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charged as well on the overproof; the expenses may be reckoned at 3d. per gallon. An example, therefore, of the cost at proof of 100 gallons of Leeward Island Rum at ten per cent, overproof, and examples also of the various prices to which it may be further reduced, are given as follows :

Example 1

100 Gallons

Lee-

L. s. 8 15 42 10

of

s. d.

d.

ward Island Rum, at 1 9 per gal.

- - 450 ,

- 8 6

Duty on 100 gals.

*10 Gals, of overproof- 8 6

-

Expenses on 100

..... 03

5

1

gals.

* For 10 gals, of overproof,

-

a

HO Gallons of proof Rum, to cost) 56 15

wate S

are

r

A 20

10s. 3|rf. T 3

put into the / cask, which I thus makes

.

y per gallon

110)1135(10.3f t \

110

up

/

gals.

per gal.

.

.

35

110)420(3 330 ~90~ 4 110)360(J 330 ~30