the Sul'ject of PFeighis and Measures. 181 



m 0-1 ooo 1 ^C Standard {rallon ^ i i ^n ooi ^ /■ 



The 2y l-2S2d part V o-i i- • i ^and l,40-231stof 



f . ' J 2/1 cubic inches, f ,, ^ 



or the custoniarv<C /» ir/^coc c ^\ > the customarv 



, ,, •' jor 0-15Sfe2Sy of the £ . ,, •' 



ale eraUon. / i • r ^ \ vvme gallon. 



° ^ cubic toot. J ° 



*' That certain officers lie appointed, one of them at least be- 

 ing competently acquainted with mechanical and matliematical 

 science^ under the direction of the Lords Commissioners of His 

 Majesty's Treasury, to take care of the standards deposited in the 

 Exchequer, and to ascertain, size, and mark, withm the pre- 

 scribed limits of temperature, all new measures of weight and 

 capacity, which are in future to be employed out of the limits of 

 the jurisdiction of the cities of London and Westminster, and of 

 the Founders'-hall charter. That since some irregularity will 

 inevitably attend tlie sizing and stamping of weights and mea- 

 sures of capacity in county towns, all such, intended for use in 

 the country, wherever made, shall be tried and marked at the 

 above-mentioned office : and that the expenses of such office be, 

 at least in part, provided for by certain small sums payable upon 

 the assizing of measures and v,-eights, and by the amount of li- 

 censes to be granted to the makers of such measures and 

 weights. 



" Tliat it be allowable for yard-wands and carpenters' two feet 

 rules, to be tried and adjusted by the measures deposited in the 

 county towns and boroughs, agreeably to methods prescribed by 

 the Act. 



" That after tlie new standards are construcicd, all the old 

 weights and measures at the Exchequer shall be deposited in a 

 separate apartment, safely locked up, and never in future be taken 

 out but in the presence of some high officer of Kis Majesty's Go- 

 vernment, or by his express direction for some sjiecilied object. 

 And that it be recommended that the measures now deposited at 

 Guildhall, arc. be also locked up, to make way for the new stan- 

 dards. 



" That, in future, all new weigh Ls and measures be marked 

 ^vith the naihc :uid abode of the maker, tlie initials of the ex- 

 aminer at the proper office, and the temperature in which they 

 were adjusted. 



" That all heaped measures be abolished, and, if it be found 

 necessary, new measures be substituted instead of them. 



" That the use of old and of new measures (where they differ) 

 lie optional for twelve months, or some other fixed time, after the 

 passing of the Act. That from the end of that period all plead- 

 ings in actions and suits must express the size, quantity, or value 

 of tlnug";, in terms conformable to the new measures. 



" That after two years it shall 1k> penal to charge a weight or 

 mca'-urc for any commodity, which docs not agree with the stan- 



M 3 dards 



