Excerpt from The Excise Officer's Manual, and Improved Practical Gauger: Being a Compendious Introduction to the Business of Charging and Collecting the Duties of ExciseAlthough the work is no longer a new edition, it lays claim to no higher character than that of a compilation. Not only has the Author considered it his duty to borrow largely, from the various works on Gauging to which he could obtain access but wherever he could meet with information, bearing the stamp of authority, he has not scrupled to make use of it, considering that he was thereby carrying out the principles laid down in the reports recently made to Government upon this important branch of the revenue. If, in any instance, he has omitted to acknow ledge the authority used, he hopes it will be attributed to inadvertence, rather than to any design of arrogating to himself the honour due to Others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.