APPENDIX. THE two following Accounts are subjoined, in order to illustrate and confirm what is said in the Fifth Chapter of the Fourth Book, concerning the Tonnage Bounty to the White-herring Fishery. The Reader, I believe, may depend upon the accuracy of both accounts. An Account of Busses fitted out in Scotland for Eleven years, with the Number of empty Barrels carried out, and the Number of Barrels of Herrings caught; also, the Bounty at a Medium on each Barrel of Sea-sticks, and on each Barrel, when fully packed. And if the herrings are exported, there is besides a premium of............. So that the bounty paid by Government in money for each barrel, is.......... 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. abushel, be added, viz.................... the bounty on each barrel would amount to ........... VOL. II. 0 12 6 .......L 7 52 kk If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand thus, viz. ..........LO 14 113 But if to this bounty the duty on two bushels of Scotch salt, at 1s. 6d. per bushel, supposed to be the quantity at a medium used in curing each barrel, is added, viz....... the bounty on each barrel will amount to......... 0 3 0 LO 17 114 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........ From which the 1s. a-barrel is to be deducted....... But to that there is to be added again, the duty of the foreign salt used in curing a barrel of herrings, viz......... So that the premium allowed for each barrel of herrings entered for home consumption is......... LO 12 3 010 LO 11 3 0 12 6 ...L1 3 94 If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand as follows, viz. Bounty on each barrel brought in by the busses as above.........LO 12 34 From which deduct the 1s. a-barrel, paid at the time they are entered for home consumption......... But if to the bounty, the duty on two bushels of Scotch salt, at 1s. 6d. per bushel, supposed to be the quantity at a medium used in curing each barrel, is added, viz.......... the premium for each barrel entered for home consumption will be......... 0 1 0 Though the loss of duties upon herrings exported cannot, perhaps, properly be considered as bounty, that upon herrings entered for home consumption certainly may. An Account of the Quantity of Foreign Salt imported into Scotland, and of Scotch Salt delivered Duty-free from the Works there, for the Fishery, from the 5th of April 1771, to the 5th April 1782, with the Medium of both for one Year. It is to be observed, that the bushel of foreign salt weighs 84lb. that of British salt, 56lb. only. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Edinburgh Printed by C. Stewart. L.H. 9169 |