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made by him within the preceding year. 43 Giro. III. c. 69. 
If he (ball negledt to takeout fuch licenfe, and renew the 
lame annually, ten days at lealt before the end of the year, 
he fhall forfeit iol. 24 Geo. III. c. 41. No malt lliall be 
imported, on pain of forfeiting the fame and its value. 
12 Ann. c. 2. By the fame act, places for making malt are 
to be entered, on pain of 50I. 
The maltfter is required to give twenty-four hours no¬ 
tice within a city or market-town, and elfewhere forty- 
eight hours notice in-writing to the office, of the time of 
the day when he intends to wet the corn to be made into 
malt; and he fliall not begin but between eight in the 
morning and two in the afternoon ; nor empty any grain 
out of the ciftern, Sec. ufed for wetting or keeping, except 
between (even in the morning and four in the afternoon ; 
the omiffion of fuch notice, Sec. incurs a forfeiture of iool. 
3 Geo. III. c. 13. 42 Geo. III. c. 38. 48 Geo. III. c. 74. 
Out of every twenty bufhels of malt, gauged and charged 
tipon the floor, after the fame fliall have been taken out of 
the cittern or other utenlil, by the fpace of twenty-fix 
hours or more, and before it fhall be dried upon the kiln, 
fliall be allowed ten bufhels, and fo in proportion for any 
greater or lefs quantity. But, if corn be continued under 
water for forty hours before the water be taken from it, 
the maltfter fhall not be entitled to the laid allowance. 
42 Geo. III. c. 38. 33 Geo. II. c. 7. Every round bufhel, 
with a plain bottom, 18J inches wide throughout, and 
eight inches deep, fnall be deemed a legal Winchelter 
bufhel. 12 Ann. c. 2. No maltfter fhall wet, fprinkle, Sec. 
any corn or grain in the procefs of being made into malt, 
after the fame has been emptied out of the fteeping veflel, 
until the expiration of twelve days, or 288 hours, on pain 
of 200I. 48 Geo. III. c. 74. And, if malt be wetted after it 
hath been taken from the kiln, and before it be delivered 
to the brewer who may have agreed for the fame, except in 
the ordinary procefs of brewing beer from fuch malt; every 
fuch offence fhall incur a forfeiture of iool. 42 Geo. III. 
c. 38. And, by 48 Geo. III. c. 74. the penalty incurred 
by every workman, who fhall wet corn contrary to the 
provifions above-mentioned, is 50I. and, in default of pay¬ 
ment, commitment to the houfe of correction for a term 
r.ot exceeding twelve months. But a maltfter may drain 
water from grain vvhilft fteeping before the expiration of 
forty hours after being fir ft wetted; provided that nofuch 
water fliall be drained unlefs the maltfter fliall have given 
notice of the fame, and the precife time between eight in 
the morning and four in the afternoon ; nor fhall the wa¬ 
ter be drained more than once during the faid fpace of 
forty hours; and fuch corn or grain fhall be again com¬ 
pletely covered with water within one hour from the be¬ 
ginning fo to drain. 42 Geo. III. c. 38. Servants of malt- 
iters, beginning to wet or remove any corn or grain in a 
manner contrary to this a£t, may be fined 50I. by any juf- 
tice, who may commit him for non-payment. 48 Geo. III. 
c. 74. By 42 Geo. III. c. 38. excife-officers may at all 
times enter every malt-houfe or place ufed for the making 
of malt, and furvey ; and the penalty of obftruftion is 200I. 
44 Geo. III. c. 34. And, if the officer fliall refufe or ne¬ 
glect (after demand in writing, 12 Geo. II. c. 28.) to leave 
a copy of the gauge for the maker at the time of taking 
it, he fnall forfeit 40s. The officer fliall meafure corn 
making into malt by the gauge only, and not by the 
bufhel^ 12 Ann. c. 2. By 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 10. no per- 
fon fliall make any barley-malt, except in June, July, and 
Auguft, which fliall not be three weeks at lealt in mak¬ 
ing ; nor in thefe months under feventeen days, (unlefs 
it be for his own houfe,) on pain of forfeiting for every 
quarter 2s. ar.d felling of malt, which has not been well 
dreffied, fo that there may not be fanned out of one quarter 
half a peck of duft or more, incurs a forfeiture of 20'd. for 
every quarter ; and mixing bad malt with good for fale is 
liable to a forfeiture of 2s. for every quarter. In the pro¬ 
cefs of malting, prefling of malt in the ciftern to prevent 
its fwelling, mixing corn of one wetting with corn of a 
former wetting, and mixing malt with unnialted corn, in¬ 
cur each of them a penalty of 5s. a-bufhel. 1 Geo. III. c. 3. 
