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Penalty on
Brewers ufing

unmalted Corn.
First Offence
2001.

500l. &c.

fuch Perfon fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and if any Copper in the Brewery or on the Premises of any Perfon fo licensed fhall be used for any Purpofe of Distillation, every fuch Copper, and all the Contents thereof, and all and every other Veffel and Utenfil in the Brewery or Premiles of fuch Perfon, fhall be forfeited and may be feized, and the Licence of fuch Perfon fhall be and become null and void; and if any Mafh Tun of Keeve, or other Veifel not fo entered or registered, fhall be found in ufe for the Purpofe of making Malt, or containing any ground Malt, every fuch Mash Tun, Keeve, or other Veffel, and the Contents thereof, fhall be forfeited, and may be feized.

IX. And be it further enacted, That from and after Ten Days after the paffing of this Act, no Brewer or other Perlon or Perfors in Ireland making or profeffing to make Beer, Ale, Porter, or Small Beer for Sale, fhall ufe any raw or unmalted Corn in the brewing or Second Offence making of any Beer, Ale, Porter, or Small Beer for Sale, or in the making or preparing of any Liquor to imitate or to refemble, or to be mixed with, or to be used, fold, or difpofed of or delivered as or for Beer, Ale, Porter, or Small Beer, nor fhall any Brewer or other Perfon or Perfons in Ireland fell, difpofe of, fend, or deliver, or cause to be fold, difpofed of, fent, or delivered to any Perfon or Perfons whatever, as or for Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer, any Liquor made or prepared from raw or unmal:ed Corn, or in the making whereof any raw or unmalted Corn fhall have been ufed; and if any Brewer or other Perfon in Ireland, fhall at any Time ufe any raw or unmalted Corn in the brewing or making of any Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer for Sale, or in the brewing, meking, or preparing any Liquor which shall be afterwards fold, difpofed of, or delivered as or for Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer, every fuch Brewer or other Perfon fhall for the first Offence forfeit the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds; and for the second and every fubfequent Offence the Sum of Five hundred Pounds; one half of the faid Forfeitures to be paid to the Informer; and upon Conviction for the third Offence therein, the Licence of fuch Person as a Brewer fhall be null and void; and all Liquor fo made or prepared from raw or unmalted Corn in the Brewery or Stores of any fuch Brewer or other Perfon or Perfons in Ireland, brewing Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer for Sale, or profefling fo to do, together with every Copper, Cooler, Back, Tua, Vat, or other Veffel or Utenfil whatsoever in which any fuch Liquor hall be contained, or which fhall have been made ufe of or employed for or in the Brewery, making or preparing fuch Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer for Sale as aforelaid, fhall be forfeited, and may be feized by any Officer or Officers of Excife in Ireland.

For registering
Barley Stores in
Breweries.

X. And be it further enacted, That from and after Ten Days after the paffing of this Act, every Perfon or Perfons licensed to brew Strong Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer for Sale, who fhall have any Malthouse adjoining to or connected, or communicating with his Brewery, fhall enter and regifter at the Excife Office of the Diftrict, Every Store Room and Piace belonging to fuch Malthoufe, in which Barley, or Grain called Bere or Big fhall be depofited, and that no Store for Barley or Grain called Bere or Big fhall in any Cafe be adjoining to or connected with, or be open by Means of any Door or Doorway immediately to the Place in fuch Brewery where any Malt fhall be wetted or mashed, or any Worts fhall be boiled, cooled, or

hopped;

hopped; and all Barley or Grain called Bere or Big, which shall be found in any Part of fuch Brewery or Malthoufe, other than in fuch Room or Place fo registered, and fo feparate and apart from such Brewery, fhall be forfeited and may be feized, and the Perfon or Perfons in whofe Stores, Cuftody or Poffeffion fuch Barley or Grain called Bere or Big fhall be found, fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

