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and accountants in India can diride bj 16 as readilj as English - 
men bj 12. There are also 16 Annas to the Rape^ which makes 
the number conrenient. With regard to the ni^multiples of the 
" seer," a coincidence with the smaller English Weights, is not of 
much consequence in commerce. A? regards the mmliiplet, I 
would propose a "Mun"or maund Weight of 50 " seers," which 
would be exactly the cwt of lOOlbs., which will no doubt, be soon 
established in England, whaterer ma j be the other decimal multi- 
ples and sub-multiples.* 
The next point to be considered, is a standard for the Mea- 
sure of Capacity. It will be observed firom what has been stated 
in paras. 16 and 17, that the GoTemmentof India has neither in 
Act VIL of 1833, nor in the " Table" set forth by them, made any 
allusion to Measure of Capacity, although it is a matter of more im- 
portance than the Weights, seeing that by far the greater portion 
of the domestic transactions in India are in grain. The Calcutta 
Chamber of Commerce, when on the 19th of May, 1836, they resolr. 
ed to adopt the WeigkU of the Goremment, urged the introduction 
of the Imperial gallon for Liquidt, and proposed that new Ueasures 
of capacity for grain, should be regulated by the Weights, but they 
did not show how this was to be done : nor does it seem at all ne- 
cessary to make a distinction between " Dry" and " liquid'' Mea- 
sures. The GoTcmment declined to act on the recommendation 
of the Chamber, and whaterer might hare been contemplated by 
Act Til. of 1833, nothing has erer been announced by way of de- 
fining the capacities of the Grain Measures in Bengal. The only 
Measures made up (at the Mint) by autibority of the Govemment, 
are the Imperial gallon and its sub-multiples, for use in the Medical 
and Victnalling departments ; and it seems that the Court of Direc- 
tors in their Despatch of 17th July, 1833, expected the gene- 
« It is stated in the Beporf, dated 1854, of tbe CcaununoBcn a|ipouited to s»- 
peiiiitend the cflsstraclKm of thenevStaiidardi, ' Befening to chiplen [named] 
*' of the Report of ISil, and the Te«aniBeiid«ti(ms bnsed thereon, tendi^ to di- 
** lunub the confooon betvoen Af o iidnp ois we^t and Troj weight, and tn ba- 
•< nish the Stone of 141bB, and the Hnndred weight of 112[b», «e hnre to report 
that we adopt in their ntaoat extent the whole of thoae recommcadations. * 
The Committeeof 1811 recomcnded a<'ccntaer"of lOOIbs., andn *' ftone" oflOIbs. 