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2 Geo. II. c. 1. 1 Geo. I. c. 2. 48 Geo. III. c , 74. Again, 
mixing of malt that has been gauged with the ungauged, 
fubjedts to a forfeiture of 200I. 1 Geo. III. c. 3. By 48 
Geo. III. c. 74. if any maltfter fhall tread, ram, or other- 
wife force together in the ciftern, &c. any grain fteeping 
or fteeped in order to its being made into malt, he fliall 
forfeit iool. inftead of the fum of 5s. for every bufhel of 
corn or grain fteeping or fteeped, that fliall be fo trodden. 
Sec. mentioned in 48 Geo. III. c. 2. and if any corn or 
grain, in the procefs of making malt, be found fo hard and 
compadt, as to manifeft its having been forced together 
for preventing its rifing and fwelling, the maltfter, dec. in 
fuch cafe fhall forfeit iool. 
If any maltfter, &c. fliall fraudulently conceal any grain 
making into malt from the view of the gauger, or officer 
appointed to take an account of the fame, he fliall forfeit 
200I. 48 Geo. III. c. 74. And any maltfter fraudulently 
conveying away from the ciftern, &c. any fteeping or part 
of any fteeping of corn making into malt, fo that no gauge 
can be taken in the back by the officer, fliall forfeit iool. 
1 Geo. III. c. 3. 48 Geo. III. c. 74. By the latter adt, the 
penalty for eredfing or extending citterns, & c. for the ma- 
nufadture of malt, without previous notice, is 200I. The 
maltfter is required to make monthly entry at the office-of 
excife of all the malt made by him in fuch month, (for 
fale'or not for fale,) on pain of iool. 12 Ann. c, 2. 44 
Geo. III. c. 34. 
By 48 Geo. III. c. 74. every maltfter (hall, within the 
fpace of fourteen days next after the time of entry (as 
before), clear away all the duties, unlefs fecurity fhall 
have been given, to the fatisfadlion of the commiifioners 
of excife, by bond in double the value of fuch duties as 
are likely to become due within any five months, for the 
due payment at the end of every four months at the day 
of entry ; and, if fuch fecurity be not given, and any malt¬ 
fter, See. negledl to clear off at the end of fourteen days 
fuch lums as fliall have become due, he fhall for every 
fuch offence forfeit double the duties. 
A drawback of the duty is allowed for malt damaged 
in exportation, and alfo for malt deftroyed by fire or wa¬ 
ter. 12 Ann. c. 2. By the 12 Geo. c. 4. and 33 Geo. II. 
c. 7. no malt entered and made for exportation fliall 
be liable to the duties, and no drawback fliall be al¬ 
lowed for any malt exported. By 1 Geo. Ill, c. 3. and 
44 Geo. III. c. 16. there fhall be allowed, for every 
twenty quarters of grain made into malt for exporta- 
tation, thirty quarters of malt, and no more, on exporta¬ 
tion 5 and notice fliall be given of fteeping and the quan¬ 
tity, on pain of 50I. and this fhall be kept leparate from 
that defigned for honie-confumption, on pain of 5s. a- 
bufhel, (12 Geo. c. 4.) and the corn of one fteeping fhall 
be kept leparate from any other, until it hath been mea- 
fured, on pain of sol. 3 Geo. II. c. 7. Perlons oppofing 
officers fhall forfeit 50I. izGeo. c. 4. Notice of meafurin°- 
fliall be given 5 and the malt carried on fhip-board, or 
kept feparate and locked up, on pain of 50I. 12 Geo. c. 4. 
3 Geo. II. c. 7. 50 Geo. III. c. 1. Opening luch locks, and 
carrying away the malt, without confent of the officer, or 
notice given to him, incur a forfeiture of iool. 3 Geo. II. 
c. 7. 50 Geo. III. c. 1. The officer, having received forty 
hours notice, fhall attend, keep an account of the malt 
delivered out, and of the perfon to whom it belongs, and 
give a certificate to the officer of the divifion to which it 
is to be removed, who fliall file the fame and make entry 
thereof 5 and, if the proprietor neglect to deliver Inch cer¬ 
tificate, he (hall forfeit 50I. 12 Geo. c. 4. Thofe intending 
to 111 ip malt for exportation fhall give forty-eight hours 
notice to the officer of the port in writing, with the name 
of the fiiip, on pain of 5s. a-bufliel. The fliip fhall be- 
locked, and perfons breaking open the hatches forfeit 50I. 
The landing of malt after (hipping for exportation, lub- 
jedts, befides the penalty of the bond for its exportation, 
to a forfeiture of the fame, and treble the value. 1 Geo. III. 
c. 3. 50 Geo. III. c. 1. Storehoufes fhall be cleared out int- 
fifteen months, on pain of 50I. Untnalted oats or barley 
mixed among malt for exportation incurs a forfeiture o£ 
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