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Entered premises, vessels, &c. to be distinguished by letters or numbers, and fixed pipes to be painted, under penalty of 100l.
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21. Every person making entry of any building, place, vessel, or utensil, under any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the revenue of excise, shall in every such entry distinguish and describe every such building, place, vessel, or utensil by a particular letter or number, and shall, to the satisfaction of the supervisor or surveyor of the district or division, paint such respective letter or number in a large and distinct character upon some convenient and conspicuous part of the outside of the walls or doors of every such building and place, and upon some convenient and conspicuous part of the outside of every such vessel and utensil, and shall continue the same so painted, and from time to time and when occasion shall require, or when requested by the supervisor or surveyor of excise of the district or division, shall renew the same, so long as the entry thereof shall remain uncancelled, so that such letter or number so painted may be easily and distinctly observed and known by the officers of excise; and wherever any such person shall use or employ, in any entered building or place, any fixed pipe, every such person, when required by the supervisor or surveyor of excise, by a written notice, shall paint and continue painted every such pipe, throughout its whole length and over its whole exterior surface, with a distinct oil colour or oil colours, to the satisfaction of the supervisor or surveyor of excise of the district or division; and every such person, after such notice, shall also deliver, in addition to the entry required to be made by such person of any such building, place, vessel, or utensil, and as part thereof, a drawing or drawings, or description, distinctly showing or exhibiting and explaining the course, direction, construction, and use of every such pipe respectively, and of every branch thereof, and of every cock therein, together with every place, vessel, and utensil respectively, from and to or with which the same shall lead or communicate: Provided always, that all pipes or parts of pipes used for the same purpose only shall be painted of the same colour; and if any such person shall use any building, place, vessel, or utensil, by him or her entered, which shall not be so distinguished and described as aforesaid, or which shall not have such letter or number so painted and continued thereon as aforesaid, or shall use any fixed pipe in any building or place so entered which shall not be so painted, and so shown or exhibited and explained in any drawing or drawings, or description, or different from or disagreeing with any drawing or description by him or her delivered thereof, every such person using such building, place, vessel, utensil, or pipe as aforesaid shall for every such offence forfeit and lose, over and above all other penalties, the sum of one hundred pounds.
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