Acts. 497

Twenty Pounds Current Money, and are hereby declared uncapable
of retailing or selling any of the Liquors aforesaid, during the
Continuance of this Act; and if the Person or Persons liable to pay
the Duties arising upon selling or retailing the Liquors mentioned
in this Act, shall neglect or refuse to pay the same, in the Manner
and at the Times herein limitted and appointed, by the Space of Ten

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Days after the same ought to be paid, it shall and may be lawful for
the said Collectors respectively, by Virtue of a special Warrant for
that Purpose, signed and sealed by any one Justice of the Peace,
of the County where the Offence is committed, to impower the said
Collector to levy the same, by Districts and Sale of Goods and
Chattels of the Offender, rendering the Overplus, if any be, to the
Owner or Owners, after reasonable Charges deducted.
And be it further Enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall

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make short or fraudulent Entires of the Liquors in his or their
Possession as aforesaid, or shall neglect or refuse to enter and give
the Amount of such Liquors as he, she, or they shall receive at any
Time, into his, her, or their House, Store, Cellar, Vault or other-
wise, when thereto required as aforesaid, all such Liquors not en-
tered as aforesaid shall be forfeited, and the Collectors for the
Time being, or their Deputies, are hereby respectively impowered
to enter, at any Time in the Day, when they shall see convenient, the
House, Cellar, Store, Vault or Shop, of any Retailer, and compare
the Liquors in such House, Cellar, Vault, Shop or Store, with the
Quantities, Measures, or Number of Gallons mentioned in the Entries
made, and Accounts given in, and seize and take away all such
Liquors as shall be found not truly entered as aforesaid, together
with the Casks or other Vessels containing the same.

And be it further Enacted, That the Collectors, or their Deputies,

Penalty on
Persons
making short
or fraudulent
Entries.]

in the Presence of the Constable, and two good and lawful Witnesses,
may, on Request by him made, enter the House, Cellar, Vault, Store,
or other Room of such Retailer, in the Day Time, to Gauge all the
Vessels and Liquors aforesaid, and if any such Retailer shall refuse
to permit any such Collector, or their Deputy, to enter as aforesaid,
to Gauge 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 afore-
said, 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.

[Penalty on
Retailers
refusing
entry into
their Houses
to the Col-
lectors, to
gage their
Liquors.]