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Dryer to give six hours notice of his intention to remove chicory from kiln.
Officer to attend, and chicory, to be weighed and removed into warehouse in his presence.
Penalty on dryer not weighing chicory.
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11. Every dryer of chicory shall give six hours notice in writing to the officer of Excise under whose survey he shall be of the day and particular hour of the day when he shall intend to remove any such article as aforesaid off the kiln, or from or out of any utensil in or upon which the same shall have been placed to dry; and such officer shall attend according to such notice; and thereupon all such chicory shall be weighed by the said dryer, or his servant or workman, in the presence of such officer, who shall take an account thereof, and the same shall then forthwith be removed, also in the presence of the officer, into the warehouse to be provided by the said dryer in pursuance of this Act for that purpose, and shall be there deposited and locked up and secured under such regulations as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue may make in that behalf; and if any such dryer shall neglect or omit to begin to weigh such chicory for the space of one hour after the officer shall have attended in pursuance of such notice as aforesaid, the chicory shall not be removed from such kiln or utensil without a fresh notice of six hours, to be given as aforesaid; and if the dryer shall not cause the whole of such chicory to be duly weighed and removed and deposited in such warehouse as aforesaid within the space of two hours after the commencement of the weighing thereof, he shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds.
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