Interpretation of words

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be lawful for any Justice or Justices of the Peace, and they are hereby required to amend any information, conviction, or warrant of commitment for any offence under any such Act at any time whether before or after conviction.

153. The following words and expressions employed in this Act shall have the meaning hereby assigned to them unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction:

The word 'worts' shall be construed to mean all materials intended to be used in the process of distillation after the same shall have been mashed and before fermentation shall have commenced therein.

The word wash' shall mean all such material so mashed after fermentation shall have commenced and before the same shall have been distilled.

The expression 'low wines' shall mean all spirits drawn and produced by one distillation of wash.

The word 'feints' shall mean spirits produced by the redistillation of low wines.

The word 'spirits' shall mean and include alcohol, brandy, rum, gin, whisky, low wines, feints and every other description of spirituous liquor.

The expression 'spent wash' shall mean the liquor which may remain in the wash still after the low wines shall have been extracted by distillation.

The wordproof' shall mean the ordinary and conventional degree of strength indicated as such by the instrument called Sykes' hydrometer.

The word 'distiller' shall mean and include any person making or keeping any wash fit for distillation or making low wines, feints or spirits and any person having in his possession or use any still or stills.

The word 'brewer' shall mean any maker of fermented malt liquor or any fermented liquor made from sugar or other saccharine matter and termed beer, ale or porter, or any maker of wine for sale, and shall include every vendor of fermented liquors or wine made in Western Australia in quantities not less than one gallon. And

The expression 'spirit merchant' shall mean any vendor of duty-paid spirituous liquors, wine or fermented malt liquors, in quantities not less than one gallon, or any person who shall expose the same for sale in any shop, warehouse or premises, except an auctioneer or a broker selling on account of a licensed wine and spirit merchant or brewer or a licensed publican.

The expression illicit spirits' shall mean any spirits produced and made contrary to the provisions of this Act or on which the full duties shall not have been paid.

No.

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The word 'premises' shall mean all the space included within
wall or paling referred to in the twenty-ninth section of this
Act.

154. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make all Governor to such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary from time to make regulations time for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect: Provided that the same shall not be repugnant to the provisions of this Act; and all such rules and regulations shall be published in the Government Gazette.'

155. This Act may be cited for all purposes as 'The Distillation Short title and Act, 1871,' and shall come into operation within one month after the passing thereof.

commencement of Act

FRED. A WELD,

I

at the

the

The word 'officer' shall mean any inspector or other person
appointed by the Governor under the provisions of this Act.

No.

do issue this license to Distillery, for the term of day of in the year day of in the year the Act of Council in such case made and provided. And I do hereby acknowledge to have received from the said the sum of £ for this license.

(Signed)

THE FIRST SCHEDULE

I

to use a still of for the term of

No. 1

LICENSE TO DISTIL SPIRITS

VOL. I.

do issue this license to
at

No. 2

FORM OF LICENSE FOR USE OF STILL FOR MANUFACTURING AND
OTHER PURPOSES THAN THE DISTILLATION OF SPIRITS IN WHICH
THE USE OF A STILL IS NECESSARY

year

acknowledge to have received from the said for this license.

Office of Collector of Revenue.
to distil spirits

commencing from

"

and ending on the

under the regulations of

(Signed)

GOVERNOR.

Collector of Revenue.

for the purpose of
commencing on the

day of
and ending on the thirty-first day of December, in the
under the regulations
and I do hereby
the sum of

9

Office of Collector of Revenue.
of

Collector of Revenue.

M M

Section 4

Section 5

Section 7

Section 11

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compound spirits at
from the

THE SECOND SCHEDULE

LICENSE TO RECTIFY AND COMPOUND SPIRITS

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Date

in the year
in the year

day of
on the
day of
regulations of the Act of Council in such case made and provided.
And I do hereby acknowledge to have received from the said
the sum of £ for this license.

