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Licence to chemists, &c. to specify certain particulars.
Limit as to the capacity of stills to be used by chemists, &c. unless under special authority.
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10. Every licence granted to any person who shall carry on the business of a chemist, or any other business requiring the use of a still or stills, (other than that of a distiller, rectifier, or compounder of spirits, or vinegar maker,) shall specify the name or names and business of the person or persons thereby licensed, and the place where such business is intended to be carried on, and the number of stills so licensed, if more than one, and the capacity or content of every such still respectively; and no chemist or other person, other than as aforesaid, shall use or have in his possession any still or stills of any greater capacity or content than fifty gallons, upon pain of forfeiting fifty pounds, subject to the mitigation hereafter mentioned, for every such still: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the commissioners of excise, if they shall see fit, on application made to them, to authorize and empower any such chemist or other person or persons to keep and use any still of a greater capacity than fifty gallons; and that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent the use of any still of any greater capacity than fifty gallons erected and in use at the time of the passing of this Act.
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