Section IV

Brewers to take up, &c. their Pipes, Stop-cocks, and other Conveyances under Ground,; and stop up the Hole in every Tun, Batch, &c.; Brewer keeping such Pipe, &c; Penalty £100.

And forasmuch as it is found by experience that his Majesty is very much defrauded of his Duties of Excise by many Brewers who by private Pipes and Stopcocks under Ground and other private Conveyancs have Co[m]munication between their Strong Beer Tuns and their Small Beer Tuns whereby they do privately mix the Small Beer with their Strong Beer or Ale and also convey their Beer Ale or Worts from the sight and view of the Gaugers appointed to gauge and take an Account of the same which is also prejudicial to other Brewers who work faire and pay His Majesty His full Duty Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that every Co[m]mon Brewer having or keeping any Pipe or Stopcock under Ground or any other private Pipe or other private Conveyance in or about his Brew house by which any Beer Ale or Worts may be conveyed from one Tun or Brewing Vessell private Conveyance by which any Beer Ale or Worts may be conveyed from one Tun or Brewing Vessell to another or out of any such Tun or Brewing Vessel into any other Place nor shall have or keep any hole in any Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven take upp or demolish every such Pipe Stop-cock and other private Conveyance and shall also stop upp every hole in every Tun Batch or Float by which any Beer Ale or Words may be conveyed into or out of such Tun Batch or Float or any of them and that no Common Brewer from and after the said Eight and twentieth Day of April shall have or keep any such Pipe Stopcock or other private Conveyance by which any Beer Ale or Words may be conveyed from one Tun or Brewing Vessell to another or out of any such Tun or Brewing Vessel into any other Place nor shall have or keep any hole in any such Tun Batch or Float by which any Beer Ale or Worts may be conveyed into or out of such Tun Batch or Float or any of them on paine to forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of One hundred pounds.