(Signed)

do issue this license to
for the term of

THE FOURTH SCHEDULE

No. 1
RETURN SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF BRANDY ON HAND
QUANTITY USED IN FORTIFYING WINES AT THE

THE PROPERTY OF

Quantity on hand
on the last day of
last quarter

Total

Office of Collector of Revenue.

to rectify and

commencing

"

THE THIRD SCHEDULE

CERTIFICATE OF CHIEF INSPECTOR

I hereby certify that I have inspected the premises described in the memorial hereto appended, that such premises comply with the requirement of the Act 35 Victoria, No. 6, and that the description thereof in the memorial before-mentioned and the accompanying plan is correct.

Chief Inspector of Distilleries.

Quantity made
during the quarter
ending this day.

Collector of Revenue.

Quantity used dur-
ing the quarter
ending this day
in fortifying
gallons of wine.

AND THE

VINEYARD

I hereby certify that the above return is true in every respect.

To the Chief Inspector of Distilleries,
Perth, W.A.

Quantity lost by
natural waste

Proof Gallons

Proprietor

No. 2

RETURN SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF BRANDY ON HAND AND THE
QUANTITY ISSUED AT
LICENSED
MAKER OF BRANDY.

BY

Distillation

I certify that the above return is to the best of my knowledge true in every respect.

Licensed Maker of Brandy.

To the Chief Inspector of Distilleries.

Section 19

Section 22
Section 22

Section 22

Section 22

Seetions 34-36

TABLE OF FEES FOR LICENSES

For every license to keep and use still for distillation of spirits
For every license to keep and use still for medical, chemical assay,
photographic or scientific purposes, or for distilling perfumes,
or for the manufacture of pyroligneous acid, naphtha, or other
manufacture where a still is necessary and in which no spirits
are made

For every license to keep and use a still for distillation of brandy
from grapes for the purpose of fortifying wines
For every license to keep and use a still for the distillation of brandy
from grapes for sale or exportation

FORM OF REGISTRATION OF SPIRIT STORE OR OF A
MATERIAL STORE

Western Australia,
Distillery.
day of

Licensed

A.D.

I

Chief Inspector of Distilleries (or other officer appointed by His Excellency the Governor) do hereby register the store at this distillery for the reception of spirits when distilled [or of material to be used in the process of distillation, as the case may be], being a building bounded on the north, &c. [here give the inside measurement of the walls and their height, &c., in feet and inches]. Made and registered by me this day of in the year of Our Lord

Witness

Chief Inspector of Distilleries.

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THE SEVENTH SCHEDULE

TABLE SHOWING THE WEIGHT IN POUNDS AND DECIMAL PARTS OF A
POUND AVOIRDUPOIS CONTAINED IN ONE LIQUID GALLON OF
SPIRITS CORRESPONDING TO THE SEVERAL INDICATIONS OF SYKES'
HYDROMETER.

1.0

•2

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Transparent or White

Spirits

THE FIFTH SCHEDULE

per Gallon

THE SIXTH SCHEDULE

Spirits coloured-causing

a loss of

1 per cent. 2 per cent. 3 per cent.

Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds
per
per
per
Gallon Gallon Gallon

Indication by
Sykes' Hydrometer

£ S. d. 10 0 0

0 10 0

200

10 0 0

Trans-
parent or
White
Spirits

1.6 .8 2.0

•2

Spirits coloured-causing a loss of

1 per cent. 2 per cent. 3 per cent.

Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds
per
per
per
per
Gallon Gallon Gallon Gallon

8.185 8.167 8.149 8.132 8.188 8.170 8.153 8.135 8.192 8-174 8.156 8.139 8.196 8.178 8.160 8.142 8.199 8.181 8.163 8.146 8.203 8.185 8.167 8.149

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⚫8 8.206 8.188 8.170 8.153

8.160 8.143

8.156 8.140 8.122 8.104
8.126 8.107
8.163 8.146 8.129 8.111
8.167 8.149 8.133 8.114
8.170 8.153 8.136 8.118
8.174 8.156 8.140 8.121
8.178 8.160 8.143 8.125
8.181 8.163 8.146 8.128 3.0 8.210 8.192 8.174 8.156