The Excise Officer's Manual and Improved Gauger: Being a Compendious (Classic Reprint)

In unidertaking the present work, the Author contemplated nothing more than anew edition of Symons Ganger, a work U3naU yplaced in the hands of yonng persons on their first appointment as Excise Officers ;and it was not until he had proceeded a considerable way in revising that work, that he found it neoessary to make such alterations and additions as gave to it altogether a different character and required a new title. This will in some measure account for the diversity of style and arrangement in the different parts of the work. Although the work is no longer a new edition, it lays claim to no higher character than that of a compilation. Not only has the Author considered it his duty to borrow largely, from the various woiks on Gauging to which he could obtain access ;but wherever he could meet with information, bearing the stamp of authority, he has not scrupled to make use of it; considering that he was thereby carrying out the principles laid down in the reports recently made toG overnment upon this important branch of the revenue. I f, in any instance, he has omitted to acknowledge the authority used, he hopes it will be attributed to inadvertence, rather than to any design of arrogating to himself the honour due to others. To his friend Thomas Julians, Esq.
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