51 G. 3. c. 69. respectively shall be, whenever any glass which shall have been weighed and charged by such officer shall be placed or deposited therein, for the space of six hours after the same shall have been weighed, unless the same shall have been sooner re-weighed by the surveyor or supervisor of excise, according to the directions of this act: and so soon as any flint or phial glass shall be weighed by the proper officer, the maker thereof shall, with a sufficient number of his workmen, without delay or interruption and with all due diligence, remove and convey the same, and every part thereof, out of the said weighing-room into the said re-weighing room, and shall there place the same in the said re-weighing room separate from all other glass or glass wares whatsoever; and such flint or phial glass respectively shall remain in such re-weighing room where so placed for full six hours after the same shall have been so weighed, unless the same shall have been sooner re-weighed by the rsepective surveyors or supervisors of excise, to the end that the said surveyors or superisors respectively may have an opportunity toweigh or re-weigh the same; and the said respective surveyors or supervisors are to weigh or re-weigh all such flint and phial glass respectively accordingly; and if upon the re-weighing thereof any additional weight shall be discovered or found, such additional weight shall be charged with the duties payable for such flint or phial glass; and if any such fint or phial glass so removed and conveyed into any such re-weighing room shall not be re-weighed by any surveyor or supervisor within the said six hours, then the officer, under whose survey such maker shall then be, shall lock, scal, and fasten the said weighing-room and the said door of communication between the same and the said re-weighing room, and shall unlock and open the said other door or entrance into the said reweighing room; and if any such maker shall neglect to find or construct such re-weighing room as aforesaid, or shall neglect, when any flint or phial glass shall be weighed by the proper officer, with a sufficient number of his workmen, to remove any such flint or phial glass without delay and with all due diligence from the said weighing room into the said re-weighing room, or shall neglect to place the same or any part thereof in the said re-weighing room as aforesaid, separate from all other glass whatsoever, or shall remove or suffer to be removed from such re-weighing room, any Hint or phial glass before the end of six hours next after the same shall have been so weighed by the proper officer, unless the same shall have been sooner weighed or re-weighed by the respective surveyors or supervisors, the person so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2007.: Provided that no iron grating, weighing-room, or re-weighing room, shall be deemed to be a sufficient or secure iron grating, &c. unless the same shall be approved of by the respective surveyors or supervisors of the district within which the lear to the mouth or entrance of which such iron grating shall belong, or for which the same is intended, shall be situate, or within which such weighing room or re-weighing room shall be situate.

No iron grating, weighing-room, or re-weighing room to be

deemed sufficient unless approved of by the super

visor of excise.

Supervisors to provide locks

and fastenings at

the glass maker's expence.

§ 28. Proper locks, keys, and all other necessary fastenings, for securing and sealing every such lear, and the mouth or entrance and iron grating thereof, and for securing and sealing every such weighing-room and re-weighing room, and the door or entrance thereof, shall be provided by the respective surveyors and super

visors of such district, at the expence of such maker; and if any such maker shall neglect to pay for any lock, key, or other necessary fastening, which shall be provided by any surveyor or supervisor, or if any person shall obstruct any officer, or any person by him employed in that behalf, in the fixing or placing any such fastening in such manner as such officer shall direct or think expedient, or in the locking, sealing, or securing any such lear, or the mouth or entrance or iron grating thereof, or in the locking, sealing, or securing any such weighing-room, or re-weighing room, or the door or entrance of the same, or any such fastening as aforesaid, or by any means whatsoever shall open any such lock or lear, or the mouth, entrance, or iron grating thereof, or any such weighing room or re-weighing room, or the door or entrance of the same, or shall clandestinely gain admittance or make any hole or opening into any such lear, after the same or the mouth or entrance or iron grating thereof shall have been locked, sealed, fastened, or secured as aforesaid, or into any such weighing room or re-weighing room after the same or the door or entrance of the same respectively shall have been locked, sealed, fastened, or secured as aforesaid, before the same respectively shall have been unlocked and opened by the proper officer of excise, or shall wilfully break or damage any such door, lock, seal, iron grating or fastening, every such maker or other person so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2007.

