212) New Acts of the British Legislature. 
payment of the penalties; and the in- 
formation must be laid before the jus- 
tices, before the expiration of six [lunar] 
months. | 
Uncustomable, and prohibited goods, 
seized under the pnblic acts, are to be 
carried to the Custom-house warehouse ; 
and goods seized, as felouiously stolen, 
are to be deposited at the Thames or 
other public olffice, to be produced at 
the trial of the offender: but notice of 
such stopping is to be given to‘ the 
Custom-house ; and after trial,-the goods 
are to be carried to the Custom-house. 
Goods not carried to the Custom- 
house, as directed by this act, may be 
seized, or reseized, by officers of the 
customs; and the party neglecting, shall 
forfeit twenty pounds. i 
By 49th Geo. III.. c. 66, the only 
holidays that shall im future be observed 
at the Excise Office, shall be Christmas- 
day, Good-Friday, days of general fast 
and thanksgiving; the restoration .of 
Car. II. the coronation of his Majesty, 
and the birth days of their Majesties, 
and the Prince of Wales; and the chief 
office shali be kept open from eight 
until three. 
By 49th Geo. ITT. c. 67, the commis- 
sioners appointed under the great seal 
within eighteen months, from June 3, 
1809, may direct the exoneration of the 
land-tax, charged ou messuages belong- 
ing to small livings, and charitable in- 
stitutions. 
By 49th Geo. HI. c. 68, if a single 
woman declares herself to be with child 
of a bastard, and on oath before a 
justice charge any person with getting it, 
he may grant his warrant to apprehend 
the person charged, and for bringing 
him before any justice, &c. who may 
commit him to goal, or the house of 
correction, unless he give security to in- 
demnify the parish, or enter into recog- 
nizance with sureties, to appear at the 
Next quarter-sessions, and perform such 
order as shall be made, pursuant to the 
statute 18 Eliz.c. $, But unless two 
justices shall have certified in writing to 
the next, or when a woman shall not 
have been delivered, then to the imme- 
-diately next sessions, that an order of 
filiation hath been already made on the 
person charged; or that such order was 
not then requisite to be made, on ac- 
count of the death of the child, or for 
other sufficient reason, in each of such 
first cases, the sessions may respite the 
- Fecognizance to the next sessions; aud in 
[Sept. ls 
either of the two last cases, wholly dis- 
charge the recognizance. 
But now, by 49th Geo, IIT. c. 68. 
if the reputed father or mother, on 
whom any order of filation or main- 
tenance shall have been made, shall 
neglect, or refuse to pay, any justice, on 
complaint thereof by the woman, and 
proof thereof, fay issue bis warrant to 
apprehend the party; and unless some — 
reasonable cause for tke neglect be 
shewn, he may commit them to the 
house of correction, or common goal, to 
he kept to hard labour for three [lunar } 
months, unless the money shall be sooner 
paid. § 3. ; 
' The reputed fathers of bastard chil- 
dren shall be chargeable with the ex- 
pences incident to the birth, with the 
costs of apprehending, and of the order 
of filiation not exceeding ten pounds, to 
be ascertained by the justices, or court 
of quarter sessions, who shall make the 
order of filiation. § 1, 4. 
But persons aggrieved, may appeal 
to the quarter-sessions, on giving ten 
days notice to the justices, or one of 
them; and also to the church-wardens 
and overseers, aud entering into a re- 
cognizance within three days after such | 
notice, with sufficient surety to try the 
appeal, abide by the order of sessions, 
aud pay the costs awarded. § 5. 
‘And no appeal shall in future be al- 
lowed in any bastardy éase, without like 
notice, and entering into a like recog- 
nizance. §7. . - ; 
By 49th Geo. ILL. c. 80, dealers in 
coffee, may roast their own coffee, on 
making entry at thenext office of excise, 
and the penalty for not making entry 1s 
fifty pounds; but dealers regeiving into 
their custody unroasted coffee, in less 
quantity than fifty pounds, shall not be 
permitted to roast coffee, on pain of fifty 
pounds. . 
Officers of excise may enter the pre- 
mises of dealers, and may take samples 
of coffee, paying the usual price thereof ; 
and the penalty for refusing samples, or 
obstructing the officers, is one hundred 
pounds, . . 
By 49th Geo, IIL. c. 81, persons coun- 
terfeiting marks on paper, or having 
paper in their possession knowingly, 
with such counterfeited marks, shall be 
adjudged felons, and transported for 
seven years. 
Utensils, in cases where vessels used 
in excise manufactories are subject to 
forfeiture, may be seized. = 8 ~~ s 
By 
