vent Act not to preofficers from gaging metal before it is put into pots, or taking samples. Officers power to survey.. Overcharges. Officers may acting in their aid, from entering any such suspected place, or in seizing or carrying away the bottles and vessels concealed, or in ; the due execution of any such warrant, the persons so offending, shall forfeit 2007. 35 Geo.3.c. 114.s.24. 39 and 40 Geo. 3. c. 45. Nothing in this act for charging the duty on the materials used in the making common bottles, or vessels of common bottle metal, according to the weight of such vessels, shall make it unlawful for any officer to inspect, examine, gage, or otherwise, take account of the materials, as well before such materials shall be put into any pot, as after, or to take a sample not exceeding four ounces in the whole, out of each pot, or other vessel containing such preparation. 35 Geo. 3, c. 114. s. 26. 39 and 40 Geo. 3. c. 45. The officers shall at all times, by day or by night, be permitted upon request to enter into workhouses or other places for making glass, and to weigh or take an account of the quantity of materials, before put into the pot, and to examine, gage, or take an account of the quantity after the same are, put into such pot, and shall thereof make report in writing to the commissioners, leaving a copy (under the penalty of 40s. if demanded) under their hands with such maker, which shall be a charge upon such maker. 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 9. But the commissioners of excise or appeals, or justices of peace, upon complaint by any party, of any overcharge re turned upon him by the gagers, shall hear and determine such complaint, and examine witnesses upon oath, and by due proof discharge the party of so much as shall be made out before them. 1 Will. & Mar. sess. 1. c. 24. s. 13. And the gagers may take a sample, not exceeding four ounces take samples. in the whole, out of each pot, paying (if demanded) one halfpenny for each ounce; and if any person obstruct the officers in taking such samples, he shall forfeit 501. 17 Geo. 3 c. 39. s. 39. And the officers And it shall be lawful for the officers of excise, at all times by day or by night, upon request, to euter into the workhouses, of excise may at all times nter furnaces, pot chambers, annealing arches, warehouses, rooms, workhouses. and other places, entered or made use of by any maker; and to take account of the materials there mixed and prepared, as well before such materials shall be put into the pot, as after; and of all glass there made or making; and also to take an account of the content of each pot; and to mark and number every such pot; and if any person shall counterfeit or alter any such mark, or connive at such mark being so counterscited or altered, the person so offending shall forfeit 5007.; and if any person shall wilfully deface or obliterate any such mark, or conuive at such mark being so defaced or obliterated, he shall forfeit 2007. 35 Geo. 3 c. 114. s. 2. 39 and 40 Geo. 3. c. 45. And if any maker shall, after gage taken by the officer, without a fresh notice in writing, put into the pot any metal, he shall forfeit 50l. 17 Geo. 3. c. 12, 13. 17 Geo. 3. c. 39, s. 39. 34 Geo. 3. c. 27. 8. And to deter workmen, servants, and others employed in glass manufactories, from putting materials into the pots after the guage has been taken by the officer, it is ENACTED by 31 Geo. 3. c. 27. that, if any workman or servant of, or any other person employed by any maker of glass, shall (after a notice in writing has been given by such maker to the officer, of the filling or charging any pot, and after a gage taken by the officer) put into such pot any metal, material, or preparation whatsoever, without a fresh notice in writing, every such workman, servant, or person aforesaid shall forfeit 40s.; and three commissioners of excise, within the limits of the chief office, and two justices of the peace in other parts, residing near to the place where the offence shall be committed, on confession of the party, or on proof on oath by one witness, may convict every such offender; and such offender shall, immediately on conviction, pay the penalty into the bands of the excise officer; and on his refusing or neglecting so to do, the commissioners or justices so convicting, as aforesaid, shall by warrant commit him to the common gaol, or house of correction, for 14 days from the day of commitment,and not to be discharged until payment be made of the 40s. or until the expiration of the said 14 days. s. 12. Where any materials shall be lost, or become unfit for Allowance for making glass, by the cracking or breaking of the pots, upon glass spoiled, proof, to the satisfaction of the commissioners of excise, such allowance shall be made to the makers as shall be judged reasonable. 