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| Sea-sticks | 378347 | Bounty at a medium for each barrel of sea-sticks |
£0 | 8 | 2¼ | |
| ⅓ deducted | 126115⅔ | But a barrel of sea-sticks being only reckoned two-thirds of a barrel fully packed, one-third is deducted, which brings the bounty to |
£0 | 12 | 3¼ | |
| Barrels full | 252231⅓ | |||||
| packed | ||||||
And if the herrings are exported, there is besides a premium of |
0 | 2 | 8 | |||
So that the bounty paid by government in money for each barrel is |
£0 | 14 | 11¾ | |||
But if to this, the duty of the salt usually taken credit for as expended in curing each barrel, which at a medium is of foreign, one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel, at 10s. a bushel, be added, viz.: |
0 | 12 | 6 | |||
The bounty on each barrel would amount to |
£1 | 7 | 5¾ | |||
| If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand thus, viz.: | ||||||
Bounty as before |
£0 | 14 | 11¾ | |||
—but if to this bounty the duty on two bushels of Scots salt at 1s. 6d. per bushel, supposed to be the quantity at a medium used in curing each barrel is added, to wit |
0 | 3 | 0 | |||
The bounty on each barrel will amount to |
£0 | 17 | 11¾ | |||
| And, | ||||||
When buss herrings are entered for home consumption in Scotland, and pay the shilling a barrel of duty, the bounty stands thus, to wit, as before |
£0 | 12 | 3¾ | |||
From which the 1s. a barrel is to be deducted |
0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 0 | 11 | 3¾ | ||||
