APPENDIX A. 



Since tlie portion of this bulletin relating to rnalt liquors was written, 

 a bill has been introduced into the British Parliament dealing with the 

 question of the use of substitutes for hops and rnalt in beer brewing; 

 the text of this bill is as follows : 1 



A BILL for better securing the purity of beer, (A. D. 1887.) 



Whereas it is expedient, with a view to enable the public to distinguish between 

 beer brewed from hops and malt from barley and beer composed of other ingredients, 

 to amend the law relating to the sale of beer : 



Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad- 

 vice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 



(Short title.) 1. This act may be cited as the Pure Beer Act, 1887. 



(Declaration of ingredients on selling leer.) 2. Every person who sells or exposes for 

 sale, by wholesale or retail, any beer brewed from or containing any ingredients other 

 than hops and malt from barley shall keep conspicuously posted at the bar or other 

 place where such beer is sold or exposed for sale, a legible notice stating what other 

 ingredients are contained in such beer. Any person who sells or exposes for sale any 

 such beer as aforesaid without complying with the above enactment shall be liable to 

 a fine not exceeding in the case of the first offense five pounds, and in the case of the 

 second or any subsequent offense twenty pounds. Any fine incurred under this section 

 may be recovered summarily by any informer, and one-half of the fine shall in every 

 case be paid to the informer. 



{Definition of beer.) 3. In this act the term " beer" includes beer (other than black 

 or spruce beer), ale, and porter. 



(Commencement of act.) 4. This act shall come into operation on the first day of Jan- 

 uary, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. 



A BILL for better securing the purity of beer. (A. D. 1887.) 



Whereas it is expedient, with a view to the better protection of the public from 

 adulteration of beer, to amend the law relating to the sale of beer: 



Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad- 

 vice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



(Short title.) 1. This act may be cited as the Beer Adulteration Act, 1887. 



(Penalty on selling beer containing other ingredients than hops and malt without giving 

 notice.) 2. Every person who sells or exposes for sale by wholesale or retail any beer 

 brewed from or containing any ingredients other than hops and malt from barley, 

 shall keep conspicuously posted at the bar, or other place where such beer is sold or 

 exposed for sale, a legible notice stating that other ingredients are contained in such 

 beer. 



Analyst, 1887, 99. 



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