Gaging - Early works to 1800
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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. The third 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. Bonum qu? communius e? melius. Dedicated (by Permission) to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise. By William Symons, Collector of Excise.
Symons, WilliamDate: MDCCLXX. [1770]- E-books
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The practical gager or, the young gager's assistant. Containing those things which are actually practised, and which are 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. A new edition. With an appendix; Containing several Additions, viz. The Method of Gaging by equidistant Ordinates; Inching and Tabulating close Casks; and Specimens of Vouchers and Abstracts for the several Duties. Bonum quo communius eo melius. Dedicated (by Permission) to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise. By William Symons, Collector of Excise.
Symons, WilliamDate: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- E-books
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The general gauger or, the principles and practice of gauging beer, wine, and malt. Containing, I. Decimal Arithmetick, the Extraction of the Square and Cube-Roots, and the Use of them in the Way of Gauging. II. The Necessary Problems in Geometry relating to Gauging and Measuring. III. The Use of the Sliding-Rule in Measuring Timber, and other Surfaces and Solids. IV. The Theory and Practice of Gauging in all the Varieties, perform'd by Pen, and Sliding-Rule. Each Proposition being Wrought in Beer, Wine, and Malt. V. The Construction of the Table of Segments, and all the Varieties of Ullaging of Casles. VI. A Table of Area's in Malt Bushels, &c. To which is added, An Appendix for measuring Boards, Timber, Stone, &c. With Rules and Examples for measuring most sorts of supersicial and solid Figures: Also surveying of Land. The whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By Mr. John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester.
Dougharty, John, 1677-1755.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- E-books
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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.
Symons, WilliamDate: 1758- E-books
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The royal gauger or, gauging made easy, as it is actually practised by the officers of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise. In two parts. Part I. Containing the practical Methods of finding the Area's 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, Sope, 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 thirty Years past, though yet never treated of by any Author. With the Officer's Duty in the Distillery. 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 desire to ascertain the Amount of their respective Duties, and not wholly to depend upon the Skill and Integrity of the King's Officer. To which is added, Cask-Gauging, &c. as practis'd in the Port of London. The Whole illustrated with many New Copper-Plates adapted to the Subject. The second edition, very much enlarged and improved, for the Benefit of Young Officers, from the Valuable and Authentic manuscripts of a collector, and a general surveyor of the Excise, both lately deceased. By Charles Leadbetter, Many Years a Gauger in the Royal Revenue of Excise.
Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728.Date: 1743