§ 15. No such maker shall at one time put or keep in any lear entered or used for the annealing of flint or phial glass, any articles, vessels, or utensils of different makings, nor any sort of glass or glass wares, other than flint or phial glass wares, on pain of forfeiting for each such offence 1001. § 16. When any such maker shall intend to prepare, light, or kindle any fire to heat his lear, into which any flint or phial glass is intended to be put for the annealing the same, such maker shall give to the officer of excise under whose survey he shall then be, six hours notice in writing of such his intention, and upon such notice being given, such officer shall attend at the time mentioned in such notice, and shall unlock and open such lear, and the mouth or entrance and iron grating thereof; and if any such maker shall neglect or refuse to light or kindle such fire within one hour after such lear, and the mouth or entrance and iron grating thereof, shall be opened by such officer, then such notice shall be void, and such officer shall again, immediately after the expiration of such one hour, lock up, fasten, and seal such lear, and the mouth or entrance and iron grating thereof as aforesaid; and such maker shall give the like and a fresh notice in writing to such officer before such lear, or the mouth or entrance or iron grating thereof, shall be again opened. Officers to lock up and seal the mouth of every flint glass lear as soon as the journey is finished, if finished by Saturday evening, and if not, then to lock up and seal it at that hour, till a notice given for lighting the fire, not earlier than § 17. The officer of excise, under whose survey any glass-house for the making of flint or phial glass shall be, shall, so soon as any journey of flint or phial glass making shall be finished, if the same shall be finished at or before six of the clock in the evening of Saturday in any week, and if it shall not be finished at or before six of the clock in the evening of Saturday in any week, then at six of the clock in the evening of such Saturday, to lock, seal, fasten and secure every lear belonging to such glass-house, and the mouth or entrance and iron grating thereof, and to keep the same locked, sealed, fastened, and secured, from thenceforth until such maker shall give to such officer such notice as is hereinbefore directed of such maker's intention to prepare or kindle a fire as aforesaid to heat such lear, and in no case sooner than the hour eight on the folof eight in the evening of the Sunday next following such locking, lowing Sunday sealing, fastening, and securing of such lear; and if any person evening. shall obstruct any such officer, or any person by him employed in Penalty 2001. that behalf, in so locking, &c. such lear or the mouth, &c. thereof, as such officer shall think expedient to answer the purpose by this act in that behalf intended, or shall attempt or endeavour so to do, or shall by any art whatsoever open any such lear, or the mouth, &c. thereof, after the same shall have been locked, &c., as aforesaid, before the same shall have been unlocked and opened by the proper officer, or shall wilfully break or damage any such lock, seal, or fastening, then the person so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. ing room, which § 18. Every such maker shall, at his own expence, find and provide, Flint and phial or construct, a good, sufficient, and secure weighing-room in each glass makers to flint or phial glass-house to him belonging, which room shall be provide a weighnear to, and communicate with, the lear of such glass-house; and is to be kept save and excepting the discharging hole of the said lear, no such locked by the room shall have more than one door or entrance into the same, and officer. of 51 G. 3. c. 69. immediate communication with, the re-weighing room hereinafter required, and no discharging hole of any such lear shall open into any place other than such weighing-room; and such weighingroom and the entrance thereof shall be securely fastened and sealed by the officer under whose survey such maker shall be, at all times when there shall be any flint or phial glass therein, or in the lear communicating therewith, except when the same shall be opened by such officer for the purpose of weighing and taking an account of the articles repectively of flint or phial glass therein, and charging the duty thereon, in pursuance of such notice as is hereinafter mentioned, or for the purpose such maker or his servants arranging the positions of the pans or trays of articles hereinafter mentioned, which shall have been drawn, rolled, conveyed, or conducted through the lears communicating with the said weighing room into the said weighing toom; and when any such maker shall be desirous of having the entrance of any such weighing room unlocked or opened for the purpose last aforesaid, such maker shall give to the officer of excise under whose survey he shall then be, one hour's previous notice in writing of such his desire, and specifying in such notice the particular weighing-room which he is so desirous to have so unlocked or opened, and the particular time and hour when he desires to have the same so unlocked or opened, whereupon such officer shall attend pursuant to such notice, and shall unlock and open the said entrance, and shall so keep and continue the same for half an hour, during which time such inaker, or one of his servants, shall be at liberty to arrange the positions of the said pans or trays in the said weighing room, under the inspection of the said officer; and when the arrangement shall be finished, or at the end of the said half an hour (whichever of them shall first happen), such officer shall again secure the said entrance; and if any such maker shall neglect to find and provide or construct such weighing-room in any such glass-house to him belonging, he shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. Provided that no such maker shall give any such notice as last aforesaid for having the entrance of any weighingroom opened more than once within any 12 hours, nor shall any officer, in pursuance of any such notice, open any such entrance more than once within any 12 hours. Penalty 20cl. Flint and phial glass makers