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BOURBON WHISKEY.

443

To one hundred gallons of proof spirit, adcl four ounces of pear oil, two

ounces of pelargonif ether, thirteen clracbms of oil of wintergreen (dissolved

in the ether), and one gallon of wine vinegar. Color with burnt sugar.

BRANDY.

444

To forty gallons of pure or neutral spirits add one pound of crude tartar

cLissolved in one gall on of bot water; acetic ether one-quarter pint; bruised

raisins, si.x pounds; tincture of kino, two ounces, and sugar, three pounds.

Color with burnt sugar. Let it stand two weeks, and then draw off.

BRANDY BITTERS.

445

Bruised gentian, eight ounces; orange peel, five ounces ; cardamons,

three ounces; cassia, one ounce ; cochineal, one-quarter ounce; and spirit, one

gallon. Digest for one week, then decant the clear, and pour firn pints of

wa ter on the dregs. Digest for one week longer, decant, and mix the two

tinctures together.

CARLISLE BILL OF ALLOWANCES.

446

FOR SHRINKAGE IN BONDED WHISKIES.

1 Proof gallon for 2 months ur part thereof.

11h Proof gal lon for more tha n 2 months a nd not more than 4 months.

2 Proof gallons for more than 4 months a nd not more than 6 months.

2 1h Proof gallons for more

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6 mouths and not more than 8 months.

3 Proof gallons for more than 8 months and not more than 10 months.

31h Proof gallons for more than 10 months and not more than 12 months.

4 Proof gallons for more than 12 mouths and not more than 15 months.

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Proof gallons for more than 15 months and not more than 18 mouths.

5 Proof gallons for more than 18 mouths ancl not more than 21 months.

51h Proof gallons for more tha n 21 months and not more tha n 24 months.

6 Proof gallons for more than 24 mouths and not more than 27 months.

61h Proof gallons for more than 27 months and not more than 30 months.

.7 Proof gallons for more than 30 mouths ancl not more than 33 months.

71/? Proof gallons for more than 33 months aatl not mo re tha n 37 mouths.

Or in a package of less than 40 and not less tha n 20 wine ga!Jons car

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on e-half th e f oregoing a mount."s. But a.Jlowa n es for

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amounts above stated.