51 G. 3. c. 69. Penalty for neglect, &c. 20.1.

Locks and fastenings to be al

tered and kept in repair by the flint and phial g'ass makers.

§ 29. Where any locks, keys, or fastenings shall be provided in pursuance of this act, every maker to whom such locks, &c. shall then belong, shall at his own expence, at all times when required so to do by the respective surveyors or supervisors of the division in which such his glass-house shall be situate, immediately set about altering, repairing, and amending, and shall also within a reasonable time then next following, alter, repair, and amend the same respectively, according to such requisition; and if any such Penalty 100. maker to whom any such locks, &c. or any of them shall belong, shall neglect immediately to set about altering, &c. or to alter, &c. the same when thereunto required according to this act, he shall, for each such neglect, forfeit 1007.

§30. Every maker of flint or of phial glass shall, so often as he shall be thereunto required by the officer under whose survey he shall then be, with a sufficient number of his workmen, assist to the utmost of his power such officer, &c. in weighing and taking an account or in re-weighing all flint or phial glass of such maker, on pain of forfeiting, for every neglect, 100l.

§ 31. Every maker of flint or of phial glass shall keep all flint or phial glass respectively in his possession, and which shall not have been weighed by the officer according to this act, separate from all flint and phial glass which shall have been weighed, and from all other glass wares whatsoever, on pain of forfeiting 1001. §32. If any maker of flint or phial glass shall fraudulently remove away any flint or phial glass from any place before the proper officer shall have weighed the same, or shall neglect to produce any such glass to such officer that he may weigh the same, he shall for each such offence forfeit 500l. together with all such glass; and the same may be seized by any officer of excise.

§33. If any such maker shall for the annealing of any flint or phial glass use any private or concealed lear, annealing arch, oven,

Flint and phial

glass makers to

assist officers in weighing and reweighing. Penalty 100l.

Unweighed Aint and phial glass to be kept apart from all weighed flint glass. Penalty 100l.

Flint glass makers convey ing away flint or phial glass before weighed. Penalty 500l.

Flint and phial glass makers not

51 G. 3. c. 69. to use any but an entered lear.

Penalty 2001.

Flint or phial glass makers to

work the metal out of their flint pots by six on the Saturday evening in each week, Penalty 200l.

Maker not to incur the penalty for not working out of the allowance of an inch at the bottom of any flint pot. Makers to charge their pots with fresh materials

at six in the evening of Saturday, in presence of the officer. Penalty 2001.

But penalty not incurred if the metal be laded out from the

pot into water in the presence of officer.

No flint or phial glass maker to

manufacture

utensil, or place whatsoever, other than his known lear entered for that purpose, or shall practise any art for answering the purpose of a lear or annealing arch or oven, for the purpose of annealing any flint or phial glass, or if any such maker shall use any art other than an entered lear, to answer the purpose of a lear, for the annealing of any flint or phial glass, each such maker shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001.

§ 34. Every such maker shall, at or before six in the evening of Saturday in each week, work out into wares the whole of the metal or preparation which shall at any time during that week have been founded or melted in any pots to him belonging for the making of flint or phial glass, on pain for every neglect of 2001.: Provided always, that nothing herein-before contained shall extend to subject any such maker to the said last-mentioned penalty by reason of his not working out the allowance of one inch deep made to such maker by 17 G. 3. c. 39.

