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Treasury may direct seized Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff, to be sold either for Home Consumption or Exportation. [See 45 G. 3.c. 121. § 15.]
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XXIX. ‘And Whereas, by an Act made in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, it was, among other Things enacted, That it should 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 thereby 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 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 the Circumstances, appear to them most conducive to the Protection of the Revenue: And Whereas it is expedient to make such further Provision as is herein-after mentioned:’ be it therefore further enacted, That so much of the said recited Provisions of the said Act, as relates to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury of Ireland, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury of Great Britain or Ireland respectively, or any Three of them, and they are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 such Spirits, Tobacco, or Snuff to be sold, either for Home Consumption or Exportation, if it shall, under all the Circumstances, appear to them most conducive to the Protection of the Revenue so to do.
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