Weights and Measures of New York, 323 



Town Sealer of each town, in their respective counties, with copies 

 of such standards at the expense of the town, on which the County 

 Sealer shall impress, in addition to the state device and the county 

 device, such other device, as the board of supervisors shall direct, 

 for the several towns in the county, which town device shall be 

 recorded in the clerk's office of the county. 



" 26. It shall be the duty of the Town Sealers of weights and 

 measures, to compare such copies, once in every three years, with 

 those existing in the office of the County Sealer. 



*' The several Assistant State Sealers, the Sealer of the city and 

 county of New York, the County Sealers, and Town Sealers, shall 

 compare all weights and measures, which shall be brought to them 

 for that purpose, with the abovementioned copies of such standards 

 in their possession ; and when the same are found or made by 

 him to conform to the legal standard, the officer comparing them, 

 shall seal and mark such weights and measures." 



The remaining sections of this Title contain only some un- 

 important local regulation. 



Remarks on the Ruins at Palenque in Guatemala, and on the 

 Origin of the American Indians, with a note on Fossil 

 Remains, By John Ranking, Esq. 



(Continued from our last vol. and concluded.) 



Guatemala and Yucatan have been proved, by the remarks 

 on the ruins at Palenque, to bear strong evidence of their 

 having' been peopled by Asiatics; Turks, Moguls, and Calmucs. 

 Identifications of a more general nature will now be given, 

 which will probably not leave any doubt on the subject. They 

 are derived from a Spaniard who is a native of the city of New 

 Guatemala*. When the Toltecs arrived in Guatemala, their 

 king Nima Quiche died during their journey from Tula^ and 

 his three brothers divided the country between them. From 

 this family J all the progeny of kings derive their origin, (pp. 

 165, 404). They found the country possessed by different 

 nations, (p. 161) f. The third Toltecan emperor, Hunahpu, 



* A Statistical and Commercial History of the Kingdom of Guatemala, from 

 original records in the archives, actual observations, &c. by Don Domingo Juarros. 

 Translated by Lieutenant J. Bailey, R. M. 8vo. London, 1823. 



t We have seen that the Toltecs emigrated from Anahuac, A.D. 1052, See thit 

 Journal, No. V. p. 143. 



