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quart and pint derived frora it, and of their parts, be procured witbout 

 delay for tiie Exchequer, and for such otiier offices in your Majesty's do- 

 minions, as may be judged most convenient for the ready use of your 

 Majesty's subjects. 



4.— Whether any further legislative enactments are required, for enforc- 

 ing a uniformity of practice tiiroughout the British empire, we do not feel 

 ourselves competent to determine. But it appears to us, that nothing 

 would be more conducive to the attainment of tliis end, than to increase 

 as far as possible, the facility of a ready recurrence to the legal standards 

 which we apprehend to be in a great measure attainable by the means that 

 Tve have recommended ; it would also, in all probability, be of advantage 

 to give a greater degree of publicity to the Appendix of our last Report, 

 containing a comparison of the castomary measures employed throughout 

 the country. 



5. — We are not aware that any further services remain for us to per- 

 form in the execution of the commands laid upon us by Your Majesty's 

 commission ; but, if any superintendence of the regulations to be adopted 

 were thought necessary, we should still be ready to undertake such inspec- 

 tions and examinations, as might be required for the complete attainment 

 of the objects in question. 



London, (Signed) George Clehk. 



31 March, I82i. Davies Gilbert. 



w. h, wollaston. 

 Thomas Young. 

 Henry Kater. 



APPENDIX. 



The commissioners having been furnished, by the kindness of the 

 Honourable Charles C. C Jenkinsoit, with the apparatus employed by the 

 late Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn, in the determination of the magnitude 

 of the standard weights, and there being some doubt of the perfect accuracy 

 of his method of measuring the capacity of the bodies employed, it was 

 judged necessary to repeat that measurement with greater precautions j and 

 the results of Captain Kater's experiments have afforded some slight cor- 

 rections of the capacities in question. 



The sides of Sir George Shuckburgh's cube were found by Captain Kater 

 equal to 4.9391 1, 4.98934, and 498935 inches ; the diameter of the cyhnder 

 3-99713, and and its length 5.99600 inches; and the diameter of the 

 xpherc 6.00759 inches. Hence the conteut of the cube appears to be 

 124.19^9 inches; that of the cylinder 75.2398; and that of the sphere 

 113.5264 inches of Bird's parliamentary standard of 1760, recommended 

 in the last Report of the commissioners, or of the standard made by 

 Troughton for Sir George Shuckburgh. 



