SPIRITS, &c., continued: 107/29 Three Casks Brandy, ex Jean Geatin, @ Charente. Less. O.P. Cont. Ull, O.P. Bung. Wet. U.P. Ull, U.P. Ull. O.P. U.P. §§§ 100...37...34...33...1 || 21.1...17.3...13-0...30...4...3 cc 192...4.0...34...33...1 21.0...168... 194...40 34...33...1 || 21.0...11.7 ...29...4...4 British Plantation G. D. 5 October. tares allowed. 164 Proof Gallons. Sugar, Yellow Muscovado, not equal to white clayed. Gross. Tare. cwts. qrs. lbs. 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 super tare allowed, (1) 1 3 0 G. D. 5 October. 8 gross. 5 3 0 5 3 0 tare. 54 2 8 net. () The capacity of the cask being greater than its contents indicate, from a portion having been washed out during the voyage, a super tare is claimed thereon and allowed. WOOD, continued : Bundles. 50 each 100 Laths, being Sawn Wood. Length. Breadth. Height. and 90 odd. 6 0 × 60 × Cubic ft. 60 216, or 4 loads 16 ft. 3 4 Ditto under 4 in. in diameter, and above 22 ft. in length. 0 0 26 Ditto under 4 in. in diameter, and not exceeding 22 ft. in length. Firewood is usually tallied by the quarter fathom; being sawn into lengths of 18 inches, it is packed in a frame 6 ft. by 6 ft., and afterwards reduced by splitting deal ends and round wood once; and wood generally, so that it shall be inapplicable to any other useful purpose. MODES OF ASSESSMENT, &c. With Timber and Wood, 8 Inches square and upwards, and Round Wood 9 inches in Diameter and upwards-exceeding 10 feet in length -the Length should be taken to half a foot, the breadth, thickness, diameter, or quarter-girt, to the quarter of an inch, and the content cast out to an entire foot ;-not exceeding 10 feet in length-the content must be computed to half a foot. Oak Knees, 8 inches square and upwards, under 5 feet in content Balks, or Fir Quarters, 5 and under 8 inches square and exceeding 5 feet in content, should, in like manner, be measured separately, and contented to half a foot. Balks or Timber, 5 inches square or upwards exceeding 2 and not exceeding 5 feet in content, the length to be taken to one-quarter, and the content computed to one-tenth of a foot. or Fir Quarters, under 5 inches square, may be cubed in bulk, or 60 pieces piled together, the average length struck, height and width taken to their full extent in feet and inches, and the content of the entire number ascertained therefrom. Wainscot Logs.-The length to be taken to the quarter of a foot breadth and thickness to the quarter of an inch, and the content computed to half a cubic foot. Spars, 6 inches in diameter, and upwards, must be measured and returned as 66 Hewn Timber," and content charged to half a foot. · under 6 inches in diameter are taken by tale. Birch Hewn, not exceeding 3 feet in length, nor 8 inches square; Laths sawn or rent, and other Wood, not exceeding 2 feet in content. -The length, height, and width of the pile should be taken to their full extent in feet and inches, and the content cast out in loads and feet. Lathwood of various lengths and Firewood (1) are measured in a 6-feet frame, and reduced to fathoms of 216 cubic feet. (1) Firewood may be framed whole and subsequently reduced. WOOD, continued: Foreign Deals, Battens, Boards and Planks, may be taken by scale, or being assorted into similar lengths, breadths and thicknesses, are piled and thus cubed: If there be 4 Great Hundred Deals or Planks, or 6 Great Hundred of Battens or Boards in one Pile-all dimensions should be taken to the quarter of a foot and the Content computed to an entire foot. If there be less than the above quantities-length should be taken to the quarter of a foot, breadth and height to an inch computing the content as before to an entire foot. When a pile consists of several dimensions, the fractional parts in the computation of each section, must be added together, and the final fraction on the total content of the pile only rejected. Foreign Deals, &c. (1) Exceeding 21 feet 3 inches in length, and Oak Plank under 21 feet in length-at the option of the importer, may be measured singly, or averaged from the measurement of 1 in 10 of each parcel of like dimensions, the length being taken to onequarter of a foot; breadth and thickness to one-quarter of an inch, and the content cast to one-tenth part of a foot. Colonial Deals, &c., are similarly assessed, except when the importer furnishes a specification containing the numbers and dimensions of the goods, with the total cubic measurement. In this case, the landed quantities are compared, the specification computed, and an average content of 120 pieces struck. (2) The Landing Surveyor then permits the delivery of the cargo by tally, writing off the average found on the 120 pieces to half a load only. Planed or Dressed Woods must be measured after the above modes, according to their peculiar character or dimensions. Railway Sleepers.-For the proper modes of assessing these and other like irregular goods, vide "Wood," in " Miscellaneous Orders." Staves are taken by average measurements. Piles of 360 of each kind, and under that number the whole pile, being cubed, with all dimensions taken to the inch. Handspikes, Spokes, and Oars, rough or made up, are all taken by tale. Teak Wood, Ship Building Woods admitted on the same terms as Teak Wood; Furniture Woods and Dye Woods (estimated by the ton), as also Wastewood, Billet or Brushwood estimated in the bulk, being free of duty, accounts of the masters of Government yards, importing merchants, wharfingers, and of the several dock companies may be taken for the specific quantities, after due examination. (1) Deals and wood measured singly must have a progressive number, and the contents scribed on each piece. (2) By G. O. No. 17, 1858, it was laid down that in lieu of the computation by average, the cubical content of the specification (which is to be worked out as at present), be divided by 50, by which means the actual number of loads contained in the cargo will be arrived at., ARTICLES OF BRITISH PRODUCE USUALLY EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.(') N.B.-In every instance in which any denomination of Tale, Weight or Measure is affixed to the name of an Article in this List, the quantity of such article is to be exhibited under that denomination in addition to the value, which is in no case to be omitted. Where a denomination of quantity is not attached to the article, the value alone is required. (1) Articles of Irish Produce or Manufacture are to be distinguished from British, and all articles shipped under the authority of the Lords of her Majesty's Committee of Council for Trade, or of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, are to be specially distinguished from the ordinary Export. |