Acts. 501

tailers or Consumers of the Liquors aforesaid; and the Collectors
and Deputies, as aforesaid, are hereby impowered, directed, and
required, to enter into such Ships, Sloops, or other Vessels, to gauge
or seize such Liquors in like Manner as he or they are impowered
and required to enter, seize, or gauge, the Liquors in the Houses,
Stores, Cellars, Vaults, Shops, or other Places, of any of the Re-
tailers as aforesaid.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And for the better collecting the several Duties and Impositions
on the Liquors aforesaid, that now are, or hereafter shall be, in thf
Possession of any of the Inhabitants of or Residents in this Province,
not being Retailers, and reserved for their own private Use and Con-
sumption; Be it Enacted, That every House-keeper, Inhabitant or
Resident, not being a Retailer, who hath in his House, Cellar, Vault,
or other Place, any of the Liquors aforesaid, reserved as aforesaid,
except Brandy, or other Spirits, made, distilled, or drawn from
Grain, or Fruit, of the Growth and Produce of this Province, shall,
and is hereby required, on or before the twentieth Day of June, in
the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty-six, to make a true
and perfect Entry upon Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, with the

[House-
keepers, &c.
not being
Retailers,
their Duty.]

Collector, or any Magistrate of the County where he shall be resident
(a Certificate of which Entry the Magistrate is hereby required, as

soon as may be, to send to the Collector of each respective County)

to the best of his Knowledge, of the Quantity of the said Rum, Wine
or Spirits, which, at the Time of making such Entry, shall be in his
Possession, and reserved as aforesaid; and every such House-keeper,
Inhabitant and Resident, shall, and he is hereby required to account
with upon Oath, and pay to the said Collectors, or their Deputies
respectively, at or within one Month after Michaelmas and Lady-
Day, yearly, for so much as he shall have consumed, all and every
the Duties, Rates, and Impositions above laid on the Liquors in his
Possession, and entered with the Collector or Magistrate as above,
such Collector making an Allowance of Fifteen per Centum for
Leakage, on all Liquors in Cask, and not Bottled, which shall be so
entered.

p. 230

And be it further Enacted, That when and as often as any such
House-keeper, Inhabitant or Resident, shall, after the twentieth Day
of June next, purchase, or take into his, her, or their House, Cellar,
Vault, or other Place, or reserve, or lay by, any further or other
Quantity of Wine, Rum, or other Spirits, except as before excepted,
and except Liquors purchased from any Retailers, under the Quan-
tities herein before limited, for his, her, or their own private Use or
Consumption, he, she, or they shall, within one Month after pur-
chasing or receiving such Wine, Rum, or other Spirits, into his, her,
or their House, Cellar, Vault, or other Place, or reserving, or laying
by as aforesaid, for the Use aforesaid, make true and perfect Entry
on Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, of the Quantity of all such

[House-
keepers &c.
who. after
the 20th of
June, shall
purchase
any Wine,
Rum. &c.
except
Liquors pur-
chased from
Retailers,
&c. shall
make true
Entries on
Oath and
pay the
Duty within
one Month.]