XI. And be it further enacted, That from and after Ten Days For registering after the paffing of this At, every Perfon or Pafons licenfed to Cat Sures in brew as aforefaid, fhall in like Minner enter ad regifter in the Breweries. Excife Office of the District, every Store Room and Place in which Oats fhail or may at any Time be depofited, and that no fuch Store Room or Place fhall be adjoining to or connected with. or be open by means of any Door or Doorway immediately to the Place where any Malt fhall be wetted or mashed, or any Worts fhall be boile', cooled, or hopoed; and any Oats which fhall be found in the Poff ffi en of any fuch Perfon or Perfons, in any other Piace than a Store or Place fo registered, fhall be forfeited and may be feized; and fuch Perfon or Perfons in whofe Cuftody, Store or Poffeffion, fuch Outs shall be found, shall for every fuch Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

bruifed in Brew

eries, thall be

XII. And be it further enacted, That from and after Ten Days Raw Corn after the paffing of this Act, no Brewer or other Perfon in Ireland ground or making or profeffing to make Ale, Beer, Porter, or Smail Beer, fhall have in his or her Brewery, or in any Part of the Premises connected forfeited. with his or her Brewery, any raw or unmalted Corn ground or bruifed, and that all raw or unmalted Corn ground or bruifed, which fhall be found in fuch Brewery or Premifes, together with all Sacks, Veffels or Packages in which fuch raw Corn ground or bruifed shall be contained, and all Carts, Drays, and other Carriages on which fuch raw Corn or unmalted Corn belonging to fuch Brewer or Perfon, ground or bruifed, fhall be found in the Courfe of Conveyance, and all Horfes attached to every fuch Cart, Dray or other Carriage, fhall be forfeited, and may be respectively seized by any Officer or Officers of the Excife.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after Ten Days, Penalty for after the paffing of this Act. ro Brewer or other Perfon in Ireland using Drugs in fhall ufe any Sugar Water, Distillers' Spent-wafh, Sugar, Melaffes, brewing, 100l. Vitriol, Quaffia, Coculus Indicus, Grains of Paradife, Guinea Pepper, Opium, or any Ingredient whatfoever, which fhall poffefs any deleterious or unwholefome Quality, in the making or brewing of any Beer, Porter, Ale or Small Beer; and if any Brewer or other Perfon fhall ufe any fuch Ingredients in the brewing or making of any Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer, every tuch Brewer or other Person fhall forfeit for every such Off nce the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and all Liquor in the brewing of which any fuch Sugar Water, Distillers' Spent-wafh, Sugar, Melaffes, Vitriol, Quaffia, Coculus Indicus, Grains of Paradife, Guinea Pepp r, Opium, or any Ingredent which hall poffefs any deleterious or unwholefome Quality thall have been used, and all fuch Sugar Water, Diltillers' Spent-wah, Sugar, Melaffes, Vitriol, Quaffia, Coculus Indicus, Grains of Paradife, Guinea Pepper, Opium, or Ingredient, in the Brewery or Stores of every fuch Brewer or other Perion, together with every Copper, Cooler, Back, Tun, Vat or other Veffel in which any fuch Liquor,

Material

Colouring for
Porter.

Bounty to
Retailers of
Beer to be
difcontinued.

A.D. 1809 Material, or other Ingredient fhall be contained, or which fhall have been made use of or employed for brewing fuch Beer, Porter, Ale, or Small Beer as aforefaid, fhall be forfeited, and may be feized or fpilled and deftroyed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained fhall be conftrued to prevent any Porter Brewer from ufing any Article known by the Name of Colouring, provided that the fame shall be made or prepared from burnt Sugar only, and reduced to a bitter Liquid by the Infufion of Water; and if any Brewer shall use in the brewing of Beer, Porter, Ale, or Snail Beer, any Extract from Sugar not of the atorefaid Defeription, or any Colouring poflefling any deleterious or unwhole fome Quality whatsoever, fuch Beer, Ale, Porter, or Small Beer, and fuch Extract from Sugar and Colouring, which fhall be found in the Brewery or Stores of fuch Brewer, fhall be forfeited, and fhall and may be feized or spilled and deftroyed, and all Veffels in which the fame fhall be contained fhall be forfeited and may be feized, and fuch Brewer fhall alfo for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

