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Art. XV. 



An accurate mode of buying and felling Wheats 



by weight : illujirated by a Table. 



[By J. Woods, gent.] 



TN order to prevent impofition of every kind, it 

 ■^ would be neceffary to eftabliih the following re- 

 gulation, namely, to oblige the Millers and Mer- 

 chants to buy, and Farmers to fell, their Wheat in 

 every market in England by the eight-gallon bufliel, 

 (truck with a round Jirlke, fuppofing it to weigh 

 fifty-nine pounds, or four half-hundreds and twelve 

 pounds to the fack of four bulhels, exclulive of the 

 weight of the fack, and the Farmers to be account- 

 able for that weight: not to make up the deficiency 

 of light Wheat by adding to the quantity, nor by 

 making lefs meafure of the heavier; but to abate in 

 proportion to the deficiency, and to be paid over and 

 above the price agreed on in the fame proportion 

 for a greater weight, by the following rule; namely, 

 for every pound on the fack over that weight to be 

 paid the price of a gallon and a quarter of flour* per 

 load (of ten facks,) and for every pound per fack 

 deficient to abate in the fame proportion: for in- 

 ftance, Suppofe the price agreed on to be 1 2I. per 

 load, then, in cafe the wheat fliould weigh one pound 

 per fack over, the Miller would be obliged to pay 

 12I. is. 3d. per load; if two pounds over, 12I. 2:. 



