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shall be amerced according to his offence if it be not over 

 grievous. But if the offence be grievous and often and will not 

 be corrected then he shall suffer punishment of the body. That is 

 to wit, a baker to the pillory and a brewer to the tumbrel, or some 

 other correction. 



Also of the assize of ale in the court of the town how it is, and 

 whether it be observed ; and if not, how much brewers have 

 sold contrary to the assize ; and they shall present their names 

 distinctly and openly, and that they be amerced for every default 

 or to be judged to the tumbrel, if they sell contrary to the assize. 



Ale shall be sold according to the price of barley. When a 

 quarter of barley is sold for two shillings then four quarts of ale 

 shall be sold for a penny ; when for two shillings sixpence then 

 seven quarts of ale shall be sold for twopence. 



42 George III. cap. 38, 1802. (Repealed.} 



Sec. XXI. AND be it further enacted that no brewer or brewers 

 of, or dealers or sellers of beer or ale shall receive or take into his, 

 her or their custody or possession any stale beer or beer grounds, 

 or shall mix or mingle with any beer or ale any liquor compounded, 

 fabricated, or prepared from beer grounds, stale beer, sugar- 

 water, distillers' spent wash, sugar molasses, vitriol, quassia, 

 coculus-indice, grains of paradise, guinea pepper, opium, or any 

 other materials or ingredient (except malt and hops) or in the 

 fabrication, manufacture, or preparation whereof any beer 

 grounds, stale beer, sugar worts, &c., is or shall be mixed, employed 

 or made use of, nor shall have, receive, or take into his, her, or 

 their custody or possession, any liquor compounded, fabricated, 

 or prepared as aforesaid, on pain of forfeiting for every such 

 offence the sum of 100. 



Sec. XXV. AND be it further enacted that if any question 

 shall arise whether any liquor which shall be seized as and for 

 liquor mixed, compounded, fabricated, manufactured, or pre- 

 pared from any other material or ingredient as aforesaid (other 

 than malt and hops) the liquor so mixed, the proof of such liquors 

 not being liquors mixed, compounded, &c., from other materials 

 or ingredients than malt and hops shall be upon the owner or 

 claimant thereof. 



This Act was repealed in 1861 by 24 & 25 Vic. c. 101, 

 Lord Palmerston and Mr. Gladstone being then in office. 



56 George III. (1816), c. 58. An Act to repeal an Act made in 

 the fifty-first year of George III., intituled an Act for allow- 

 ing the manufacture and use of a liquor prepared from sugar 

 for colouring porter. 



WHEREAS, &c., liquor commonly called or known by the name 

 of beer colouring, and whereas great frauds have been and are 

 committed upon the Revenue and also upon the brewers and 

 the public under pretence of using such colouring, &c. 



