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UNIFORMITY OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
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_ recommend the universal adoption of a uniform system of weights and mea- 
_ sures founded on the Metric Decimal System.” The Congress expressed the 
wish that the knowledge of the same be diffused as much as possible, and with 
a view to that object it recommended the teaching of the system in all primary 
schools, the use of publications adapted to the intelligence of the greatest 
number, and the adoption of all the means of instruction proposed in the 
_ report of M. Jacobi adopted by the Conference held in Paris in June 1867. 
_ Some idea of the universality which the Metric System has already attained, 
may be found from the fact that already as many as thirteen countries, 
including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the Roman States, Spain, 
Portugal, Greece, Mexico, Chili, Brazil, New Grenada, and other South Ame- 
rican Republics, with an aggregate population of upwards of 146,000,000, 
__ have established one uniform Decimal System founded on the Metre. 
more countries, with an aggregate population of 68,000,000, have also 
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adopted parts of the same; whilst this country and the United States, having 
together 60,000,000, have introduced the same in a permissive manner. 
And in India the Government of the Bengal Presidency recommended the 
adoption of the Metric System as the best means for introducing simplicity 
and unity in the Weights and Measures of that yast Empire. 
The population of and trade with the countries which use the Metric 
System of Weights and Measures, is as follows :— 
The amount of trade being exracted from the annual accounts of the Board 
of Trade for 1866. 
Countries where the Metric System is obligatory. 
Real Value 
Countries. of Imports. 
Population. 
40,500,000] £37,000,000 
5,000,000 7,900,000 
23,000,000 11,800,000 
24,000,000 3,800,000 
700,000 
21,000,000 10,000,000 
8,000,000 3,200,000 
1,200,000 g00,000 
8,200,000 300,000) 
1,600,000 2,900,000 
8,000,000 7,200,000 
I 2,200,000 1,500,000 
Other South American Republics} 3,000,000 6,500,000 
146,400,000] £93,000,000 
Declared value 
of Exports of 
British, Foreign, 
and Colonial 
Merchandise. 
Total Trade. 
£26,600,000 
6,800,000 
16,800,000 
6,900,000 
6,800,000 
2,600,000 
900,000 
1,300,000 
1,900,000 
7,300,000 
3,000,000 
5,000,000 
£85,900,000 
£63,600,000 
14,700,000 
28,600,000 
10,700,000 
16,800,000 
5,800,000 
1,800,c00 
1,600,000 
4,800,000 
14,520,000 
4,500,000 
II,500,000 
£178,900,000 
Pas aa dies diols osc. da.5 cian 2,500,000 
1,400,000} ° 
18,000,000 
4,500,000 
2,200,000 
3,000,000 
37,000,000 
£18,800,000 
2,300,000 
1,300,000 
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Ame e eet meee eee eeeesesesenes 
68,600,000] £22,400,000 
£24,800,000 
2,100,000 
1,000,000 
£27,900,000 
£43,600,000 
4,400,000 
2,300,000 
£50,300,000 
