The practical gager: or the young gager's assistant. Containing those things which are actually practised, and which are also absolutely necessary to be known and understood by every person that is employed as a gager or officer in the Revenue of Excise. To which are added, All the necessary Tables for gaging and fixing the Utensils of Victuallers, Common Brewers, and Distillers: Also for moneying the several Sorts of Goods, or for finding the Amounts of the Charges. Very useful for Supervisors, Officers, and Collectors Clerks. Second edition. With an appendix; containing several additions, viz. the Method of gaging by equidistant Ordinates; inching and tabulating of close Casks; and Specimens of Vouchers and Abstracts for the several Duties. Dedicated (by permission) to the honourable Commissioners of Excise by William Symons, Supervisor of Excise.

Date:

1758