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As to mode of distilling.
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38. (1.) Four hours before any wash is removed from a fermenting back, the distiller must give the officer in charge of the distillery written notice specifying the number of the back, and the day and hour of the intended removal.
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(2.) At the time so specified the officer shall attend, and after he has locked the discharge cock of the wash charger, and removed the fastenings which prevent the passage of the wash from the back to the charger, but not before, the whole of the wash, or, if the charger is not capable of containing the whole, then one half at least, must be removed from the back to the charger.
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(3.) When the wash has been so removed and the fastenings have been secured, the officer may take an account of the quantity and the gravity of the wash.
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(4.) After account has been so taken of the contents of a wash charger, no wash may be removed from a back into the same charger before the whole of the contents of that charger have been removed into the still or intermediate charger.
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(5.) The produce of all or any of the backs filled in the same brewing period may be collected in the receivers for such produce.
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(6.) Subject to the provisions of this section as to feints remaining from a previous distillation, all produce so collected must, throughout the whole course of its distillation, and until the removal to the spirit store of the spirits produced therefrom, be kept unmixed with any other matter, and separate from all other produce.
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(7.) Any feints produced by and remaining from a previous distillation may be mixed with the low wines or feints produced by a subsequent distillation, and the process of re-distilling feints may be repeated as often as the distiller thinks fit.
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(8.) Not less than four hours before the removal of any low wines, feints, or spirits from a receiver, the distiller must give the officer in charge of the distillery written notice specifying the day and hour of the intended removal.
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(9.) At the time so specified the officer shall attend, and after he has taken an account of the contents of the receiver, and removed the fastenings of its pump or discharge cock, but not before the whole contents of the receiver must be forthwith removed therefrom, and conveyed, if low wines or feints, into the proper charger, but if spirits, into a vat or cask in the spirit store.
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(10.) After the fastenings have been so removed, no other low wines, feints, or spirits may be conveyed into the receiver until the whole of its contents have been removed therefrom and the fastenings again secured.
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(11.) If a distiller contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this section he shall, for each offence, incur a fine of two hundred pounds.
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(12.) Where a distiller has secured his low wines and feints pumps to the satisfaction of the Commissioners he may run low wines and feints together into the same receiver, and may at any time without notice remove low wines and feints from a receiver to a charger and re-distil them.
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(13.) Where a still is connected with two spirit receivers the distiller may collect in each receiver alternately the spirits produced from any distillation or re-distillation, and when he has run into either receiver as much spirits as he thinks fit, he shall give notice to the officer, who shall thereupon lock the charging cock. No spirits may be removed from any such receiver until the expiration of two hours from such notice, nor except after the notice of removal required by this section.
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