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lawful, be it now enacted that, notwithstanding anything 

 in that or any previously existing statute, the Metric 

 Weights and Measures shall become the standard Imperial 

 Weights and Measures, and shall be used in all dealings 

 whatsoever. And all other dealings by other weights 

 or measures shall be null and void. And for measure- 

 ments of temperature the " celcius " or "centigrade" 

 thermometer shall be the only official and authoritative 

 one. But nothing in this enactment shall affect " angular," 

 " circular," or " electric " measures. 



2. When or wherever, in any statute relating to the sale 

 of bread or coal, a pound is mentioned it shall be taken 

 to be equivalent to 2 kg.; a hundred-weight to 50 kg.; 

 and the ton to 1000 kg. 



3. When or wherever, in any statute relating to cabs, 

 Hackney carriages, or locomotives on highways, a mile is 

 mentioned it shall be taken in relation to distances and 

 speeds to be equivalent to 1'50 km., and all multiples or 

 sub-multiples of a mile, for the same purposes, shall be 

 reckoned on that basis. 



4. County Councils shall remark and refix all mile- 

 stones and mileposts on main roads within their districts 

 at intervals of kilometres, and shall supply and fix all 

 necessary extra kilostones and kiloposts ; and the cost of 

 such work shall be borne by a county rate, for which 

 each County Council shall have power to raise a loan. 

 And the officer or officers for the time being of the 

 division of Ordnance Survey in which each county lies 

 shall supply all information required by the County 

 Surveyor as to distances from and to adjacent villages 

 towns, or cities in kilometres and decimals thereof. 



