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and weigh each package himself nicely, any time before the 

 weights are to be taken by the Customs. Then let him 

 make each package 2 ounces above the even number of 

 pounds. This will be easy enough, by the addition or 

 subtraction of a few nails or hoop iron. For instance, 

 suppose the chest to weigh 140 pounds 6 ounces, he would 

 take away nails or hoop iron weighing 4 ounces. If it 

 weighed 140 pounds 13 ounces, he would, by adding 5 

 ounces more nails or hoop iron, make it 141 pounds 2 

 ounces. All would then be finished, and each and every 

 package so treated would give a loss in Tea of 4 ounces only. 



If my plan could be carried out (as the minimum loss 

 otherwise is 2 ounces, and the maximum i pound 14 

 ounces the mean is one pound), we save a loss of the said 

 pound on each chest, minus the loss we compound for, 

 viz., 4 ounces. That is to say, we gain 12 ounces on each 

 package which, in a break of 2 or 3 hundred chests, means 

 a good deal to the producer or Customs ! 



I will give one example in figures. Any other possible 

 figures can be tried : it will always come out the same, 

 if the weight of Tea is exactly 4 ounces above any given 



number of pounds. 



No. 3. EXAMPLE. 



Ibs. oz. 

 Results at Garden. Tea, any number of pounds 



with 4 ounces added (say) ... ... 100 4 



Tare (any figure) (say) ... 43 6 



Gross at Garden ... 143 10 



The wood lightens in transit any amount (it is immaterial), 



say 15 ounces. 



Ibs. oz. 

 The weights at the Custom House j Gross ... 142 n 



then become { Tare ... 42 7 



Weight Tea as before ... 100 4 



