The Standard fbr heaped Measure, for such things as are commonly sold by heaped measure, such as coal, eulm, lime, fish, potatoes, fruit., &e., shall be "the aforesaid bushel, con taining eighty pounds of water, as aforesaid, the same being made round with a plane and even bottom, and being 191 inches from outside to outside ;" and goods thus sold by heaped measure shall be heaped "in the form of a cone, such cone to be of the height of at least six inches, the outside of the bushel to be the extremity of the base of such cone ;" three such bushels shall be a sack, and twelve such sacks shall be a chaldron.
Stricken Measure.—The last mentioned goods may be sold either by the heaped measure, or by the standard weight as before mentioned ; but all other kinds of goods not usually sold by heaped measure, which may be sold or agreed for by measure, the same standard measure Anil be used ; but it shall not be heaped, but stricken with a round stick or roller, straight, and of the sante diameter from end to end.
N.B.—Copies and nu alels of the standard of length, weight, and measure, are to be made and verified under the direction of the Treasury, and every county to be supplied with them for reference whenever required ; and after the first of May, IS25, all contracts for sale, &c., by weight or measure, shall relate to the standard, unless the contrary is specified. Existing weights and measures may be used, being marked so as to show the proportion they have to the standard measures and weights. Tables of equa•ization of the weights to be made by the Treasury ; tables, also, for the customs and excise, by which the duties will be altered ao as to make them equal to what they are at present, in consequence of the alterations in the weights and tneaui es. See WEIGHTS.
The following extracts from the bill for ascertaining and establishing uniformity of weights and measures will explain this subject fully :—" Whereas it is necessary, for the security of commerce, and for the good of the community, that weights and measures should be just and uniform; and whereas, not withstanding it is provided by the great charter, that there shall be but one measure and one weight throughout the realm ; and, by the treaty of union between England and Scotland, that the same weights and measures should be used throughout Great Britain as were then established in Eng land ; ? et different weights and measures, some larger and some less, are still in use in various places throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; and the true measure of the present standard is not verily known, which is the cause of great and of manifest frauds ; for the remedy and prevention of evils for the future, and to the end that certain standards of weights and measures should be established throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, " Be it therefore enacted, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this ',resent parliament assembled, and 1)% the authority of the same, that a cubic inch of distilled water in a vacuum, weighed by brass weights, also in a vacuum, at the temperature of 62" of Fahrenheit's thermo meter, is equal to two hundred and fifty-two grains and seven hundred and twenty-four thousandth parts of a grain.
"And he it further enacted, that the standard measure of capacity, as well fin liquid as fur dry goods not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon containing ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air, at the tern pe ratu re of 6'2°t&Fahrenheit's t hermot n et er, the barometer being at thirty inches, to be used as well for wine, beer, ale, spirits, and all sorts of liquids, as for dry goods not measured by heaped measure ; and eight such gallons shall be a bushel, and eight such bushels a quarter—of' corn, or other dry goods not measured by heaped measure.
" And be it further enacted, that the standard measure of capacity for coals, culm, lime, fish, potatoes, or fruit, and all other goods and things commonly sold by heaped measure, shall be the atbresaidbushel, containing eighty pounds avoir dupois of water as aforesaid, the same being made round with a plane and even bottom, and being nineteen and a half inches front outside to outside of such standard measure as al unsaid.
" And be it further enacted, that all contracts, bargains, sales, and dealings, which shall be made or had within any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ffir any work to be done, or for any goods, wares, merchan dise, or other thing to be sold, delivered, done, or agreed for, by weight or measure, where no special agreement shall be made to the contrary, shall be deemed, taken, and construed, to be made and had according to the weights and standard measures ascertained by this act ; and in all cases where any special agreement shall be made, with reference to any weight or measure established by any local custom, the ratio or pro portion which every such local weight or measure shall bear to any of the said standard weights or measures, shall be expressly declared and specified in such agreement, or other ise such agreement shall be null and void.