to provide anneal. ing pans or trays, with a windlass and machinery for carrying them, with the glass wares there in, through the lear, into the weighing-room. § 19. And every such maker shall also, at his own expence, construct a proper number of iron pans or trays to receive, during the annealing thereof in the lear of each flint or phial glass-house to him belonging, all the articles of flint or of phial glass which shall be made or blown in such glass-house, and shall also find and apply to such iron pans or trays good and sufficient chains, rollers, instruments, apparatus, and machinery, proper for working the said iron pans or trays, and conveying the same with such articles of flint or phial glass therein or thereon, immediately from the mouth of such lear into the said lear for the annealing the same therein, and shall also, at his own expence, find and erect in the most convenient part of every such glass-house, a fit windlass for the drawing, rolling, conveying, and conducting every such pan or tray with the said articles, from the mouth of the said lear into the said lear, and also for drawing, &c. every such pan or tray with the said articles therein or thereon through the said lear, and for drawing, &c. the said pans or trays with the said articles from out 51 G. 3. c. 69. of the said lear into the said weighing-room, when such articles shall have been sufficiently annealed in the said lear, that the officer of excise, under whose survey such maker shall be, may weigh and take an account of such articles in the said weighingroom and charge the duty; and if any such maker shall neglect so to make a proper number of iron pans or trays to contain and Penalty 2001. convey into and out of such lear for the purpose of annealing, or to find or apply to such iron pans or trays, or any of them, such sufficient chains, rollers, instruments, apparatus and machinery, fit for working the said iron pans or trays, or any of them, for any of the purposes in that behalf aforesaid, or shall neglect to find or erect any such fit windlass as is in that behalf aforesaid, every such maker so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. Flint glass makers to de posit the wares on the trays, and when filled, to convey them into the lear, and from thence in the weighing room. §20. Every such maker shall, so soon as any article of flint or phial glass shall be made or blown, deposit the same on or in one of such pans or trays which shall at that time be placed within the mouth or entrance of the lear for the purpose of receiving the articles so made or blown, and shall so continue to deposit on or in the said pan or tray so placed as aforesaid, such articles, until the bottom or surface of the said pan or tray shall be filled or covered, and shall continue all such articles respectively on or in such pan or tray, until the said articles shall be conveyed or conducted on or in such pan or tray into the lear of the said glass-house as hereinafter mentioned; and so soon as the bottom or surface of such pan or tray shall be filled or covered by such articles, such maker shall, by means of such chains, rollers, instruments, windlass, and machinery as aforesaid, convey and conduct the same, with the whole of the said articles, into the said lear, for the annealing the said articles therein; and such maker shall continue each such pan or tray with the said articles therein in such lear, until the said articles shall be sufficiently annealed; and when the same shall be so annealed, shall in like manner convey and conduct the said pan or tray with the said articles from out of such lear directly unto and into the said weighing room, and shall, without altering or disturbing the positions of such articles or any of them, on or in such pan or tray, continue the same in the said weighing-room, until the officer under whose survey such maker shall then be shall have taken an account of and weighed the said articles respectively, and charged the duty in respect thereof respectively; and if any maker shall neglect or refuse to put, lay, or Penalty 2001, deposit any article of flint or of phial glass on or in one of such pans or trays so placed as aforesaid, when and so soon as such article shall be blown or made, or shall neglect or refuse to proceed, or so to continue to deposit on or in the said pan or tray so placed as aforesaid such articles as aforesaid, until the bottom or surface of the said pan or tray shall be filled or covered, or shall neglect or refuse to continue any such articles on or in such pan or tray as aforesaid, or shall neglect or refuse so to convey or conduct any such pan or tray, with the whole of the said articles, into the said lear, for the purpose of annealing the said articles; or if any such maker shall neglect or refuse to continue any such pan or tray with the said articles in any such lear, until the said articles shall be so annealed, or shall neglect or refuse so to convey or conduct in manner in that 51 G. 3. c. 69. behalf aforesaid, any such pan or tray with such articles as in that behalf aforesaid, therein or thereon, out of such lear directly unto and into the said weighing room, or shall neglect or refuse to continue any such articles in that behalf aforesaid, without altering the positions thereof, or the position of any of them, in any such pan or tray as in that behalf aforesaid, or to continue the same in the said weighing room until the officer under whose survey such maker shall then be, shall have taken an account of and weighed the said articles, and charged the duty, every such maker shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. § 21. Every such maker shall, so soon as any journey or making of flint or phial glass shall be finished, and before the mouth, entrance, or iron grating of the lear into which the articles of that journey or making shall have been put, shall be locked, fastened, or secured by the proper officer, deliver to the proper officer a declaration in writing, specifying the true number of such iron pans or trays as aforesaid, into or on which such articles of that particular journey or making shall have been put, and which shall have been so filled with such articles, and put or deposited in each such lear; and if any such