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Treasury may order Spirits, Tobacco, and Snuff, to he delivered to Victualling Office, &c. or to be destroyed, and to settle the Rewards to he given to Officers of Customs, Excise, Navy, or Army.
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XV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury of Great Britain or Ireland respectively, or any Three of them, and they are hereby authorized to direct any Spirits that shall be seized and condemned as forfeited under any Law or Laws relating to the Revenue of Customs or Excise, to be again distilled, if the same shall be deemed proper and necessary, for the Purpose of bringing the same to a proper Strength, and also to direct such Spirits either before or after any such Distillation, as they shall see fit, and also any Tobacco or Snuff that shall be so seized and condemned as aforesaid, to be delivered to the Care of the Commissioners for victualling His Majesty’s Navy, or if in Ireland, to any Agent employed by them for the supplying of His Majesty’s Navy, or to cause any such Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff, to be destroyed, as shall under all the Circumstances appear to them most conducive to the Protection of the Revenue; and it shall be lawful for the said Lords Commissioners respectively, from Time to Time to give such Directions for the Removal of any such Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff, and to make such Regulations for the ascertaining the Value of such Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff, or to fix any average Value thereof, for the Purpose of ascertaining the Rewards to which the Informers or Persons seizing the same respectively, would have been entitled if the same had been fold and distributed under any Act or Acts, or Regulation, now in force, in relation to the Distribution of any Share of the Produce of any Seizure, to or among any Officer of Customs or Excise respectively, and from Time to Time to direct the Amount (not being in any Case a less Amount, as far as the Mode of ascertaining the Value of any such Seizure will allow, than such Officer would have been otherwise entitled to), and the Time and Manner of paying the same; and also to regulate the Amount and Mode of Distribution of Rewards to any Commissioned, Non-commissioned Officer, or Private Men of His Majesty’s Forces, or any Commissioned Officer, Petty or Warrant Officer or Seamen of His Majesty’s Navy or Marines, as shall appear to be reasonable, and the Time and Mode of paying the same.
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