§ 35. Every such maker shall so soon as any journey shall be finished, if the same shall be finished at six in the evening of Saturday in any week, or if the same shall not be finished at such hour, then every such maker shall at such hour, in the presence of the officer under whose survey such maker shall then be, again charge each pot from out of which any glass wares shall have been worked in such journey with fresh materials or preparations (other than cullet or broken glass) not less than 50lbs. weight; and if any such maker shall not, in the presence of such officer, so soon as any journey shall be finished, if the same shall be finished before six in the evening of Saturday in any week, or if the same shall not be finished at or before such hour, then if such maker shall not at such hour, in the presence of such officer, again charge each such pot with fresh materials or preparations as aforesaid, the person so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. Provided that nothing herein-before contained shall extend to subject any such maker to the said last-mentioned or any other penalty by reason of his not charging with such fresh materials or preparations as aforesaid any such pot from out of which such maker shall, in the presence of such officer, and under a previous notice in writing given by such maker to such officer by the space of two hours, have laded out into water the whole of the metal remaining in any such pots at the time of such lading as aforesaid.

:

§ 36. No such maker shall make within the same building by him entered or used for the making of flint or phial glass, or in any building adjoining thereto, any sort of glass or glass wares whatever other than flint and phial glass, on pain for each such offence of 1001.

any other sort of glass in his flint glasshouse, &c. on penalty of 10cl. § 37. No maker of glass shall make of common bottle metal any Glass makers not bottle or bottles smaller or of less size or content than what is comto make of commonly deemed an half-pint bottle; on pain of forfeiting 501.

mon bottle metal any bottle less than a reputed half pint. Penalty 50.

Penalty on obstructing officers, 3001.

§ 38. If any person shall obstruct or hinder any officer in the execution of this or any other act relating to flint or phial glass, he shall for each such offence (other than those for which any penalty is herein-before specially imposed or provided) forfeit 3001. Provided that nothing in this act contained shall extend to make it unlawful for any officer from time to time to inspect, examine, gauge, or otherwise to take an account of, the metal and materials mixed and prepared or founded or founding for the making of glass in any

such glass-house or building as aforesaid, as well before such metal 51 G. 3. c. 69. or materials shall be put into any pot as after the same shall be put into any pot, or to take a sample not exceeding eight ounces in the whole out of each such pot or any other vessel containing such preparation for making glass.

§ 41. In addition to the penalty imposed by 17 G. 3. c. 39. § 37. Forfeiture of of 100%. as in that sect. mentioned, all such broken and waste glass broken glass shall be forfeited, and shall be seized by any officer of excise.

entered for exportation

on drawback.

§ 42. And be it further enacted, that all fines, penalties, and forfeitures by this act imposed, shall be sued for, recovered, levied, Penalties and or mitigated, by such ways as any fine, &c. may be sued for, &c. by forfeitures how any laws of excise, or by action, &c. &c.; one moiety of every such to be levied. fine, &c. to his majesty, the other moiety to him who shall discover

or sue for the same.

former acts to extend to this

act.

§ 43. And be it further enacted, that all the powers, authorities, Regulations and methods, rules, directions, regulations, penalties, forfeitures, pro- provisions of visoes, clauses, matters, and things, which in and by any act or acts of parliament relating to the duties on glass, or on the materials or metal, or other preparation made use of in Great Britain in the making of glass, or to the paying or allowing of any drawback on the exportation of glass, in force immediately before the said first day of August 1811, are contained, provided, settled, or established, for managing, assessing, raising, levying, collecting, recovering, adjudging, mitigating, ascertaining, enforcing, and securing the said duties, or for paying or allowing any drawback of the said duties, and for preventing, detecting, and punishing frauds relating thereto, except where the same are expressly repealed or altered by this act, shall be and remain in full force and effect, to all intents and purposes; and the said powers, authorities, methods, rules, directions, regulations, penalties, forfeitures, provisions, clauses, matters, and things, except as before excepted, shall continue and be duly observed, practised, applied, used, and put in execution, throughout the whole kingdom of Great Britain, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes (except as before excepted) as if the said powers, authorities, rules, directions, regulations, penalties, forfeitures, provisions, clauses, matters, and things, had been expressly inserted and re-enacted in this pre

sent act.

By 58 G. 3. c. 21. the 49 G. 3. and 51 G. 3. c. 69. (relating to spread window glass, crown glass, and flint and phial glass) are respectively continued to 5th July 1819, and from thence by stat. 59 G. 3. c. 104. to 5th July 1820.