maker shall neglect to deliver such declaration in writing, such maker shall, for each such offence, forfeit 1002. § 22. Every such maker shall keep sufficient and just scales and weights at the place where he shall make any flint or phial glass, and shall at his own expence find and affix within his weighingroom and re-weighing room respectively, fit and proper hooks or staples, and also permit any officer to use the same for the purpose of weighing and taking an account of and re-weighing the flint and phial glass respectively, which shall at any time be in the possession of such maker; and if any such maker shall neglect to keep such scales and weights, or either of them, or shall not at his own expence find and affix such fit and proper hooks or staples as aforesaid, or shall not permit any officer of excise to use the same, such maker shall, for each such offence, forfeit 100.; and if any such maker shall, in the weighing or re-weighing of any flint or phial glass, make use of any false or insufficient scales or weights, or shall practise any art by which any such officer may be hindered from taking the just weight of any such flint or phial glass, in every such case such maker shall, for each such offence, forfeit 500l., with all such false or insufficient scales and weights respectively, and the same shall be seized by any officer of excise. $23. Every such maker being desirous to have any weighingroom to him belonging unlocked and opened, for the purpose of weighing and charging with the duty any flint or phial glass therein, shall give to the officer under whose survey he shall then be, six hours previous notice in writing of his desire, and specifying in such notice each particular weighing-room which he desires to have so unlocked or opened, and the particular time and hour at which he desires to have the same so unlocked or opened; and upon such notice such officer shall attend at the time mentioned in such notice, and shall unlock and open such weighing-room, and such officer shall proceed to weigh the whole of the flint and phial glass respectively (whether whole or broken) with such scales and weights as aforesaid in the said weighing-room, and shall charge such maker with the duty, according to such weight: Provided always, that no such maker shall be at liberty to give any such 51 G. 3. c. 69. notice for having any such weighing-room, or the door or entrance Notice void for thereof opened for the purposes aforesaid, at any other time than opening any weighing-room between the hours of six in the morning and six in the afternoon. at any other time § 24. If any officer of excise shall have cause to suspect that any than between flint or phial glass which shall have been fraudulently removed certain hours. away before the same shall have been weighed by the proper officer, Warrant to according to the directions of this act, shall be deposited or con- search for glass cealed in any place whatsoever, then, if such place be within the fraudulently concities of London or Westminster, or within the limits of the chief veyed away. office of excise in London, upon oath made by such officer before the commissioners of excise in England for the time being, or any two or more of them, or in case such place shall be in any other part of Great Britain, upon oath made by such officer before one or more justices for the county, riding, division, or place where such officer shall suspect the same to be deposited or concealed, setting forth the ground of his suspicion, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or any two or more of them, or the justice of the peace before whom such oath shall be made, if they or he shall judge it reasonable, by special warrant under his and their respective hands and seals, to authorize such officer by day or by night, but if in the night, then in the presence of a constable or other lawful officer of the peace, to enter into every such place where he shall so suspect such flint or phial glass to be deposited or concealed, and to seize and carry away all such flint and phial glass which he shall then and there find so deposited or concealed, as forfeited; and if any person whatsoever shall let or hinder any such officer so authorized, or any other person acting in his aid in the execution of such warrant, from entering any such place where such officer shall so suspect such flint or phial glass to be so deposited or concealed, or in seizing or carrying away the same, or in the due execution of any such warrant, the person so offending shall, for each such offence, forfeit 2001. § 25. All enamel, stained or paste glass, which shall be made in Great Britain, shall be taken to be flint glass within this act. § 26. And in every such weighing of any such fint or phial glass, the turn of the scale shall be given in favour of the crown, and in lieu thereof there shall be allowed to such maker one pound weight upon each one hundred pounds of such flint or phial glass so weighed. Penalty 2col. on persons obstructing the execution of the search war. rant. Enamel and stained or paste glass to be deem- of the crown. §27. And every such maker shall, at his own expence, find and Glass makers construct a good and secure re-weighing room, adjoining to each to provide a refint or phial glass-house, as the case may require, to him belonging, weighing room, which room shall be contiguous and next adjoining to the said for depositing the flint glass weighweighing room, and shall be separated therefrom only by a wall not ed and charged more than two feet in thickness, and the door of communication shall by the officer, for be in such wall between the said weighing room and re-weighing a certain time, room; and no such re-weighing room shall have more than two unless re-weighed in the interint doors or entrances into the same, one thereof being the said door by the superof communication between the said weighing room and re-weighing room, and the other thereof opening into or communicating with any part of the premises appertaining to the glass-house to which such re-weighing room may belong; and each such re-weighing room, and the doors or entrances thereof, shall be securely locked, fastened, and sealed by the officer under whose survey such maker visor. |