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 11. And as a compensation for waste, in all pots containing more and for waste, than one hundred weight, used for preparing of materials for making of flint, enamel, stained glass, and of all phial glass, an allowance shall be made to the makers of one fourth part of the materials therein, and of one inch deep at the bottom of the pot; and in small pots called pile ends, which will not contain one hundred weight, an allowance shall be made of one fifth only of the materials; and in pots used for making crown glass, and all window glass, whether flashed or spread, or otherwise manufactured, an allowance shall be made of one fourth of the materials and of four inches deep at the bottom. 17 Geo. 3. c. 39. s. 31. 31 Geo. 3. c. 27. s. 7. And by 34 Geo. 3. c. 27, In all pots containing more than 1:0 weight, used for the making of brown plate, or cast plate glass, the following allowances shall be made to the makers, . one third part of the metal, or other materials, and of four inches at the bottom of the pot for brown plate glass, and one half of the metal or other materials, and of four inches at the bottom of the pot for cast plate glass, which allowances are declared to be in full compensation for all waste, damage, Reworking bottoms, Makers of flint glass may, on notice, glaze pots with materials that have paid duty. And also cleanse those that have or loss, whatsoever, except the allowance made by 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 11. where pots shall crack or break. And if any maker shall be desirous of manufacturing any of the bottoms, for which the allowance shall have been made of three inches or of four inches, and shall, six hours before he begins, give notice in writing to the officers, specifying the particular manufacture he intends to make therefrom, and from which pot, and the time of beginning to work, he may mann. facture the said bottoms; and the metal shall be chargeable with the duty; and an allowance shall be made of one inch, and no more, at the bottom of such pot; and if he shall manu. facture any part thereof, without such notice, he shall forfeit 50l. s. 31. And the maker of flint glass, on giving to the officer six hours previous notice in writing, may glaze any new pot previously gaged, and taken an account of, by the officer and specified in the notice, and for that purpose may take out of any other pot any quantity of metal on which the duty has been charged, not exceeding 40lb. in the whole, and put the same immediately, in the presence of the officer, into such new pot for the purpose of glazing the same, without being liable to further duty in respect thereof, or incurring any penalty for beginning to fill such new pot without notice. 32 Geo. 3. c. 40. s. 7. Aud on like notice he may cleanse any pot in which stained glass hath been melud and specified in the notice, by taking melted stained not more than 10lb. of unstained metal on which the duty has glass. been charged, and by lading and unlading the same in the presence of the officer, into and from such pot, and repeating such operations, until such pot shall be sufficiently cleansed, without incurring the penalty for charging without notice. S. 8. And every maker shall keep just scales and weights at the place where he makes glass, and assist the officer to make use thereof, under the penalty of 50%. 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 10. And if he shall make use of insufficient scales or weights, he shall forfeit 1001. * and also the scales and weights, which may be seized by any officer of excise. 10 Geo. 3. c. 44. s. 1. 28 Geo. 3. c. 37. s. 15. And if he before or after, or in the weighing of the stock, put any other substance into the stock weighed, whereby the officer may be hindered from taking a just account of such stock, or shall forcibly obstruct, or by any contrivance prevent or impede such officer, he shall forfeit 100l. 26 Geo..3. c. 77. s. 8. If any maker of glass, or other person shall obstruct any of the officers in ascertaining and securing the duties, he shall forfeit 501. 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 12. 17 Geo. 3. c. 59. s. * But he is not to be prosecuted both for this and the former penakies. And it is now further enacted by 35 Geo. 3. c. 114, that if any person shall obstruct any officer in the execution of any of the powers to him granted by any act relating to glass, the person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit 2001. 