amount to #0 17 11 3/4
And, When buss herrings are entered for home consumption in
Scotland, and
pay the shilling a barrel of duty, the bounty
stands thus, to wit as before
#0 12 3 3/4
From which the
1s. a barrel is to be deducted 0 1 0
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0 11 3 3/4
But to that there is to be added again the
duty of the foreign
salt used in curing a barrel of herrings, viz.
0 12 6
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So that the premium
allowed for each barrel of herring entered
for home consumption is #1 3 9 3/4
If the herrings are cured
with British salt, it will stand as
follows, viz. Bounty on each barrel brought in by the busses as
above
#0 12 3 3/4
From which deduct the 1s. a barrel paid at the time they are
entered for home consumption
0 1 0
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#0 11 3 3/4
But if to the bounty the duty on two bushels of Scots salt at
1s. 6d. per
bushel, supposed to be the quantity at a medium used
in curing each barrel, is added, to wit 0 3 0
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The premium for each barrel entered for home consumption will
be #0 14 3 3/4
Though the loss
of duties upon herrings exported cannot,
perhaps properly be considered as bounty; that upon herrings
entered for home consumption certainly may.     
An Account of the Quantity of Foreign Salt imported in Scotland, and of
Scots Salt delivered Duty free
from the Works there for the Fishery, from the 5th of April 1771 to the 5th of April 1782, with a Medium
of both for one Year.     
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Scots Salt
Foreign Salt delivered from
Period
Imported the Works
Bushels Bushels
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From
the 5th of April 1771
to the 5th of April 1782 936,974 168,226
Medium for one Year 85,179 5/11 15,293
3/11
It is to be observed that the Bushel of Foreign Salt weights 84 lb., that
of British Salt 56 lb. only.