XIV. And whereas the Ailowances made by Law to Perfons retailing Beer, Porter. or Ale, are not neceffary to be continued longer than until the Twenty-ninth Day of September, One Thoufand eight Hundred and nine, be it therefore enacted, That it fhall not be lawful for any Perfon licenfed to fell Spirituous Liquors, Wine, Beer, Ale and Cyder by Retail, in the Cities of Dublin, Cork, Waterford or Limerick, to require, demand or receive any Certificate from the Commiflioners of Excife, for the Purpofe of claiming any Bounty in refpect of any Quantity of Strong Beer or Ale, that fuch Perfon may have fold by Retail in the Year ending the Twentyninth Day of September One thoufand eight hundred and nine, or within any fubfequent Year; and that it shall not be lawful for the Commiffioners of Excile to give or grant any fuch Certificate, ror for the Commiffioners of Stamp Duties in Ireland to pay any Bounties to any fuch Perfons in refpect of any Quantity of Strong Beer or Ale fold by fuch Perfon by Retail within the faid Year, or within any fubfequent Year, any Thing in an A&t made in the Forty-filth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for regulating Licences for the Sale of Spirituous Liquors, Wine, Beer, Ale and Cyder by Retail, and for difcouraging the immoderate Ufe of Spirituous Liquors in Ireland, or in an Act made in the Forty-fixth Year of His prefent 46 G. 3. c. 64. Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aa to repeal the feveral Duties under the Care of the Commiffioners for managing the Duties upon ftamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper in Ireland, and to grant new and additional Duties in lieu thereof, and to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties in Ireland, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

45 G. 3. c. 50. § 67.

§ S.

Powers of

45 G. 3. c. 53.
applied to
this Act.

XV. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Forfeitures under this At fhall be recovered, levied, and applied in fuch Manner as is directed by the faid recited A&t of the Forty-fifth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ad for the Colletion of the Malt Duties in Ireland, and regulating the Trade of a Maltter, with refpect to Penalties and Forfeitures under the faid recited Act, and that all the Powers, Claufes, Provifions, Rules and Regulations contained in the faid recited Act, or in any Act or A&s for amending the fame, fhall be applied in the Execution of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the faid Claufes, Provifions, Rules and Regulations were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, and that

the

the faid recited A&t and this A&t shall be conftrued together as one Act. fo far as the fame are confiftent and compatible with each other, and as the faid recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year is altered and amended by this Act, or by any other Act or Acts in Force at the Time of the paffing of this Act.

"At may be altered this Seffion. § 16.

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CA P. LVIII.

An Act to explain and render more effectual an Act, passed
in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-fixth Year of His
prefent Majefty's Reign, for the Encouragement and Relief
of Friendly Societies.
[3d June 1809.]

HEREAS by an Act, made in the Parliament of Ireland

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in the Thirty-fixth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, 'intituled, An Ad for the Encouragement and Relief of Friendly So Irish Act, cieties, reciting that feveral benevolent and charitable Inititutions 36 G. 3. c. 58. and Societies had been formed in Ireland, for the Purpofe of relieving by voluntary Subfcriptions and Benefactions the Widows, Orphans, and Families of the Clergy, both of the eftablished Church and Diffenters, and others in diftreffed Circumstances; certain Regulations were made for the Benefit of fuch of the faid Charitable Inftitutions and Societies as fhould procure the Rules for the Distribution and Management of their Funds, to be prefented to the Juftices of the Peace at any Quarter Seffions to be holden within the Time limited in the faid Act: And whereas it is expedient to extend the Benefits of the faid Act to fuch Charitable Inftitutions and Societies, for the Purposes aforeíaid, as may have omitted to register their Rules for the Diltribution and Management of their Funds, within the Time limited by the faid recited A&t; and alfo < to fuch Charitable Inftitutions and Societies for the Purposes aforefaid, as have been inftituted fince the faid recited Act, or may hereafter be inftituted Be it therefore enacted by the King's mot Excellent Majefty, bv and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Members of any Charitable Inlitution or Society, which, at any Time before the paffing of the faid recited A& or this A&t, fhall have been eftablished, or which at any Time after the paffing of this Act fhall and may be established in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland for the Purposes aforefaid, to frame good and whole fome Rules, Orders, and Regulations, for the Management and Diftribution of their Funds, and fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations, from Time to Time to amend and alter, and to make new Rules as occafion fhail require, and as fhall appear neceflary to the Majority of the faid Societies refpectively at their regular Publick Meetings, or any Ad. journment thereof, fo as fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations fhall not be repugnant to the Laws in force in Ireland, or to any of the exprefs Provifions or Regulations of the faid recited A&.