8.25. And all persons who make glass in London, or within the Entry and pay bills of mortality, shall monthly, and in other parts once in ment of duties every six weeks, make entry in writing at the next office of excise, of the quantities of materials used in each making, within such month or six weeks, on pain of 201. which entries shall be made upon oath by the makers, their clerk, workman, or servant (if within the bills) at the general office, and in other parts by the collectors or supervisors. 19 Geo. 2. c. 12. s. 13. But no maker shall be obliged to go further than the market. town where his glass is made, or the next market-town, for the making of such entries. s. 14. And the maker within the bills, shall within four weeks, and in other parts, within six weeks after such entry, pay the duties, on pain of forfeiting double the sum neglected. s. 15. penalties. The penalties and forfeitures may be recovered or mitigated Recovery of by law of excise, or in the courts at Westminster, half to the king, and half to him that shall suc. 19 Geo. 2. 39 c. 12. s. 39. 17 Geo. 3. c. 39. s. 41. 27 Geo. 3. c. 28. s. 13. 32 Geo. 3. c. 40. s. 9. 35 Geo. 3. c. 114. s. 27. and 40 Geo. 3. c. 45. But no maker of glass, or who shall be any way interested in the business of making glass, or in any glass-house, shall act as a justice in any matter relating to the duty on glass, but every act by him done shall be void. 17 Geo. 3. c. 39. s. 37. 8. Hides and Skins. Upon all licences to be taken out by the persons following, Licence duties. there shall be paid the several annual sums hereinafter men tioned. 43 Geo. 3. c. 69, Sched. A. Every tanner within the weekly bills of mortality, for every such licence Every maker of vellum or parchment L.5 0 0 210 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 Which licence is to be renewed annually ten days at the least before the end of the year, upon pain of forfeiting as follows: Every "tanner" 301. every tawer 10l. every dresser of hilles in oil 201, every currier 20l. and every vellum Duty on tanned goods. Duty on tawed goods. maker 10l. But persons in partnership need only take out one licence for one house. 24 Geo. 3. sess. 2. c. 41. s. 7, 8. And collar makers, glovers, bridle cutters, and others who dress skins or hides, or pieces thereof in oil, alum, and salt, or other ingredients, and who cut and make the same into wares, shall be deemed tawers or dressers. 9 Ann. c. 11. s. 28. There shall be paid for every pound weight avoirdupois of hides, of what kind soever, and of calves skins, kips, hogs skins. dogs skins, and seal skins, tanned in Great Britain, and of sheep skins and lamb skins tanned in Great Britain for gloves and basils (43 Geo. 3. c. 69. Sched. A) L.0 0 1 For every dozen of goat skins tanned with shomack or other. wise in Great Britain, to resemble Spanish leather 0 4 0 And for every dozen of sheep skins tanned for roans, (being after the nature of Spanish leather) 02 3 For every pound weight of all other skins, and parts and picces of hides and skins, tanned in Great Britain, not before charged The said duties to be paid by the tanners. 006 And by tanned hides or skins, are meant only such as are tanned in wooze made of bark or shomack, or whereof the principal ingredients shall be bark or shomack. 9 Ann.c.11.s. 3 Small pieces called pates and tails, tanned after they are cut off from the hides, need not be marked. s. 46. There shall be paid for all hides of horses, mares, and geld. ings, which shall be dressed in alum and salt, or meal, or otherwise tawed in Great Britain, for every such hide (43 Geo. 3. c. 69, Sched. A) 016 For all hides of steers, cows, or any other hides of what kind soever (horses, mares, and geldings excepted) which shall be so dressed in alum, salt, or meal, or otherwise tawed, for every such hide 030 For every lb. avoirdupois of all calves skins, kips, and seal skins, dressed in alum and salt, or meal, or tawed 0014 For every dozen of slink calves' skins, dressed in alum, and salt or meal, or tawed with the hair on 03 0 For every dozen of slink calves' skins, dressed or tawed without hair, and every dozen of dogs' skins tawed, and for every dozen of kid-skins tawed 010 For every pound weight avoirdupois of buck and doe-skins, dressed in alum and salt, or meal, or otherwise tawed 006 For every dozen of goat-skins, and of beaver-skins, dressed in alum and salt, or meal, or tawed 0 2 For every pound weight avoirdupois of sheep-skins, and lamb-skins, dressed in alum, and salt or meal, or otherwise tawed 0014 And for every pound weight of all other skins, and parts |