HC Deb 06 March 1900 vol 80 cc259-60

5. "That in addition to the duty of excise now payable in respect of beer brewed in the United Kingdom there shall, on and after the sixth day of March, nineteen hundred, and until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and one, be charged, levied, and paid the following duties (that is to say):—

£ s. d.
For every thirty-six gallons of worts of a specific gravity of one thousand and fifty-five degrees the duty of 0 1 0
and so in proportion for any difference in quantity or gravity."