122] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



out the whole interest of the 

 kingdom. 



2. After their introduction, no 

 one shall be permitted to make 

 use of other weights and mea- 

 sures. 



3. Commencing from the 1st 

 January after the year of intro- 

 duction, no claims whateverwhich 

 becoiiie the subject of legal dis- 

 pute shall be pronounced lawful ; 

 unless in the deeds, books, and 

 documents on wliich they are 

 fovmded, and which shall be 

 brought to prove their legitimacy, 

 the new system shall be used, and 

 form the groundwork of the cal- 

 culation. 



4. From the enactment in the 

 preceding articles are excepted 

 transactiona entered into abroad 

 with the subjects of other powers. 



.5. Moreover, after the 1st of 

 January, 1817, in all the scliools 

 of this kingdom, without excep- 

 tion, where arithmetic is taught, 

 elementary instruction must be 

 communicated according to this 

 established system of weights and 

 measures ; and after that time no 

 one shall be admitted into them 

 as teacher, who is not sufficiently 

 acquainted with the same to be 

 able to gi\e instruction to others. 



6. Tlie new system of weights 

 and measures for this kingdom, 

 shall have for foundation a length 

 which is the forty-millionth part 

 of a meridian -circle of the earth, 

 which passes through Paris. 



7- AH measures and weights 

 shall stand in connexion with this 

 length, and all its multiples and 

 aliquot parts shall l.e decimal. 



5. To them shall be given none 

 other but the usual Dutch names ; 

 and such, by preference, shall be 

 employed of the present weights 



and measures as come nearest to 

 them . 



9. The length mentioned in 

 art. 6, is the foundation or ele- 

 ment of all length-measure, and 

 shall bear the name of ell. 



10. The unity of all measures 

 of distance shall be the ell multi- 

 plied a thousand times. 



11. The foundation of all su- 

 perficial measure is the square of 

 the ell, or the ell square. 



12. For land measure the square 

 of a multiple of the ell by ten 

 shall form the unity of measure. 



13. The foundation of all mea- 

 sures of contents in the gre.at 

 shall be the cube of the ell. 



14. The cube of the tenth of 

 the ell shall be the unity of the 

 measure of contents foi" retail 

 articles. 



15. The foundation of weights 

 shall be the weight of a quantity 

 of purely distilled water reduced 

 to its greatest solidity, contained 

 in the cube of the tenth part of 

 the ell, and shall bear the name 

 of pound. 



16. The cube of the ten-thous- 

 andth part of the pound shall be 

 the unity for the weight of va- 

 luable wares. 



17- The direction and form of 

 the new weights and measures, 

 together with their multiples and 

 aliquot parts, as also the names 

 of every measure and weight, to- 

 gether Avith their multiples and 

 aliquot parts, in conformity to 

 what is contained in art. 8, shall 

 afterwards be fixed by us. 



The so-termed Sacred Alliance 

 entered into by the three con- 

 federate potentates was acceded 

 to on June 21st by the king of 

 the Netherlands, which act was 

 notified by a message to the States- 

 general 



