If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand thus, viz. ........£0 14 11 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 £0 17 112 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..... ..£0 12 22 ...0 1 0 £0 11 3 ...........0 12 6 So that the premium allowed for each barrel of herrings entered for home consumption is................................... .........£1 3 9 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, £0 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 1 0 £0 11 34 03 0 ..£0 14 3 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 of April 1782, with the Medium of both for one Year. It is to be observed, that the bushel of foreign salt weighs 84 lb. that of British salt, 56 lb. only. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Edinburgh, printed by John Brown. |