Section IV

What shall be accounted a Barrel.; Allowances for Leakage.

And for the avoiding all uncertainty and all differences and disputes which of late have beene betweene the Gaugers and the Brewers Victuallers Retailers and other persons chargeable with the duties of Excise touching Beere and Ale and touching the Returns or Charges made or to be made of Beere or Ale by the Gaugers or Officers appointed to take account and ascertaine the same Bee it enacted X1and declared by the authority aforesaid That every foure and thirty Gallons of Beere or Ale whether strong or small brewed or made in any part of England Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede by any the person or persons aforesaid other then within the Cityes of London and Westminster and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality taken by the Gauger according to the Standard of the Ale Quart foure whereof shall make the Gallon remaineing in the Custody of the Chamberlaine of their Majesties Exchequer shall be reckoned accounted and returned by the Gauger or Gaugers or other Officers aforesaid for a Barrell of Beere or Ale And that the allowances appointed to be made and allowed to the Common Brewers other then within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Weekly Bills of Mortality aforesaid for Waste by filling and leakage of their Beere and Ale out of the said Returns or Charges made by the said Gaugers or other Officers aforesaid shall be two Barrells and an halfe upon every three and twenty Barrells of Beere or Ale whether strong or small and noe more any thing in the above mentioned Acts or any other Act of Excise or any Law or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding and that every Barrell of Beere and Ale made and brewed within the said Cities of London and Westminster and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality aforesaid by any the persons aforesaid shall be reckoned accounted and returned as the same are respectively to be reckoned accounted and returned by the former Acts of Excise and that the Common Brewers within the Cities of London and Westminster and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality shall have the like allowances for waste by filling and leakage out of the said Gaugers Returns as by the said former Acts are directed