Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Act, 1831

Regulations as to still makers.

Stills of less content than 200 gallons to be gauged and stamped.

11. Every person who shall make any still shall permit any officer of excise, at any hours in the day-time, to enter any place made use of by such person for making or keeping stills, and to examine the same; and every such maker of stills shall stamp his name, and the content or capacity of every still made by him, upon the shoulder of every such still; and every maker of stills shall, within three days after finishing any still of less content than two hundred gallons, give notice to the proper supervisor or officer of the district or division where such still hath been so made, that the same is ready to be gauged and stamped; and such supervisor or officer shall, within three days after such notification, gauge such still, and stamp the same, and grant a certificate specifying the content and maker’s name of such still; and every maker of a still who shall in any respect offend in or neglect any of the particulars aforesaid shall for every such offence forfeit sixty pounds, subject to the mitigation hereafter mentioned.