All Friendly
Societies

inftituted either
before or after

paffing the recited A&t may frame Rules for the Management

of their Funds.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all fuch Rules, Or- Such Rules fhall ders, and Regulations, shall be exhibited in Writing under the Signa- be fubmitted to ture of the Chairman, Prefident, Moderator, or Regifter of fuch So. the Quarter

cieties

Seffions, who may confirm

them.

Societies, whofe
Rules fhall be fo

be entitled to the Benefit of recited Act.

cieties respectively, with all convenient Speed after the fame fhall have been made, altered, or amended, to the Affiftant Barrister and Juftices of the Peace aflembied at the General Quarter Seffions of the Peace, or at any Adjournment thereof, in and for the County, County of a Cry, or County of a Town where fuch Charitable Inftitution or Society fhall be refpectively establifhed; and fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations fhail be fubject to the Review of fuch Affistant Barrister and Juftices; and in cafe fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations fhall be found upon Examination by the faid Affittant Barrister and Juftices, either at the then or the then next fubfequent S fion to contain nothing repugnant to the Laws of this Realm, or the exprefs Provifion of the faid recited A&t, fuch Affidant Barrifter and Juftices shall and may, and they are hereby authoriz-d, empowered, and required to order the Çerk of the Peace to fign the fame, and to file a Duplicate of fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations, and to depofit the fame with the Rolls of faid Seffions, in like Manner as is required by the faid recited Act in other like Cafes; And in cafe it fhall happen that any fuch Charitable Inflitution or Society fhall confit of Members refiding in more Counties than one, then and in fuch Cafe all fuch Rules, Orders, and Regulations may and fhall be confirmed and registered as aforefaid by the Affitant Barrister and Juftices in and for the County in which fuch Society fhali be eftablished, or in any other County felected for that Purpote by fuch Society, and wherein any of the Members of fuch Society shall refide.

III. And be it further enacted, That all fuch Charitable Societies or Inflitutions for the Purpofes aforefaid, whofe Rules, Orders, and confirined, thall Regulations fhall at any Time after the paffing of this A&t be fo approved and filed as herein directed, fhall be entitled to the Benefit of the faid recited A&t of the Thirty-fixth Year aforefaid, and of all the Claufes and Provins in the faid Act contained, in relation to the Appointment of a Treasurer or Treasurers, Trufce or Trustees, and to the taking Security from fuch Treasurer, and to the lending of any Part of the Capital Stock or Fund of fuch Societies or Inftitutions on Publick or Private Securities, and to the protecting, fecuring, transferring, or recovering the fame, and the faid recited A&t shall extend and be construed to extend to all such Charitable Inflitutions and Societies with relation to the feveral Matters before mentioned, as fully as if the fame were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.

Funds of the

Societies thall be applied to the Purposes of the Societies only.

to any

1V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it fhall not be law. ful for any Treasurer or other Officer entrusted with Monies belonging fuch Charitable Society or Inftitution for the Purposes afore faid, to apply or appropriate any Part thereof under any Pretext whatever, to any Ufes or Purpofes other than the Payment of the Annuities to the Widows, Orphans, or Families of deceafed Members of fuch Charitable Societies or Inftitutions entitled to the fame, excepting only fach reafonable Salary for his Trouble and Expence attending the Management of the Funds of any fuch Charitable Society or Inftitution refpectively, as fhall be allowed to fuch Treasurer or Officer in the regular Settlement of his Accounts, with the Members, Trustees, or Governors thereof; and that any Surplus remaining in the Hands of any Perfon being fuch Treasurer or other Officer, after paying the Annuities and deducting the Salary and Expences of Management as aforefaid, fhall be added to and accounted for as Part of the Capital Stock or Fund of the Charitable Society or Inftitution

respectively,

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