J. Ewing Ritchie (author)
- additional quantity of 1,722,873 cwts. would raise revenue to £6,719,205 ⟨at rate of 24 shillings per cwt⟩
an additional quantity (which at present gives no revenue at all) of 1,722,873 cwts. would, at the rate of 24_s._ per cwt., raise the revenue to £6,719,205
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The quoted text explicitly states that an additional quantity of 1,722,873 cwts. at the rate of 24 shillings per cwt. would raise the revenue to £6,719,205, with no added interpretation or outside knowledge required.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the passage presents this as the author's argumentative proposal). The stance is accurately marked as 'asserts' - the author presents this as a factual consequence of the proposed policy. The sentiment is appropriately neutral, reflecting the dispassionate presentation of economic calculations. Time qualifiers are correctly set to null, as the passage provides no specific temporal scope for when this would occur. The context accurately captures the conditional rate of 24 shillings per cwt. The quote is verbatim and directly supports the claim's assertion about the revenue outcome.