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they have some chance of supplying these articles for 
‘that consumption, which in the present situation of 
matters, it is impofsible they can have, for the reasons a- 
bove afsigned. 
4. Another considerable re the curers of pro- 
visions for exportation in Britain are under, is, That 
no barrel is entitled to any drawback whatever, unlefs it 
contains 32 gallons Englith wine measure, and hal!-bar- 
rels in proportion. The memorialists do not know whe- 
ther any Acts of Parliament in England specify the quan- 
tity of beef and pork to be packed in each barrel; but 
the Scots Act, 1st Queen Anne, sect. iii cap. 5. which 
enacts, That each barrel fhall contain 8 gallons Scotch 
measure, being alittle more than 28 gallons Englith wine 
measure only, requires 2.0 lib. well pined beef or pork to 
be packed in each barrel, And it is somewhat extraordi- 
nary, that the 8th article of the-Union, by which the 
drawback on exportation of §s. per barrel is granted to 
Scotland, is wholly silent both as to the size of the bar- 
rels, and quantity to be packed therein: And the Britith 
Act, 5th Geo. J. cap. xviii. sect. 15. which enacts, That, 
“as the herring-barrels contain only 8 gallons 2 pints 
Scotch measure, which is only 29 gallons 3 pints 14 gill 
Englith measure, they fhall, after the 1st June 1719, be 
the same all over Britain, and contain 32 gallons,”—re- 
lates only to the size of barrels used in packing herrings, 
without taking any notice of the size of those of beef and 
pork : nor,,so far as the memorialists know, has there 
been any Act of Parliament since, relative to the size of 
such barrels. It would appear, therefore, that the barrel 
of 8 gallons Scotch measure required by the Act of Queen 
Anne to contain 200 lib. well-pined beef or pork, is en- 
titled, in Scotland, to the drawback of, 5s. on exportation : 
But the contrary practice has crept in; as no barrel con-" 
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