Section XVIII

Allowance of Four Bushels out of every Twenty Bushels of Malt for wetting.

And in regard the Quantity of Barley or other Corn or Grain taken by the Gauge in any Cistern Utingfat or other Vessell or Utensil wherein such Barley or other Corn or Grain shall be found wetting or steeping or which shall be found to have been wetted or steeped for the making of Malt is by this Act to be charged and returned by the Gauger as so many Bushells of Malt it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of every Twenty Bushells so charged by the Gauger there shall be an Allowance made to the Maker of the said Malt of Four Bushells and out of every greater or lesser Quantity a proportionable Allowance shall be made in consideration of the difference between the Quantity of such Corn when it is wett and swoln and the Quantity thereof when it is converted into X1dry Malt Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding