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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: certainty, the value of his malt, and thereby to produce quantity, according to the quality of the malt he may be using. 1 have also given the names and character of the various qualities of beer and ale brewed both in Great Britain and Germany; and the better to establish my own views upon important scientific points, I have advanced the opinions of eminent authorities Dr. Ure, Leibig, and others by way of illustration and argument. Since the Reign of Queen Elizabeth an era celebrated for monopolies no trade nor manufacture has laboured under so vast a complication of oppressions, from fiscal regulations, and other disadvantageous circumstances, as the malt trade ; nor does it appear that, even in this age of ultra emancipation, and of Free trade notions, the trade would in any degree have liberated itself, excepting for the celebrated attempt of Government to impose such extravagant restrictions upon the manufacture, during the Sessions 1827 (7 and 8 Geo. IV) as to cause an almost to'.al prostration of the malting trade ! This Act not only imposed superabundant restrictions, regulations, and penalties, but fettered and tormented the trade with an additional mode of charge, by means of a ' certiBcate' system, when one good mode was all that was wanted. The collective wisdom of the country treated the maltsters to two methods of charge; the first by means of gauging whilst the malt is under vegetation; and the second upon dry malt sold and delivered. chapter Section 4The effect of these hardships on the trade, soon led to the formation of an Association of Maltsters in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of applying to the Legislature for the suspension of the most obnoxious of the clauses ; and their ulterior view was to prepare a respectful, energetic, and united applicati...
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