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PROFESSOR SCHUMACHER ON THE LATE 
“ and the pound mentioned in the 8th Resolution of the former Committee upon the 
“ subject of weights and measures, agreed to by the House the 2nd June 1758, being 
“ the standard of weight, ought to be deposited in the Court of Receipt of the Exche- 
“ quer, and 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, 
“ and not to be opened but by the order and in the presence of the Chancellor of the 
“ Exchequer and the Chief Baron for the time being.” 
If this pound, intended to be deposited in the Exchequer according to the wishes 
of the Committee, might be supposed to be a different pound from that presented to 
the House, (p. 457 b.) and of course one of the two remaining of the three that were 
presented to the former Committee, we might know (provided the Resolution was 
agreed to by the House) where to look for a pound of the identical metal of the lost 
standard ; but the obvious meaning of the words seems to be, that the pound pre- 
sented to the House in the last Session (i. e. the imperial standard now lost) should 
not be kept there, because the Committee thought it safer in the custody of the Ex- 
chequer. This is the more probable, because the following 9th Resolution (p. 463 a.) 
says expressly that the standard yard mentioned in the 2nd Resolution of the former 
Committee, agreed to by the House June 2nd 1768, was at the moment when the 
last Committee formed their Resolutions “now” in the custody of the Clerk of the 
House, which is not said of the standard pound, of which mention is made imme- 
diately after the yard, and which certainly would have been added (since they are pre- 
cise in their expressions) if the pound had been at that moment really in the custody 
of the said Clerk. The Committee had probably taken it back, in order to have the 
multiples adjusted, which was not yet done, (see the 9th Resolution, where the words 
“ when the same [the multiples] are adjusted” imply that meaning : it is also ex- 
pressly said, p. 457, that Mr. Harris will adjust the multiples as soon as possible ;) 
and which could not be done without having the use of the standard ; and proposed 
by their 7th Resolution not to restore it to the Clerk of the House, but to deposit it, 
after having used it, at the Exchequer, where they meant also to transfer the yard, 
which was still in the custody of the Clerk. 
It is not stated that the House agreed to this Resolution : on the contrary, it ap- 
pears that it did not, because both yard and pound were, when Captain Kater com- 
pared them, and before that time, in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Com- 
mons, where they were originally deposited. 
25. The following Resolutions (the 8th and 9th) of the second Committee might also 
possibly be understood as referring to one of the two remaining pounds of Mr. Har- 
ris. The 8th Resolution (p. 463 a.) proposes as the most effectual means to ascer- 
tain uniformity in measures of length and weights to be used throughout the realm, 
“ To appoint certain persons at one particular office, with clerks and workmen 
“ under them, for the purpose only of sizing and adjusting, for the use of the sub- 
“ jects, all measures of length, and all weights, being parts, multiples, or certain pro- 
