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V.— SPECIAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



Section 7. — -Troy Weights.] 



The Troy ounce snail continue to be divided into 20 pennyweights, and the 

 pennyweight into 24 grains. 



These weights shall have the following values: — 



New Troy ounce, . . = 32 grammes. 



New pennyweight, . = 1'6 gramme. 



New grain, . . . . = one 15 th of a gramme. 



It shall be lawful to regard the ratio of each of the new weights of this section, 

 to the old- weight of the same name, as being a ratio of 100 to 97 - 2, or as being 

 the ratio of 35-7 to 34-7. 



Section 8. — Coin Weights. 



It shall continue to be lawful to uso coin weights of the same amounts as may 

 lawfully be used at the time of the passing of this Bill. 



Schedule B. 

 METKIC WEIGHTS AND MEASUKES,* 



WITH THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN NEW IMPERIAL MEASURE. 



Meteic. 

 Stage, or myriametre, 

 Kilem, or kilometre, . 

 hektome, or hektometre, 

 dekam, or dekametre, 

 Metre, . . 

 decimetre, . 

 centimetre, . 

 Millimetre, . 

 Micron, . . 



I.— MEASURES OF LENGTH. 



10 kilometres 

 1000 metres, 

 100 metres, 

 10 metres, 



-r„- of a metre, 



Tffo of a metre, 



Tcroo of a metre, 



ryoooTcToo ot a metre, 



New Imperial. 



6J miles. 



5 furlongs. 



5 chains. 



2 perches or poles. 



40 inches. 



4 inches. 



i*- of an inch. 



aV of an inch. 



2-6-ioo of an inch. 



* Everything that is possible should be done to get the names of 

 metric measures to be henceforth so pronounced by English-speaking 

 people, as to become good English names. To bring this about it is 

 advisable to discourage the prevalent mistake of pronouncing kilo 

 (which in English corresponds to Milo), as if spelled killo in such 

 words as kilometre, kilogram, kilowatt ; and of pronouncing litre 

 (which should rhyme with mitre) as if it had been leetre. See note 2 

 on page 21. 



