USEFUL PROJECTS. 
relation between the articles of 
corn, flour, and bread, ascertained 
and fairly regulated, and the ma. 
gistrates should be ‘empowered to 
controul the clerk of the markets, 
millers, and bakers, so as to pre- 
vent fraud, which is the only 
object of any regulation which I 
wish to propose ; but perhaps, if 
the quantity to be weighed in the 
market was declared to be not less 
than a bushel, this would meet the 
ideas of many gentlemen who now 
complain of the difficulty of the 
poor be ecoming the purchasers of 
small quantities of corn, and are 
desirous of having that quantity 
pitched in the market as a sample, 
And also, as the weight of the 
bushel of the different grain is 
fixed by the 31st Geo. III. c. 30. 
I shall add that regulation to what 
I wished to submit to the considera- 
tion of the committee. 
1b, avoirdupoise. 
Bushel of Wheat, weighing 57 
Rye 55 
Barley 49 
Beer or bigg = 42 
Oats 32 
shall be respectively oat equal 
to every standard Winch. bush. 
Wheat meal 56 
Wheat flour 55 
Rye meal 53 
Barley meal 48 
Beer or bigg meal 4.1 
Oatmeal 22 
shall be deemed equal to every such 
bushel of the unground grain where- 
of it is made, and what will not 
pass through a fourteen shillings 
cloth is to be considered as wheat 
meal. 
If, therefore, the committee are 
of opinion that the introduétion of 
the use of weight, to regulate and 
agcertain the measures of corn, is 
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likely to produce a certainty in the 
returns from the markets of corn 
in this kingdom, and by a just and 
clear statement of the relations be, 
tween the prices of wheat and flour, 
to enable us to prevent fraud, and ta 
suppiy the inhabitants of the coun. 
try, with bread at a more moderate 
rate, than it has been sold for, al- 
lowing a fair profit to the persons 
employed in the manufacturing of 
these articles, I would recom- 
mend the following resolutions, 
or such as would enable the com- 
mittee to att with certainty in 
setting the just values on flour 
and bread. 
1, That the returns shall be made 
of the corn sold from every market 
town in England, stating the quan- 
tity and weight of grain sold in 
Pain markets, 
That in striking the average 
of aw grain so sold, it shall be 
computed from the weight of such 
grain, as that is fixed by the 31st 
Geo. III. c, 30. 
3. That a certain quantity of 
the grain intended to be sold, not 
less than one Winchester bushel, shall 
be pitched in the public market, 
and the weight. of the wheat, or 
other corn, openly marked on such 
sample. 
4.That the weight of the bushel, 
and the quantity of the corn sold, 
shall be delivered, with an account 
of the price, to the clerk of the 
market, for the purpose of making 
his returns, and also to prove the 
quality of the corn, if the quantity 
sold should prove, on the delivery, 
to be of an inferior quality to the 
sample produced in the market. 
MILLERS. 
1. To keep a regular account of 
the weight of the corn delivered in 
at 
