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reasonably expected that the pcoplo of the interior, in their traflic 
with such Towns and CaHtonments, will gradually acquire a know- 
lege of, and a convenience in conforming to, the Standards ; so that 
in a further period of time, the local operation of the law may be 
extended. As regards the Towns and Cantonments specified, there 
will be time beforehand for the people to make themselves acquaint- 
ed with the new standards, to prepare new sets of Weights and Mea- 
sures, and arrange their prices accordingly. During this period also, 
every assistance and encoura<jement should be given by the officers 
of Government to those who are likely to be inconvenienced by the 
measure. " Suavit^r in modo, fortitcr in re." 
All Government transactions, accounts, tariffs, ice, should be in 
terms of the new System, and in every purchase made by the Public 
Departments, their own Standard Weights and Measures should 
be employed. This would supersede the attempts (always futile) 
to specify on every occasion, in equivalent terms of the authorised 
standard, the ever varying and uncertain values of the Native 
"Weights and Measures. For general purposes, and as a guide to 
the Departmental officers, Tables of equaliz.ilion should be prepar- 
for each District, showing the average results of experiments made 
to determine the value of the local Weights and Measures. Such 
Tables though useful, will not of course be conclusive in every 
case of purchase, inasmuch as Weights and Measures differ in 
different villages, and the Tables can only give the result of the 
average of the District. Such Tables have been lately compiled 
in the Presidency of Madras. 
In order to prepare the people for the reception of the new 
Standards, not only should they be enforced in the chief Towns, 
and used in all Government transactions, but they should be ex- 
plained in all the Government schools- verTiacular tracts on the 
subject should be freely distributed, models should be kept in store 
in all public offices (both for ascertaining the true equivalents of 
the Native Weights and Measures, and to enable those who wish 
to take copies), and it should be constantly and publicly notified 
that the operation of the Act would be eventually extended to every 
bazaar in the country. The Chambers of Commerce, and the Rail- 
ways and other Companies, should be urged to co-operate, even in 
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