 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 Seiten
...measure, if lost. § 4. That the standard brass weight of one pound troy weight, made in the year 1758, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, shall be declared to be the original and genuine standard measure of weight, and such brass weight... | |
 | Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - 1827 - 336 Seiten
...The standard of weight is declared to be " the brass weight of one pound troy, made in the year 1758, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, which is to be denominated the Imperial Standard Troy Pound ; and the 5760th part of this pound is... | |
 | Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 602 Seiten
...the 1st day of May 1825, the standard brass weight of one pound troy weight, made in the year 1758, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be the original and genuine standard measure of weight,... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - 1830 - 978 Seiten
...Weights and Measures." After providing that(w) the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...figures, " standard yard, 1760," are engraved, shall be the original and genuine standard of that measure of length or lineal extension called a yard ; and... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 Seiten
...foot, and thirty-six whereof make a yard. The standard yard is "that distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...words and figures ' Standard yard, 1760' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine standard of the measure of length called a yard; and, as the expansibility... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 630 Seiten
...foot, and thirty-six whereof make a yard. The standard yard is "that distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass...commons, whereon the words and figures ' Standard yard, 17CO' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine standard of the measure of length called a... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 Seiten
...whereof make a yard. The standard yard is " that distance between the centres of the two points HI the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the...words and figures ' Standard yard, 1760' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine standard of the measure of length called a yard; and, as the expansibility... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 Seiten
...Commissioners. § 4. Enacts, That the standard brass weight of 1 pound Troy, made in the year 1758, and now in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, shall be the unit or only standard of weight, from which all other weights shall be derived : That... | |
 | John Bennett (Engineer) - 1833 - 488 Seiten
...it is enacted, That from the 1st of May, 1825, the straight line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, whereon " Standard Yard, 1760," is engraved, shall be the original and genuine Standard Yard ; and... | |
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May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass Rod, now in the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the Words and Figures 
