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Appendix Two
AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE MANUFACTURE AND
CONSUMPTION OF STRONG BEER, ALE AND OTHER
MALT LIQUORS *
Whereas the manufacture of strong beer, ale and other malt liquors, will
promote the purposes of husbandry and commerce, by encouraging the
growth of such materials as are peculiarly congenial to our soil and climate,
and by procuring a valuable article of exportation: And whereas the whole-
some qualities of malt liquors greatly recommend them to general use, as
an important means of preserving the health of the citizens of this Com-
monwealth, and of preventing the pernicious effects of spirituous liquors:
Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all brew-
houses, wherein shall be made and produced for sale annually, a quantity of
strong beer or ale, not less than one hundred barrels of thirty-one and an
half gallons each, beer measure, with the utensils employed in such brew-
houses and the immediate dependencies thereof; also all monies and stock
of every kind employed and improved in such brewhouses, with the strong
beer, ale and other malt liquors which shall be there made and produced for
sale as aforesaid, with the faculty or annual profit of such manufacture,
shall be, and they hereby are exempted from all taxes and duties of every
kind, for the term of five years next after the passing of this act.
And be it further enacted, That all brewers or others, who shall be own-
ers or occupiers of such brewhouses, shall, as soon as may be after the passing
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* The Perpetual Laws of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts -- from the
Establishment of its Constitution to the Second Session of the General Court, in
1798. 2 vols., Worcester, 1799.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States. Contributors: Stanley Baron - author. Publisher: Little Brown. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1962. Page Number: 351.
    
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