Excise (No. 3) Act 1660

X. Allowance for Waste and Leakage.

And be it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That for the better incouragement of all common brewers and makers of Beere or Ale to make due entry and payment thereof according as by this Act is appointed, the said common brewer not selling the same by Retaile for and in consideration of waste by fillings and leakage of their Beere and Ale shall have and be allowed out of the said returns made by the Gagers the severall allowances and abatements hereafter mentioned (that is to say) upon every three and twenty barrells of Beere whether strong or small returned by the said Gagers three barrells, and upon every two and twenty barrels of Ale whether strong or small returned by the Gagers two barrels which said allowances and abatements the X1 Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid and their Sub-Commissioners are hereby authorized to allow and make accordingly,

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]