1760: 33 George 2 c.4: An act to continue, for a further time, the prohibition of the making of low wines and spirits from wheat, barley, malt, or any other sort of grain, or from meal, flour, or bran.
WHEREAS the prohibition of the making of low wines and spirits from wheat, barley, malt, or any other sort of grain, or from meal, flour, or bran, is near expiring, and it is expedient the same should be continued; be it enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That an act made in the thirtieth year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, An act to prohibit, for a limited time, the making of low wines and spirits from wheat, barley, malt, or any other sort of grain, or from any meal or flour, which by several subsequent acts was continued until the twenty fourth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine; and also so much of an act made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act to continue, for a further time, the prohibition of the exportation of corn, malt, meal, flour, bread, biscuit, and starch; and also to continue, for a further time, the prohibition of the making of low wines and spirits from wheat, barley, malt, or any other sort of grain, or from meal or flour; and to prohibit, for a limited time, the making of low wines and spirits from bran, as prohibits the making of low wines and spirits from bran; which was to continue until the twenty fourth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine, shall be, and the same are hereby continued from the expiration thereof, until the twenty fourth day of December one thousand seven hundred and sixty; unless such continuation of the said acts, or of any parts thereof, shall be abridged or shortened by any other act to be made in this present session of parliament.