1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

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conduct it on a fair and equitable basis, whether with regard to the Revenue or the Public ; whilst the person who is possessed of a Wholesale License, united with his Retail one, is enabled to impose on both with impunity ; his wholesale stock being taken as connected with his retail trade, and on a principle totally different, to that arranged for those who belong to the other class. To enable my Readers thoroughly to compre- hend this difference, it may be necessary to explain it in a technical way, as more clearly elucidating the extensive latitude afforded, where the whole- sale and retail businesses are conducted on one, and the same premises. Of a Wholesale Dealer's stock (who is exclu- sively such), an account is taken in what is techni- contained in his Brandy, Rum, Gin, &c. is ascertained by means of the hydrometer, and is equalized so as to appear a whole quantity, under each particular head, ac- cording to its sort \ whatever is brought into stock of spirits, the permit must either specify the per centage of strength of the article, and the quantity, or only the total quantum of Proof Spirits, which is contained in the bulk of the goods protected by it; and in sending out Spirits, the Dealer is obliged also to express, on his request note, what per centage of strength the liquor is of, before he can obtain the permit. On the Exciseman's attending to take the cally termed Proof Spirit t which is thus: The separate per centages of spirit