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5. The hours of the day to be numbered from one to twenty-four 
without interruption, and the division of the day into two halves of 
twelve hours each to be abandoned. 
6. For special purposes, as with a view to promote exactness in 
chronology and to facilitate synchronous observations in science, the 
day and the time of the day as determined by the prime meridian to be 
employed as a kind of universal time-reckoning, under the name of 
COSMOPOLITAN TIME. 
7. For the sake of distinction, the hours ot Cosmopolitan Time to be 
denoted by symbols and not by numbers; and preferably by the letters 
of the English alphabet taken in their order, which, omitting J and V, 
are twenty-four in number—-these letters being also associated with 
the standard meridians in regular order from east to west, so that F 
corresponds to the go° meridian passing near Calcutta, M to the Green- 
wich meridian of 180°, S to the meridian of New Orleans, 270°, and 
Z to the prime or zero meridian. 
In proposing these resolutions, President Barnard made the following 
remarks: 
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“The bounding lines between the successive meridians at which the 
count of the hour shall change, it is not proposed to define with the 
same geometrical precision which characterizes the meridians them- 
selves. The idea is rather to follow any well-known natural or politi- 
cal divisions which fall approxima:ely midway between the meridians, 
and which will serve as easily remembered reference boundaries. On 
the American Continent, such lines of demarcation are easily found. 
The States and provinces which touch the Mississippi r.ver will use 
valley time; the Canadas, and the States of the Union which lie east 
of these valley States, and most of which touch the Atlantic, will use 
Atlantic time; the British provinces farther eastward will use eastern. 
time ; the States and provinces which touch the Pacific, will use Pacific 
time ; and all those which lie between the Pacific States and the valley 
States will use mountain time. 
The means by which we expect to establish this system on the 
American Continent, are partly the voluntary action of the transporta- 
tion companies; partly the co-operation of municipal corporations 
and chambers of commerce; and partly local legislation. Already 
many local organizations have taken steps for the establishment of 
time-balls and other time-signals in furtherance of the practical intro- 
duction of the system. The State of Connecticut has enacted a 
statute making the use of New York time compulsory upon all trans- 
portation companies within her limits. : 2 * S = 
The Governor-General of Canada, the Marquis of Lorne, has been 