59 G. 3. c. 104. Makers of flint

or phial glass to provide boxes or

vessels, and put therein all the

By 59 G. 3. c.104. § 3. every maker of flint glass and phial glass shall, at his own expence, provide and make entry of proper and sufficient boxes or vessels, for containing all the chest metal and waste glass and skimmings produced on each weekly making of flint glass and phial glass, and shall from time to time, as the same is produced on such weekly making, forthwith put and place in such boxes or chest metal and vessels all the chest metal and waste glass and skimmings of each waste glass and particular weekly making of flint glass and phial glass, and keep each weekly skimmings of and continue the same in the particular boxes or vessels, in which making; to be the same shall be so put and placed, except when taken out daily taken out to be for the purpose of being picked and sorted, in which case the picked in the presame shall be so taken out in the presence of and weighed by the sence of the of

ficer, who shall

59 G. 3. c. 104. take an account of every weekly making.

proper officer of excise, and shall be kept separate from all other glass of any other weekly making until the same is weighed, taken account of, and re-weighed as provided by law for and in respect of manufactured flint glass; and so soon as each such weekly making of glass shall be finished, shall produce the same to be weighed and taken account of by the proper officer, and re-weighed by the supervisor of excise, as provided by law for and in respect of manufactured flint glass, and shall reflux the same and every part thereof in the next, or next but one, succeeding charge of his Penalty on maker pot or pots for making flint or phial glass; and if any maker of for default, 2007. flint glass or phial glass shall neglect or omit to find or provide proper and sufficient boxes or vessels for the purpose in that behalf aforesaid, or to put or place as aforesaid in one or more of such boxes or vessels all the chest metal and waste glass skimmings of each particular weekly making of flint glass or phial glass, or to keep or continue the same and every part thereof in such box or vessel, boxes or vessels, in which the same shall be put and placed as aforesaid, as and when the same are produced in the manufacture of the glass of such weekly making, except as aforesaid, until the same shall be weighed and taken account of by the proper officer, and re-weighed by the supervisor of excise, as provided by law for and in respect of manufactured flint glass; or shall neglect or omit, when and so soon as any weekly making of flint glass or phial glass is finished, to produce the same, together with the metal laded out at the end of every such weekly making of such glass, to the proper officer, to be so weighed and taken account of, and re-weighed by the supervisor as aforesaid; or shall mix, put, or place any other chest metal, or broken or waste glass, or skimmings, or other thing, with the chest metal or waste glass and skimmings of any particular weekly making of such glass; or shall produce to the officer to be weighed and taken account of, or to the supervisor to be re-weighed as aforesaid, any other chest metal, or broken or waste glass, or other thing, except such skimmings and laded metal as aforesaid, with the chest metal or waste glass and skimmings and laded metal of that particular weekly making of glass; or shall produce to be weighed or re-weighed as aforesaid any chest metal or waste glass or skimmings or laded metal which has before been weighed and taken account of, or re-weighed as aforesaid; or shall convey away or conceal, or not re-flux such chest metal or waste glass, skimmings or laded metal, or any part thereof, at such time and in such manner as aforesaid, all such chest metal, broken or waste glass, and skimmings, laded metal, and other thing, shall be forfeited, and may be seized by any officer of excise; and every maker of glass so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of 2001.

If in weighing the vessels of flint or phial glass of any weekly making, &c. the weight produced shall not amount 10 98 parts of 100 parts of the

gross quantity of metal put into

§ 4. Whenever any officer of excise shall weigh the vessels, articles, and utensils of flint glass or phial glass of any particular weekly making, he and they shall also weigh the chest metal and waste glass and skimmings of that weekly making, and also the metal laded out at the end thereof; and if the weight of the articles, vessels, and utensils of flint glass or phial glass of any particular weekly making of flint glass or phial glass respectively, together with the weight of the chest metal and waste glass, skimmings, and laded metal aforesaid, of the same weekly making, so produced and