Section XXVII Allowance of Four Bushels out of every Twenty Bushels of Grain charged upon the Floor

Provided always That if any Barley or other Corn or Grain that hath been steeped or wetted in any Cistern Utingfat or other Vessell shall be found working or growing upon the Floor before it is put upon the Kiln in order to be made into Malt after the said Ninth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and one or at the Time of gauging or charging Stock in Hand which when dried and made into Malt will not answer so great a Quantity from the Floor as from the Cistern or Fat It is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of every Twenty Bushels so charged upon the Floor there shall be an Allowance made to the X1Owner of the said Malt of Four Bushels 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 making upon the Floor and the Quantity thereof when it is dried and perfectly made into Malt Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding