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Table of the strengths of spirits formed under the commissioners of excise, to be used by the officers of customs and excise.
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3. And whereas the strengths of spirits denoted by the said hydrometer called Sikes's hydrometer, according to the temperature thereof, have been, under the direction of the commissioners of excise for England, set down in a table intituled “A table of the strength of spirits denoted by Sikes's hydrometer,” and which said table has been and is subscribed by the hand of the Right Honourable Nicholas Vansittart, chancellor of the Exchequer, and lodged with the commissioners of excise for England; and it is expedient to make such provision for and in respect thereof as is herein-after mentioned: Be it therefore enacted, that the strengths of spirits so set down in the said table shall, in and throughout the said United Kingdom, be deemed and taken to be trae and just, and that the said table shall on all necessary or convenient occasions be used by every officer and officers of his Majesty's revenues of customs and excise respectively, in and throughout the said United Kingdom for the purposes in that behalf aforesaid, and the results of such use shall on all occasions be deemed and taken to be accurate and just results.
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