And where the transaction relates to the transfer of a public-house, the successor must obtain, at the next special meeting of Justices for the district or place, their certificate of approval, which he must produce at the office of Excise, with the license.

9. Entries, and Excise Regulations. Before any licensed person can safely and legally open his house for the sale of exciseable liquors, he must have printed or fixed, in letters publicly visible and legible, at least one inch long, upon his entered premises, his name at full length, or the name or style of the firm, where there are partners, and after it the word "Licensed," adding thereto the words necessary to express his licensed trade or business (if a dealer in foreign spirits, "Dealer in Foreign Spirituous Liquors;" if an importer, Importer of Foreign Spirituous Liquors;" if a retailer of wine, the word "Wine;" if a dealer in wine, the words "Dealer in Foreign Wine;" and if a publican deals in tobacco, he

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must take out a license for the purpose, and cause the words "Dealer in Tobacco" to be painted over his door, on pain of forfeiting 50%. Stat. 29 Geo. III. c. 68); -and such letters shall be fixed in some conspicuous place, on the outside of the front of the premises, over the principal outward door, or gate, or entrance-door thereto, and not more than three feet from the top thereof, on pain of forfeiting, for every offence, 201.-Stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 35.

And any person having such letter or letters, implying that he carries on, or is licensed to carry on, any trade or business requiring a license, not being licensed, shall forfeit, for every offence, 201. -Stat. 6 Geo. IV. c. 81, s. 25.

Every publican, victualler, or retailer of beer or ale, who shall receive into his possession any beer or ale to dispose of by retail (and every dealer, as well as publican, who shall receive any spirituous liquors to sell by retail), shall, at least three days before beginning to dispose of the same, make a true and par

ticular entry in writing, at the next office of Excise, of every house, cellar, outhouse, vault, room, store-house, or other place, where the same shall be kept or sold, and of the true names of the parties making such entry, and stating whether he is an ale-house keeper, victualler, or retailer, under penalty, for every neglect or default, of 50%-Stat. 35 Geo. III. c. 113, s. 7. And as every unentered place in which any spirituous liquors, beer, ale, or worts, in casks, may be kept, is deemed by the Excise laws a private and concealed place, it is prudent to make entry of a room or closet too much, than not to have sufficient entries. And for the same reason, it is advisable to make 'entry of your passage, or rolling-way.

And every dealer in, or seller of table beer, who shall sell or dispose of any such beer, exceeding the quantity of one gallon at the same time, shall make entry, in writing, at the Excise-office of the district, of all cellars, out-offices, or other places, for storing, laying, keeping, or selling the same, under penalty of 50%. for

selling any table beer exceeding that quantity, without making such entry.Stat. 42 Geo. III. c. 38, s. 17.

As has been just said (page 46), fresh entries must be made of premises which have been burned down, or rendered uninhabitable, or in which an alteration has taken place in the occupancy, by death, removal, or transfer. And no dealer must erect other premises, or alter those that are already erected or fixed, without giving a notice to the Officer of Excise.

The Excise regulations particularly to be known by retailers, in order to prevent their offending against the Excise laws, and incurring penalties and forfeitures, are as follow:

By Act of Parliament, your foreign and British stock must be kept separate; for by the 126th section of the Stat. 6 Geo. IV. c. 80, every dealer in spirits, having or receiving into his custody or possession, any foreign or colonial spirits (not being compounded colonial spirits), and also any British spirits, must keep the same separate and apart, and in separate cellars,

vaults, or other places, specially entered for that purpose respectively, on pain of forfeiting 1007., or 20s. for every gallon of British spirits, or compounded spirits, which shall be discovered or found in his custody or possession, in any vault, cellar, or other place, not specially entered for that purpose, or where any foreign or colonial spirits (not being compounded colonial spirits) shall be found or kept; and for every gallon of foreign or colonial spirits (not being compounded colonial spirits) which shall be discovered or found in his custody or possession, in any vault, cellar, or place, not specially entered for that purpose, or where any British spirits, or compounded spirits, shall be found or kept, together with all such spirits so discovered and found, and the casks and packages containing the same..

The like entries are also to be made of the storehouses, cellars, &c. in which foreign wine is kept; for by the Stat. 42 Geo. III. c. 93, s. 4, every dealer and seller of foreign wine, except by wholesale, receiving into his custody any cider, spi