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The method of ullaging and inching all sorts of casks and other utensils, used by common brewers, victuallers, distillers, &c. in a new, easy, and accurate manner, by tables of segments. Likewise, The Method of finding their full Contents. Very useful for the Officers of the Revenue, And all other Persons concerned in Gauging. By William Yeo.
Yeo, William, excise officer.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The royal gauger; or, Gauging made perfectly easy, as it it actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise. In two parts. Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging. Also the established rules for finding the contents of all sorts of cisterns, coppers, backs, coolers, tuns, stills and casks, when full, or part empty: the examples being performed here both by the pen and sliding rule: and this not in ale, beer, wine, and malt only; but in made-wines, soap, starch, candles, hops, coffee, tea, chocolate, all sorts of leather, paper, &c. which have been very considerable branches of the revenue, as well as of every excise officer's duty for above forty years past, though yet never treated of by any author. With the officer's duty in the distillery, and glass-house: freed from the obscurities and errors of other writers. Part II. Shewing the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise, with authentic forms of such certificates, petitions, oaths, &c. as are requisite for that purpose. Together with such directions for the officer's conduct as are necessary for ascertaining and securing the duties, to which the respective traders are subject; and very advantageous to those traders, who are desirous to ascertain the amount of their respective duties, without entirely depending upon the skill and integrity of the King's officer. To which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London. The whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject. The fourth edition, very much enlarged and improved, for the benefit of young officers, from the valuable and authentic manuscripts of a collector; and of Mr. John Downer and Mr. Joseph Bosley, general surveyors of the London distillery. lately deceased, By Charles Leadbetter. Many years a gauger in the Royal Revenue of Excise.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1755- Books
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Stenography: or, the art of short-hand writing. With new additions, as in the pages 21, 22, 23, 24. and some alterations.
Date: 1712- Books
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The young gauger's instructor, being the most plain and easy introduction to that art. Wherein are contained, the doctrine of decimal arithmetick; the Method of Extracting the Roots of all Powers, in a New, Easy, and more Expeditious Method than hitherto published: the method of gauging all kinds of vessels, as used by the Officers of Excise: a new, easy and short way of ullaging casks by the pen: the description, Construction and Use of the sliding rule, with several necessary Amendments; as also several useful Tables and Problems, never before published. To which is added, an appendix, of the Gauging of Irregular Bodies, wherein several Errors of all former Writers on this Subject are demonstrated and corrected. By Isaac Overley, Late Officer of Excise. And likewise, a supplement, by the editors: Wherein is shewn a general Method for finding the Areas, or Solid Contents of all Kinds of curvilineal Figures.
Overley, Isaac.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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Stereometry, or, the art of gauging made easie, by the help of a sliding-rule: Which shews the Area's of Circles in Gallons, and the Square and Cube Root of any Number under 100000, by Inspection: And is also very useful in Arithmetick and Geometry, particularly in the Measuring of Superficies and Solids. With an appendix of conick sections: Shewing the Nature, Properties, and Contents of several Solids, frequently mentioned in Books of Gauging. The eighth edition, carefully corrected. To which are added several new tables, with Short and Plain Rules for Gauging of Malt. by Tho. Everard, Esq.
Everard, Thomas, active 1683-1684.Date: 1721