Section VI Officers upon Request to be permitted Entrance to gauge Cisterns, and take Account of Barley, &c.

Officers to report thereon to the Commissioners, and to leave Copy of Report with Maltster, which shall be a Charge upon him; Refusing Entrance, or to permit Officer to take Account, &c; Penalty £5; Maltster to make Monthly Entries; Penalty £10.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the said Gaugers and Officers which are or shall be so constituted and appointed shall att all times in the Day time be permitted upon their Request to enter the House Malthouse and all other places whatsoever belonging to or used by any Person or Persons whatsoever who att any time or times from and after the said Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety & seven and before the said Twentieth Day of July One thousand six hundred ninety and nine shall make any Malt (either for Sale or not for Sale) and to gauge all Cisterns Uting Fatts Utensils & other Vessells used by any such Malster or Maker of Malt for the wetting or steeping of any Barley or other Corn or Graine for the making of Malt and to gauge measure and take an Account of the just Quantity of the Barley and other Corn or Graine which shall be found wett or steeping in any such Uting Fatt Utensil Cistern or other Vessell or shall have been wetted or steeped in them or any of them for the making of Malt And shall thereof make Returne or Report in Writing to the said Co[m]missioners or such other Person or Persons as they shall appoint to receive the same leaving a true Copy of such Report in Writing under his Hand with such Malster or maker of Malt and such Report or Returne of the said Gaugers shall be a Charge upon such Malster or maker of Malt respectively And if any such Malster or other Person making Malt for Sale or private Use shall refuse to permitt any such Gauger or Officer to enter his House Malt-house or other place aforemenc[i]oed to measure compute and take an Account of all his Malt and to gauge all & every such Uting Fatts Utensils Cisterns and other Vessells and to gauge and take an Account of his Barley or other Corne or Graine in any such Cisterne Uting Fatt Utensil or Vessell every such Malster or other Person shall forfeit and lose for every such Offence the Su[m]m of Five Pounds And that from & after the said Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety X1 seven dureing the Continuance of this Act every Malster or other Person making Malt for Sale or not for Sale shall monthly and every Month make a true Entry att the said Office of Excise of all the Malt by him made in such Month respectively on pain to forfeit for every such neglect the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds.