# Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696, Section XVI


Allowance for Difference of Quantity between Corn when wet and when converted into dry Malt.
And in regard the Quantity of Barley or other Corne or Graine taken by the Gauge in any Cisterne Uting Fatt or other Vessell or Utensil wherein such Barley or other Corne or Graine 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 & returned by the Gauger as so many Bushels of Malt Itt 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 Foure 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 Corne when itt is wett and swollen and the Quantity thereof when it is converted into dry Malt Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/22/section/XVI (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-4-act-1696-aep-will38-9-22/section-XVI
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