Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury: Of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers, Made Under the Superintendence of Professor R. S. McCullohWendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848 - 653 страници |
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Страница 4 - The Secretary of the Treasury may, under the direction of the President, adopt such hydrometer as he may deem best calculated to promote the public interest for the purpose of ascertaining the proof of liquors; and, after such adoption, the duties imposed by law upon distilled spirits shall be collected according to the proof ascertained by any hydrometer so adopted.* 1881.
Страница 51 - States, and exported therefrom, equal in amount to the duty paid on the foreign sugar from which it shall be manufactured, to be ascertained under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and no more...
Страница 52 - Wheat. 438, 439 ; and there is not the slightest inclination on the part of this court to retract it. Now, without minutely sifting the evidence in this case, we think that there is a decisive and unequivocal preponderance of evidence to establish, that bastard sugar is not deemed, in a commercial sense,
Страница 236 - Fahrenheit, into steam, it absorbs 1000° of heat, which becomes insensible to the thermometer, or latent ; and conversely, when steam is condensed into water, it gives out 1000° of latent heat, which thus becomes free, and affects both the thermometer and the senses. Hence steam of 212° Fahrenheit will, in condensing, heat five and a half times its own weight of water from the freezing to the boiling point.
Страница 51 - That on and after the day this law goes into effect, there shall be allowed a drawback on foreign sugar refined in the United States, and exported therefrom, equal in amount to the duty paid on the foreign sugar from which it shall be manufactured, to be ascertained...
Страница 150 - I have to state that, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no attempt at this port to defraud the revenue by the importation of "sirups as molasses...
Страница 104 - Upon every gallon of those spirits, under five, and not more than ten per cent, below proof, according to the same hydrometer, twenty-one cents.
Страница 104 - third proof," "fourth proof," "fifth proof," "sixth proof;" and that it be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide and furnish to the officers of inspection and of the customs proper instruments for ascertaining the said several proofs. SEC.
Страница 416 - ... accident get into it. The liquor having by these means been brought to the desired temperature ; the next operation was to fill up the bottle exactly to the mark upon the neck, which was done with some of the same liquor, by means of a glass funnel with a very small bore. Mr. Gilpin endeavoured to get that portion of the liquor which was employed for this purpose, pretty nearly to the temperature of the liquor contained in the bottle ; but as the whole quantity to be added never exceeded ten...
Страница 103 - ... officers take their accounts and gauges, and make calculations which occupy several hours. At 10 o'clock they again survey, going over the whole premises, where they continue a considerable time, frequently till the succeeding officer comes on duty; at 2 in the afternoon another survey takes place...