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What shall be sufficient proof of such entry.
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19. Where, upon the trial of any indictment, information, action, suit, or prosecution, or upon any other legal or judicial proceeding whatsoever, any such original entry shall be tendered or offered in evidence, it shall be lawful to prove by any credible witness the signature or signatures to such entry to be the handwriting of the person or persons by whom or in whose name or names such entry was made; and in any such case it shall not be necessary to prove such entry by the testimony of the officer who received, or of the person who may have attested, such signature or signatures, or the receipt of such entry; and if upon any trial as aforesaid, or upon any other legal or judicial proceeding, any question shall be made or shall arise, whether any building or place, or any vessel or utensil, of which entry is required to be made under this Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the revenue of excise, was entered by the person or persons by whom the same shall have been used, it shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient proof of such entry, if upon the production of any credible witness of the entry book of the division or ride in which such building, place, vessel, or utensil shall have been used such building, place, vessel, or utensil shall be found or shall appear in the copy, or what shall purport to be the copy, in such book, of any entry thereof made by such person or persons as aforesaid; and if, upon the production of such book, no such building, place, vessel, or utensil shall be found, or shall so appear therein, or if found shall so appear to have been entered for another or different purpose than the purpose for which the same shall be charged or alleged to have been used by such person or persons, every such building, place, vessel, or utensil shall be deemed and taken to be and[1]
unentered to all intents and purposes whatsoever, unless by other evidence the contrary be made appear; any law, custom, or usage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that where in any indictment or information it shall be averred that any person or persons was or were a trader or traders under any law or laws of excise, it shall not be necessary to prove the same by the production or proof of any entry made by or in the name of such person or persons.
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