# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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742

ANNO REGNI VICESIMO QUARTO Seſſ. 2,

Offence by virtue of this preſent Act, or of any Thing
herein contained.

[margin: Commence-
ment of this
Act.]

XLIV. And be it further enacted, That this Act ſhall
commence and take Effect, as to all ſuch Matters and
Things therein contained, in reſpect whereof no ſpecial
Commencement is hereby directed or provided, from and
immediately after the Tenth Day of October, One thou-
ſand ſeven hundred and eighty-four.

[margin: From Oct. 1,
1784, Com-
miſſioners of
Exciſe in Scot-
land may im-
power ſuch
Perſons as they
think proper,
in certain
Highland
Counties, to
erect and
work Stills.]

XLV. And whereas it has been found by Experience,
that the Laws and Regulations eſtabliſhed by the ſeveral
Statutes, made in Behalf of the Diſtillery of Corn Spi-
rits, have not produced the intended Effect, either to the
Publick Revenue, or to the People, in ſundry Counties
or Diſtricts of the Highlands, in that Part of Great
Britain called Scotland; and that upon Account of the
inferior Quality of the Grain produced in the Places and
Limits after deſcribed, the mountainous Surface thereof,
and the Nature of the Fuel: And whereas the ſeveral
foregoing Regulations and Proviſoes, by the preſent Sta-
tute enacted, would be equally defective in their Appli-
cation to, or Execution in, the ſaid Diſtricts, as the Laws
already ſubſiſting have hitherto proved; be it therefore
enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That, from and after
the Firſt Day of October, One thouſand ſeven hundred
and eighty-four, it ſhall be lawful to the Commiſſioners,
or the major Part of them, by Commiſſion under their
Hands, of his Majeſty's Exciſe, in the ſaid Part of
Great Britain called Scotland, notwithſtanding the ſeveral
former Acts and Statutes which do at preſent ſubſiſt in
behalf of, or in relation to, the diſtilling or manufac-
turing Spirits from Corn, and alſo notwithſtanding
the Proviſoes and Regulations herein-before enacted, to
authorize and empower ſuch Number of Perſons as they
ſhall judge proper and expedient, within the Highland
Pariſhes and Diſtricts of the ſeveral Counties of Orkney,
Caithneſs, Sutherland, Roſs, Inverneſs, Argyle, Bute, Ster-
ling, Lanark, Perth, Dunbarton, Aberdeen, Forfar, Kin-
cardine, Bamff, Nairn, and Murray, to erect, keep, and
work Stills, the Cubit Contents of which, when the
Heads are on, may contain Twenty Gallons of Engliſh
Meaſure,

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