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per gallon, for every gallon of such excess: and if there be any decrease in such slock, not duly ac- counted for by the spirits sent out with permit, and exceeding Jive per centum on the balance or stock left on hand at the last preceding account, together with the quantity since lawfully received, the Wholesale Dealer in whose stock such decrease is found shall forfeit and lose the sum of twenty shil- lings per gallon, for every gallon of such defi- ciency. 1 Thus we see that a Wholesale Dealer's chance of defrauding the public, with respect to deteriorated is a very slender one indeed; because, should he either wilfully, or in error, state the strengths on his permits, for the goods he may send out, at a higher rate than is correct, an increase to the same amount, as occasioned by such errors, is sure to be found in his stock, by the officer on the next survey ; or, if at a less rate, or any accident occurs, by which a portion of Spirit is lost, a de- crease would appear in the same manner, for which, we perceive, on reference to the Act, the dealer is as liable to punishment as though he had obtained an increase by receiving into his stock a quantity of smuggled goods. A Retailer's stock (although a wholesale business may be supplied from it, and conducted on one, and the same premises), receives no difference in the mode of its survey from that of a person who is entirely or exclusively a retail dealer, The techni- Spirits,