Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw].

  • Shaw, Thomas George.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    themselves, preferring to employ agents; some of whom, though receiving salaries of only 300^. or 400Z., left fortunes of 100,000Z. at their decease. Many firms paid 4/6 for each entry; and when it was of importance to get the cask off on the same day, what was called a Reading-out entry was necessary, for wliich an additional 1 /6 was charged. The next day, on showing the excise warrant, a permit was granted for the party to whom the wine was to be sent; and this being shown to the excise officer at the vault, he compared it -with the delivery order of the dock company. If the customs officer happened to be near, the delay might not be very great; but as it was necessary that the two should be present together to ‘ pass ’ the cask, a most tedious waste of time was often the result. Increase, or reductions of the duty, at that time, and until 1824, were made by adding or deducting so much per tun; and this, being divided by the number of gallons in the tun, gave the rates per old gallon. Part was paid to the Excise, and the re- mainder to the Customs. The whole, upon Port, Sherry, Cape, &c., was 7/7, of which the Excise received 4/2, and the Customs 3/5. On Madeira it was 7/8, on Ehenish 9/5, and on French 11/5; each branch of the revenue receiving its propor- tion of these sums. After wine was ‘ permitted ’ out of the docks into’ the dealers’ cellars, French and Cape had to be kept