BOTTLES-CAPACITY OF BRANDY, ALE, Treasury Department, February 21, 1884. The following table, exhibiting the average gauge of the principal brands of brandy, ale, beer, and porter bottles, therein mentioned, imported into the United States, may be followed by customs officers, unless actual gauge shall show a different result: ALES, ETC. * E. & J. Burke's ale and stout, 3 gills per pint bottle (S 9506). Guinness's stout and Bass ale, bottled by Read Bros., of London, England, 3 gills per pint bottle (S 11948). BRANDY IN BOTTLES, ETC. Brands. Places of Gallons, per dozen. Gills, per bottle. Arbom, Marett & Co.. Bellot & Co., J. Bisquit, Dubouche & Co Lucien, Foucand & Co. Dubois, Freres & Cayman. Etienne, Pere & Fils, Paul. Fic, Mestreaux & Co. Fouchez, Fils & Co. Fouchez & Co., L. Furland & Co., L. Hennesy & Co., Jas. Hine & Co., Thos. La Cave & Co., Geo. Lanonde Freres. Laurent & Marot, A. B.. Marteau & Co.. Martell & Co.. Mestrezat & Co.. Monnie & Co., J. Denis Henry Mounier & Co., Henry. Otard, Dupuy & Co.. Pinet, Castillon & Co.. Prunier, P.. Renny, Martin & Co., E Renault & Co. Reveire, Gradrat & Co. Robin & Co., Jules Rouyer, Guillet & Co.. Roullet & Delamain. Roy, Auguste. Sayer & Co., Geo. Sazerac de Forge & Fils. Sorin, J... The Vine Growers' Co., Jules Duret, manager. The Vineyard Proprietors' Co... Tricoche & Co.. Von Briand, I.. To test the general accuracy of these gauges, frequent actual measurements should be made at the different ports. Actual gauge, however, will be allowed only when applied for prior to delivery of the merchandise, or when the customs officers shall ascertain that the average gauge differs from the actual gauge. The Department's circular of April 7, 1876, relating to the average gauge of certain bottles, is hereby revoked, CHAS. J. FOLGER, Secretary. RATES OF TARE. ARTICLE 1498, CUSTOMS REGULATIONS, 1908 Almonds, in bales, 22 per cent; in bags, 2 per cent; in frails, 8 per cent. Alum, in casks, 10 per cent; in sacks, coarse or ground, 2 pounds per sack. Barytes, 3 per cent. Beans, castor, weight of pod. Cheese, in casks or tubs, 10 per cent. Chicory, in bags, 2 per cent. China clay, in so-called half-ton casks, 72 pounds per cask. Copperas, in casks, 10 per cent. Figs in skeleton cases: Actual tare of skeleton cases, to which add 13 per cent of weight of inside wooden boxes and figs. Gunny cloths, actual weight of ropes and covering allowed as tare. Hay, weight of sticks and wire may be allowed for, and average tare may be calculated. Hemp: Hamburg, Leghorn, Trieste, 5 pounds to each bale. Hemp, Russia, weight of tow bands. Iron rods: Bands of iron wire surrounding coiled iron rods may be allowed as tare when they consist of bands ordinarily used for such purpose and are of little or no commercial value. Lemons: Allow 10 ounces per box for paper wrappings; actual tare of outside cases. Nails, in bags, 2 per cent; in casks, 8 per cent. Nitrate of soda, 2 per cent. Ocher, dry, in casks, 8 per cent; in oil, in casks, 12 per cent. Oranges: Allow 10 ounces per box for paper wrappings; actual tare of outside cases. Ore, in sacks, 2 pounds for each sack. Peruvian bark, in ceroons, 10 per cent. Paris white, in casks, 10 per cent. Raisins, 27 per cent; actual net weight to be ascertained by emptying and weighing the contents of a sufficient number of boxes of each chop-mark to get a just average. Rice, in bags, 2 per cent. Salt, fine, in sacks, 3 pounds for each sack; coarse or ground alum-salt, in sacks, 2 pounds per sack. Spanish brown, in casks, dry, 10 per cent; in casks, in oil, 12 per cent. Sugar, in tierces and hogsheads, actual tare; in barrels, 10 per cent; in boxes, 14 per cent; in bags, 12 per cent; melado, 9 per cent; actual tare on irregular packages, and on sugar in bags from Havana. Tin, in boxes, actual net weight to be ascertained by emptying and weighing the contents of a sufficient number of boxes of each chop-mark or brand to get an average. Tobacco: Leaf, in bales, not stemmed, 13 pounds each bale; Sumatra, 41⁄2 pounds on inside matting and cord, weight of second covering to be ascertained. In any case where there is reason to believe that the invoiced tare of stemmed leaf tobacco in bales is excessive, the actual tare of at least 10 per cent of the number of bales of any importation should be ascertained. Whiting, in casks, 10 per cent. stere. Hectoliter.. Dekaliter.. Deciliter. Centiliter. 26.417 gallons. 1,000 1 cubic meter... 1.308 cu. yds.. 264.17 gallons. 2.6417 gallons. 0.338 fluid ounces. |