MEA 



Inches. 



144 



1,206 



39,204 



1,568,160 



6,272,640 



Acre. 

 1 



CUBIC MEASURE. 



1728 Cubic Inches make .... 



H 



27 



40 



50 



108 



128 



Feet 



of Rough Timber 

 of Hewn do. . 



HEAPED MEASURES. 



Cubic Foot. 

 Yard. 



1 Load. 



1 Stack of Wood. 

 1 Cord. 



Our market-gardeners, and retailers 

 of fruit, potatoes, &c., generally vend 

 their commodities as if the Act of Par- 

 liament, 5 and 6 Will. IV. c. 63, did 

 not exist. By this statute selling by 

 heaped measure is forbidden under a 

 penalty of not more than 40s. for every 

 such sale. Section 8 provides that, as 

 some articles heretofore sold by heaped 

 measure are incapable of being strick- 

 en, and may not inconveniently be sold 

 by weight, it is enacted, that all such 

 articles may henceforth be sold by a 

 bushel-measure, corresponding in shape 

 with the bushel prescribed by the 5 



Geo. IV. c. 74, for the sale of heaped 

 measure, or by any multiple or aliquot 

 part thereof, filled in all parts as nearly 

 to the level of the brim as the size and 

 shape of the articles will admit; but 

 nothing herein shall prevent the said 

 by weight of any article heretofore sold 

 by heaped measure. The 5 Geo. IV. 

 c. 74, thus referred to, enacts, by sec- 

 tion 7, that for potatoes, fruit, etc., the 

 bushel shall be made round, with a 

 plain and even bottom, and being nine- 

 teen inches and a half from outside to 

 outside, and capable of containing 80 Ib. 

 weight of water. 



WOOD FUEL. 



English Measure. Wood-fuel is 

 assized into shids, billets, faggots, fall- 

 wood, and cord-wood. A shid is of 

 fall-wood and cord-wood. 



A shid is to be four feet long, and, 

 according as they are marked and 

 notched, their proportion must be in 

 the girth viz., if they have but one 

 notch they must be sixteen inches in 

 the girth ; if two notches, twenty-three 

 inches ; if three notches, twenty-eight 

 inches ; if four notches, thirty-three 

 inches ; and if five notches, thirty-eight 

 inches about. 



Billets are to be three feet long, of 

 which there should be three sorts- 

 namely, a single cask, and a cask of 



twOi The first is seven inches, the 

 second ten inches, and the third four- 

 teen inches about. They are sold by 

 the hundred of five score. 



Fagyots are to be three feet long, 

 and, at the band, of twenty-four inches 

 about, besides the knot ; of such fag- 

 gots fifty go to the load. 



Bavins and Spray -wood are sold by 

 the hundred, which are accounted a 

 load; Cord-wdod is the bigger sort of 

 fire-wood ; and it is measured by a cord 

 or line, whereof there ate two measures 

 that of fourteen feet in length, three 

 1-'t in breadth, and three feet in height; 

 the other is eight feet in length, four 

 feet in height, and four feet in breadth. 



