Section VIII

Brewer setting up or altering any Tun, &c. without Notice to Excise Office, or having Private Tun, &c.; Penalty £200.

And whereas notwithstanding the Penalties already imposed by former Acts it is found by Experience that several Brewers do sett upp and keep private Backs & Tuns by which His Majesty is much defrauded of His Duties of Excise and other Brewers who pay their full Duties are much prejudiced in their Trade thereby Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any co[m]mon Brewer shall att any time after the said Tenth Day of Aprill without Notice thereof first given att the next Office of Excise erect or sett upp any Tun Batch Float Cooler or Copper or shall alter or enlarge any Tun Batch Float Cooler or Copper already erected or sett upp or shall have or keep any private or concealed Tun Batch Float Cooler or Copper other than such as are openly discovered and knowne to be co[m]monly used in his Brew-house or Place of Brewing every such Brewer shall forfeit & lose for every Tun Batch Float Cooler and Copper so erected or sett upp altered or enlarged kept private or concealed without such Notice given as aforesaid the Su[m]m of Two hundred pounds.