April 1, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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kilogram shall be prepared under the authority of the 
Privy Council for Trade, verified by comparison with 
the original standards in Paris, and have the words 
“Standard Kilogram, 1871,” engraved upon it, and the 
same shall be kept in the custody of the Warden of the 
Standards. 
5. For the more convenient use of metric weights and 
measures, it shall he lawful to take the double and the 
half of all the said units, and their decimal multiples and 
•decimal parts. 
6. The said weights and measures hereby established 
shall he and are hereby denominated the standard metric 
weights and measures, as shown in the table hereto an¬ 
nexed. 
7. Copies and models of the same standard metre and 
kilogram shall he sent to the Lords Mayors of London 
and Dublin, to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and to 
all counties, shires, stewartries, ridings, divisions, cities, 
towns, liberties and places in which by law copies and 
models of the standard imperial weights and measures 
are required to be kept, and to such other places and 
persons as the President of the Committee of the Privy 
Council for Trade may from time to time direct. 
8. All judges, magistrates and other person or persons 
who now are or shall hereafter he authorized by law to 
order or provide copies of the present imperial standard 
weights and measures shall at all times hereafter have 
like power and authority in every respect to order or 
provide copies of the standard metric weights and mea¬ 
sures, and to charge the expenses thereof upon the fund 
or funds, money or moneys, that would have been liable 
in case it had been copies of imperial weights and mea¬ 
sures that had been ordered or provided. 
9. All and every the provisions and provision which 
are by law in force with respect to the inspection, verifi¬ 
cation, reverification, stamping, counterfeiting and modes 
of conviction, with the penalty or penalties relating 
thereto, of the present imperial standard weights and 
measures, shall apply to and be in force with regard to 
the standard metric weights and measures in every re¬ 
spect as if the said standard metric weights and measures 
were comprised in and designated by the imperial weights 
and measures in the Acts relating to such inspection, 
verification, reverification, stamping, counterfeiting and 
modes of conviction, and the penalty or penalties re¬ 
lating thereto as aforesaid. 
10. From and after the expiration of-years from 
the passing of this Act, the imperial and all local or 
•customary weights and measures shall be abolished, and 
every person who shall sell by any denomination of 
weights and measures other than those of the standard 
metric weights and measures, or such decimal multiples 
or decimal parts thereof as are authorized by this Act, 
shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 
the sum of 40a-. for every such sale. 
11. F 'rom and after the expiration of- years after 
the passing of this Act, if any person or persons shall 
print, or if the clerk of any market or other person shall 
make any return, price list, price current, or any journal 
or other paper containing price list or price current in 
which the denomination of weights and measures quoted 
or referred to shall denote or imply a greater or less 
weight or measure than is denoted or implied by the 
same denomination of the metric weights and measures 
under and according to the provisions of this Act, such 
person or persons or clerk of the market shall forfeit and 
pay any sum not exceeding 10s. for every copy of every 
such return, price list, price current, journal, or other 
paper which he or they shall publish. 
12. As soon as conveniently may be after the passing 
of this Act, accurate tables shall be prepared and pub¬ 
lished, under the authority of the Committee of Privy 
Council for Trade, showing the proportions between the 
imperial weights and measures hei’etofore in use and the 
standard metric weights and measures hereby esta¬ 
blished, with such other conversions of weights and 
measures as the said Committee of the Privy Council for 
Trade may deem necessary, and after the publication of 
such tables all future payments to be made shall be re¬ 
gulated according to such tables. 
13. And whereas the weights and measures by which 
the rates and. duties of the customs and excise and other 
her Majesty’s revenue have been heretofore collected are 
different from the metric weights and measures directed 
by this Act to be used: It is hereby enacted, that so 
soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this 
Act, accurate tables shail be prepared and published 
under the direction of the said Committee of the Privy 
Council for Trade, in order that the several rates and 
duties of customs and excise and other her Majesty’s 
revenue may be adjusted and made payable according to 
the respective quantities of the standard metric weights 
and measures directed by this Act to be used, and "that 
on the expiration of - years after the passing of 
this Act the several rates and* duties thereafter to be col¬ 
lected by any of the officers of her Majesty’s customs or 
excise or other her Majesty’s revenues shall be collected 
and taken according to the calculations in the tables to 
be prepared as aforesaid. 
14. From and after the passing of this Act, and until 
the use of the metric weights and measures shall be 
made compulsory, the said metric weights and measures 
shall be deemed and taken to be legal weights and mea¬ 
sures, and as such may be used for all purposes whatso¬ 
ever. 
15. As soon as conveniently may be after the passing 
of this Act, the metric standards to be provided under 
this Act shall be placed in the custody of the Warden of 
the Standards, and the Committee of the Privy Council 
for Trade shall cause the metric weights and measures 
in use under the present Act to be verified and stamped 
in the same manner as the imperial weights and mea¬ 
sures are now required to be. 
16. From and after the passing of this Act the “ Me¬ 
tric Weights and Measures Act, 1864,” shall be and is 
hereby repealed. 
Table of Standard Metric Weights and Measures. 
Measures of Length. 
Systematic Names. 
Metres. 
Value. 
Myriametre . 
# 
10,000 
Ten thousand metres. 
Kilometre 
1,000 
One thousand metres. 
Hectometre . 
100 
One hundred metres. 
Dekametre . 
10 
Ten metres. 
Metre . . . 
• 
1 
Unit of measure of 
length. 
Decimetre . 
# 
•1 
The tenth of a metre. 
Centimetre . 
• 
•01 
The hundredth of a 
metre. 
Millimetre . 
*001 The thousandth of a 
metre. 
Measure of Surface. 
Square Metres. 
Hectare . . 
• 
10,000 
One hundred ares, ten 
thousand square 
metres. 
Are . . . 
• 
100 
Unit of measure of sur¬ 
face. 
Centiare . 
• 
1 One hundredth of th'e 
are. 
Measure of Capacity. 
Cubic Decimetres. 
Kilolitre . . 
# 
1,000 
One thousand litres. 
Hectolitre 
100 
One hundred litres. 
Dekalitre 
10 
Ten litres. 
Litre . . 
• 
1 
Unit of measure of 
capacity. 
Decilitre . . 
•1 
The tenth of a litre. 
Centilitre 
• 
•01 
The hundredth of a 
litre. 
