h what are duty of three pence a barrel on beer, substituted in 1862 for the task of producing annually among them 20,000,000 barrels the duty on hops. The excise duty on malt is 2s. 83d. per called ferro-metallic squares. of beer for home consumption, beside the immense export. The heavy Scotch… … 163. They reap (indirectly) 30,000 of the excise laws of Europe rela- acres of land yearly of its crop of barley, yielding 1,280,000 tive to malt liquors, to be presented to the United States bushel yielding halfan English barrel(about 22 American gal- bushels of malt. They consume 130 tuns of coal…
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