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Persons disabled by conviction from keeping a common inn, &c. disabled from having excise licence to retail beer.
Onprosecution, certificate from clerk of the peace of conviction shall be evidence.
Penalty on clerk of the peace neglecting to give certificate.
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22. All and every person or persons who shall be disabled by any conviction from holding or having a licence to keep, or from keeping a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house, shall also by such conviction be disabled from taking out and from having any excise licence to sell, and from selling beer, cyder, or perry by retail in any manner whatsoever, under any excise licence or licences obtained for such purpose; and if any such person shall, after such conviction as aforesaid, take out or have any excise licence or licences for any such purpose as aforesaid, the same shall and is hereby declared to be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes; and every person who shall, after such conviction as aforesaid, sell any beer, cyder, or perry by retail in any manner whatsoever, shall incur the penalty for so doing without licence; and in all such cases, in the prosecution for the recovery of such penalty, a certificate from the clerk of the peace, or person acting as such, of any such conviction as aforesaid shall on the trial in such prosecution be legal evidence thereof, which certificate such clerk of the peace, or other person acting as such, is hereby authorized and required, within one week after any such conviction shall have been returned to his office, to deliver to the collector of excise, or other person or persons authorized to grant excise licences within the district or place in which such conviction shall have taken place, setting forth a copy of such conviction signed by himself, for which he shall demand or receive no fee or reward whatsoever; and if any such clerk of the peace, or other person acting as such as aforesaid, shall neglect or omit to deliver such certificate as aforesaid, he shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of ten pounds.
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