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Specimen books may be left by the officers on the premises of traders for recording minutes of entries, accounts, &c. which shall not be removed or destroyed, under penalty of 200l.
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23. The supervisor or surveyor of excise in whose district or division any person or persons shall be who shall carry on any trade or business under or subject to any law or laws of excise, or the officer of excise under whose survey such person or persons shall be, may leave and deposit, in some conspicuous and open part of some building or place entered by such person or persons for such trade or business, a certain book or paper called a specimen, for recording therein minutes of the entries made by the officers respectively who survey the premises of such person or persons, or the trade or business of such person or persons, in the books of such officers, of the state of the manufactory, and of the accounts and particulars of the survey thereof at any time taken by such officers respectively, and the names and minutes of survey and observations of any other officer who may visit or inspect such entered premises; and every officer of excise shall at all times have free access to such book or paper, with liberty and power to remove or take away the same, leaving a new book or paper for the like purpose as aforesaid in lieu thereof; and if any person, not being an officer of excise, shall remove or take away, or shall conceal or withhold, any such book or paper, or shall damage or destroy the same, or alter, deface, or obliterate any entry therein, or shall make any entry therein, every such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and lose the sum of two hundred pounds.
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