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Persons other than licensed distillers, brewers, or vinegar makers, brewing or keeping worts, wash, or low wines, or keeping stills, &c., to forfeit 100l. and all the worts, &c.
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16. Every person, other than a licensed distiller, brewer, or maker of vinegar, who shall brew or make, or shall have in his possession, any worts, wash, or pot ale, (except for the purpose of being made into beer for the private use of such person, the proof whereof shall lie on such person,) and every person, other than a licensed distiller, who shall distil or have in his possession any low wines, or singlings, and every person, not being duly licensed to keep or use a still, who shall have or keep any still, still head, or worm of a still, and every person who shall without being lawfully authorized thereto have in his possession, or in any dwelling house, or in any outbuilding, place, or premises occupied by him, any worts, wash, or pot ale, (except as aforesaid,) or any low wines or singlings, or any still, still head, or worm of a still, whether such wort, wash, or pot ale, or low wines or singlings, or still head or worm, shall or shall not be the property of such person, shall forfeit one hundred pounds, subject to the mitigation hereafter mentioned; and all such worts, wash, or pot ale, low wines, and singlings, stills, still heads, and worms, shall be forfeited, and may be seized by any officer of excise.
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