Empty Barrels Number of Barrels of Herrings Bounty paid on YearsBusses carried out caught the Busses L s.
d. 1771 29 5948 2832208500
1772 168 41316 22237 1105576
1773 190 42333 42055 1251086
1774 248 59303 56365 1695226
1775 275 69144 52879 19315 150
1776 294 76329 51863 2129076
1777 240 62679 43313 1759226
1778 220 56390 40958 1631626
1779 206 55194 29367 1528700
1780 181 48315 19885 13445 126
1781 135 33992 165939613 126
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Total 2186 550943 378347 155463 110
Seasteeks 378,347Bounty at a medium for each barrel of seasteeks L0 8 21/4
But a barrel of seasteeks being only reckoned two-thirds of a barrel fully packed, one-third is deducted, which brings the bounty toL0 12 33/4 1/3 deducted 126,115 2/3
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Barrels fully packed 252,231 1/3
And if the herrings are exported, there is, besides, a premium of 0 2 8--------------
So that the bounty paid by Government in money for each barrel is L0 14 11 3/4But if to this the duty of the salt usually taken credit for as expended in curing each barrel, which at a medium is of foreign, one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel, at 10s. a bushel, be added, viz. 0 12 6--------------
The bounty on each barrel would amount to L1 75 3/4
If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand thus, viz. Bounty as beforeL0 1411 3/4
But if to this 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 03 0
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The bounty on each barrel will amount toL0 17 11 3/4And, 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 L0 12 3 3/4From which the 1s. a barrel is to be deducted0 1 0--------------
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 L1 3 9 3/4If the herrings are cured with British salt, it will stand as follows, viz. Bounty on each barrel brought in by the busses as above L0 12 33/4
From which deduct the 1s. a barrel paid at the time they are entered for home consumption 0 1 0--------------
L0 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--------------
The premium for each barrel entered for home consumption will be L0 14 3 3/4Though 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.
Scots Salt Foreign Salt delivered from Period Imported the Works Bushels Bushels From the 5th of April 1771to the 5th of April 1782936,974 168,226Medium for one Year85,179 5/11 15,293 3/11It is to be observed that the Bushel of Foreign Salt weights 84 lb., that of British Salt 56 lb. only.
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