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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Sydney, 5th May, 1846.
Rewards for the Discovery of
Illicit Distillation.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following Rules
shall be established in rewarding persons who
either directly or indirectly may give information
to any Inspector of Distilleries or other officer of
Government, leading to the seizure of an unlicensed
Still in any part of the Colony, or information
leading to the conviction of any person
engaged either as a principal or authorised Agent
many Licensed Distillery or Rectifying Establishment
of any offence against the Laws which
exist for their regulation, or to the discovery of
any practices in or connected with such Establishment
by which the revenue is defrauded
1 -The Reward to be paid will be a sum never
exceeding fifty Pounds, to be determined by the
Governor according to the circumstances of each
case, and the value of the seizure
2 -The person on whose information the seizure
is made, is the one entitled to the Reward,
but if information be given at the same time by
two or more individuals, the persons giving it will
be jointly or collectively entitled to the Reward
3 If separate information be given to two
different Officers at or about the same time, or if
from any other cause a difficulty arise m deter a
mining the party or parties entitled to the Reward,
their several claims will either be decided
by the Governor or by the Officers of the Government
to whom they may by his Excellency
be referred
4 -Expenses necessarily incurred in making
any seizure, including remuneration to parties
assisting in making it, are to be paid out of the
Reward in such manner as may have been previously
agreed upon, or (if there has been no
agreement) in such manner or in such proportions
as the Governor may direct
5 -There being reason to believe that Stills
have occasionally been put up for the sole purpose
of obtaining the Reward promised for their discovery,
no Reward will in future be given for the
discovery of any Still which may seem to have
been erected for such a purpose only
6. In every case where a seizure may be
made, the report forwarded to the Government
respecting it is to be accompanied with an estimate
of what the whole of the property seized
may be expected to sell for, as well as an estimate
of what the formation of the Illicit Distillery may
have probably cost, and its capability of doing
mischief.
7. These respective estimates are, in all
possible cases to he made by a board of Officers,
of which the seizing Officer is not to be a
member.
8. If the person. giving information be a Prisoner
of the Crown, his Excellency will take into
his most favourable consideration the claim of such
person for the highest indulgence which can with j
propriety, be granted to him.
9. the Rewards and indulgence held out by this
Notice will moreover be in addition to the
share in any penalty or seizure to which the
informer may be entitled by the Law of the
C colony.
10. The Regulations respecting Rewards for
the Discovery of Illicit Distillation, as contained
in the Notices from this Office dated respectively
the 8th December, 1842, and 29th April, 1844,
are cancelled from this date.
11. All seizures made by any RevenueOfiiccr
shall be immediately reported to the Chief Inspector
of Distilleries, who shall cause the proper
steps to be taken to prosecute the parties
concerned, as also to realize the amount of the
goods seized, and divide the same in accordance
with the Act.
By his Excellency's Command,
E. DEAS THOMSON.
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