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ME. AIET’S ACCOLTsT OF THE COXSTEECTIOX OF 
other bars, or for other scientific purposes in which reference to the Standard may soon 
be required. We will advert shortly to the proposed places of deposit of the Standards 
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. 
Places of Lejposit of the Standards. 
“ 32. It appears from the copy of the Bill of 1758, to which reference has been made, 
that the custody of the Standards by the Clerk of the House of Commons, which con- 
tinued to the time of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, was a matter ol 
accident. It is recited in that Bill that the bar and the metallic weight, which it is 
proposed to adopt as legal standards (and which are described with sufiicient accuracy 
to ensure their identity with the late Imperial Standards), together with their duplicates, 
are in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons ; and it proposes to enact that 
“ the said standard Troy pound and the said standard yard shall on or before the 9th 
September 1765 be deposited and for ever remain in the Court of the Eeceipt of the 
Exchequer, and be there safely kept under the seals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
and of the Chief Baron, and the Seal of Office of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, 
which seals shall not at any time be opened but by the order and in the personal pre- 
sence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Baron for the time being, and 
then for the purposes only of guarding the same from all damage or injury, or of 
inspecting, examining, and comparing the copies and models hereinafter described, &c.” 
The Bill afterwards provides for the appointment of four commissioners, with clerks, 
workmen, &c., and for the establishment of a proper office ; and that “ as soon as the 
said office shall be fixed and established, the said copies of the said standard yard and 
the said standard Troy pound, and the said models of parts and multiples, &c., shall be 
delivered to the said commissioners by the Clerk of the House of Commons, &c., and 
that one set shall be kept in the office under the seal of the Chief Baron of the Exche- 
quer and the seals of the commissioners, and the other set shall be used for the piu'pose 
of sizing and adjusting, &c.” It appears that this subject had engaged the attention of 
the House of Commons in 1758 and 1759, and that the BiU above mentioned was intro- 
duced by Lord Carysfort in 1760, and had passed through committee; but in the press- 
ure of business attending the death of George II., and the succession of George III., 
and the dissolution of Parliament soon following, it was not carried through all its 
stages. There appears, however, to be no doubt that the intention of the Committee of 
the House of Commons may be sufficiently gathered from the language of the Bill as 
cited above. 
“33, Remarking this probable intention of the Legislatm-e in the year 1760, and 
remarking also the evident propriety of placing the National Standards under the care 
of the Executive, we recommend that the Parliamentary Standards of One Yard and 
Oiie Pound be deposited in the office of the Exchequer, there to be preserved under 
such regulations as to Parliament may appear fitting. 
“ 34. In selecting places for the preservation of the authentic Copies of the Parlia- 
mentary Standards, we have been guided by a consideration of the general fitness of 
