# Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696, Section XV: Selling, &c. Malt or Malt Liquor after Composition.


Penalty £50.; and to lose Benefit of Composition.
Provided That if any such Person after such Composition made shall sell exchange barter or deliver out any Malt to any other Person or Persons or shall sell any Beer Ale or other Liquors made of Malt then every such Person shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid and after any such Offence com[m]itted shall lose the benefitt of his her or their Composition aforesaid and shall be liable to the said Duty of Six Pence a Bushel upon Malt and to the Survey and Search of the said Officers as if no such Composition had ever been made Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/22/section/XV (the official version)
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