or each cask or case of 100 gallons. If not permitted to be
landed, no colonial vessel within the limits to receive such
spirits, under the penalty of confiscation, together with the
vessel; half to the informer. Nor are any spirits to be sold or
bartered for more than 20s. per gallon; penalty, the
excess of 20s. to be returned, and future indulgence
forfeited; and, if licensed, the license to be taken away.
_Stallions_--not to be suffered to run loose; penalty,
5L. to informer, and 10s. for each night they are
held in charge: If not claimed within a week, forfeited to
Orphans.
_Stock furnished by Government to Individuals_.--Oxen
hired to such approved settlers as procure ploughs or carts, to
be paid for in wheat each March quarter, in the proportion of ten
bushels a year for two years, when each head is to be purchased
for 70 bushels of wheat, or be returned to government; such
cattle not to be ill-treated, or applied to any other than
agricultural purposes, on pain of being reclaimed. In case of
disease or accidental death, the superintendant of stock to be
immediately informed thereof, or the settler responsible for the
loss. Cows one remove from the Bengal breed valued at 28L.
per head, occasionally to be bartered for as follows: To be paid
for in wheat into the store, on delivery of each cow, or, if
accepted, in two half-yearly payments; in failure of payment when
due, the stock to be reclaimed, and the payment already made
forfeited. The stock and produce to the third generation
unalienable, unless by the governor's permission; and no person
to purchase any such stock without the governor's sanction.
Stock, if impounded, a description to be sent to the nearest
magistrate, or constable of the district, immediately; to be
properly fed, and, if near a town, made public thrice a week for
one month by the common crier, under the penalty of 2L.
for each head, and all other costs; but owners of stock running
at large to pay all damage sustained. Any person who has received
stock from government, and obtained permission for the sale
thereof, must first tender the same to government at market
prices, under the penalty of forfeiture, with twice the value
from seller and buyer; the original stock to the crown, the other
penalties to informer.
_Stills_--prohibited to be used; penalty, if free,
privation of indulgence and removal; if prisoners, at discretion
of a bench of magistrates: Also all liquors and utensils f
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