Section X

Common Distiller, &c. setting up Tun, Cask, &c.; or keeping private Tun Warehouse, &c.; without giving Notice,; Penalty £20; Concealing such Tun, &c; Penalty £50.

And whereas it is found by Experience that notwithstanding the Penalties imposed by former Acts many Distillers do erect and sett upp private Backs Stills and other Vessells by which His Majesty is much defrauded of his Duties of Excise Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no co[m]mon Distiller or Maker of Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters for Sale or Exportation shall att any time after the said Tenth Day of Aprill erect or sett upp any Tun Cask Wash-batch Copper Still or other Vessell for the brewing making or keeping of any Worts Wash Low Wines Spiritts or Strong Waters nor alter or enlarge any Tun Cask Wash-batch Copper Still or other Vessell already erected or sett upp nor shall have or keep any private or concealed Tun Cask Wash-batch Copper Still or other Vessell nor any private or concealed Warehouse Storehouse Celler or other Place for the brewing making laying or keeping any Worts Wash Low Wines Spirits or Strong Waters without first giving Notice thereof att the next Office of Excise within the Limitts or Jurisdiction whereof hee or they do or shall inhabitt upon paine to forfeit for every Tun Cask Wash-batch Copper Still Warehouse Storehouse Celler or other Place so erected or sett upp altered or enlarged kept private or concealed the Su[m]m of Twenty pounds and that all and every Person or Persons in whose Occupation any House Outhouse or other Place whatsoever is or shall be where any such private or concealed Tun Cask Wash batch Copper Still Warehouse Storehouse or Celler shall be discovered or found shall also forfeit and lose the Su[m]m of Fifty pounds.