16 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 



APPENDIX. 



DRAFT OF A BILL TO SIMPLIFY THE RELATIONS 

 BETWEEN BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



Submitted by G. Johnstone Stoney, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. 



Wheeeas it is lawful to use either imperial or metric weights and 

 measures within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 

 for the purpose of determining the quantities of commodities to be 

 bought and sold ; 



And whereas it is expedient to simplify the relations in which the 

 weights and measures stand to one another, that may lawfully be so 

 used ; 



Be it therefore enacted that on and after the first day of January, 

 190 — , the imperial weights and measures shall cease to be derived 

 from the standard yard and standard pound deposited with the Board 

 of Trade, and shall on and after the aforesaid date be derived from the 

 iridio-platinum linear standard metre and iridio-platinum standard 

 kilogram deposited with the Board of Trade and numbered 16 and 18 

 respectively : in the manner set forth in Schedule A attached to this 

 Bill, which shall be read as part of this Bill ; in which are set forth the 

 various weights and measures of the imperial system which, with 

 their multiples and aliquot parts, may lawfully be used after the said 

 first day of January, 190 — ; and in which are also set forth their 

 equivalents in metric measure, and the ratios which may lawfully be 

 used in comparing the imperial weights arid measures at present in 

 use, which are hereinafter called the old imperial weights and 

 measures, with those that will take their place under the provisions of 

 this Bill, which are hereinafter called the new imperial weights and 

 measures. 



In Schedule B attached to this Bill and which shall be read as part 

 of this Bill, are set forth the metric weights and measures which 

 with their multiples and aliquot parts may also lawfully be used in 

 determining the quantities of commodities to be bought or sold, and 

 their equivalents in the new imperial measures. 



