this Act is before directed.
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