For ascertain

payable in

Grain or Malt, &c. in Scot

land.

ties, Cities, Towns or Places respectively; and such Inquisitions, when taken, shall be transmitted by the respective Clerks of the Peace of the same Counties respectively, or by the Mayor, Bailiff or other Head Officer of every such City, Town or Place (being a County of itself), into His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer at Westminster and Dublin respectively, and shall there be enrolled of Record, and shall and may be given in Evidence in any Action or Suit at Law or in Equity; and the Amount so to be ascertained shall be the Rule of Payment in regard to all such Contracts, Rents, Tolls or Rates in all Time coming; and the Costs and Charges of such Inquisitions, and the Enrolments thereof, shall be paid and defrayed in England out of the general Rate or Stock of every such County, Riding, Division, City, Town or Place (being a County of itself), and in Ireland by Presentments of the several Grand Juries.

XVIII. And for the Purpose of ascertaining and fixing the ing Rents, &c. Payments to be made of all Stipends, Feu Duties, Rents, Tolls, Customs, Casualties and other Demands whatsoever, payable in Grain, Malt or Meal, or any other Commodity or Thing in that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, or in any Place or District of the same; Be it enacted, That the Sheriff Depute or Sheriff Substitute in each Shire, and the Stewart Depute or Stewart Substitute in each Stewartry, within Scotland, shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the Expiration of Six Calendar Months from and after the passing of this Act, summon and impannel a Jury of the same Number, and with the same Qualifications, which are required in the Jury who strike the Fiar Prices of Grain within the same Shire or Stewartry, to assemble at such Place or Places as he shall find convenient; which Jury shall inquire into and ascertain the Amount, according to the Standards by this Act established, of all such Stipends, Feu Duties, Rents, Tolls, Customs, Casualties and other Demands whatsoever, payable in Grain, Malt, Meal or any other Commodity or Thing, according to the Weights and Measures heretofore in Use within the same Shires or Stewartries; and such Inquisitions, when taken, shall be transmitted by the respective Sheriff Clerks or Stewart Clerks of such Shires or Stewartries, into His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Edinburgh, and shall there be enrolled of Record, and shall and may be given in Evidence in any Action or Suit at Law or in Equity; and the Amount so to be ascertained shall, when converted into the Standard Weights and Measures, be the Rule of Payment in regard to all such Stipends, Feu Duties, Rents, Tolls, Customs, Casualties and other Demands whatsoever, in all Time coming; and the Costs and Charges of such Inquisitions, and the Enrolment thereof, shall be assessed and levied, paid and defrayed by every such Shire or Stewartry, in Manner as is hereinbefore directed in regard to the Assessment for the Models of the Weights and Measures to be purchased for the same Shire or Stewartry.

Costs thereof how defrayed.

Tables of

Equalization to

be made and

constructed un

der the Authority of the Treasury.

XIX. And be it further enacted, That as soon as conveniently may be after such Inquisitions shall have been made and enrolled in England, Ireland and Scotland respectively, accurate Tables shall be prepared and published under the Authority of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, showing the

Proportions

Proportions between the Weights and Measures heretofore in Use, as mentioned in such Inquisitions, and the Weights and Measures hereby established, with such other Conversions of Weights or Measures as the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury may deem to be necessary; and after the Publication of such Tables, all future Payments to be made shall be regulated according to such Tables.

Tables to be constructed for

XX. And Whereas the Weights and Measures by which the Rates and Duties of the Customs and Excise, and other His Majesty's Revenue, have been heretofore collected, are differ'ent from the Weights and Measures of the same Denominations directed by this Act to be universally used: And Whereas the Alteration of such Weights and Measures may, without due Care had therein, greatly affect His Majesty's Revenue and tend to the diminishing of the same:' For the Prevention thereof, Be it therefore enacted, That so soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, accurate Tables shall be prepared and published under the Direction of the said Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, in order that the several Rates and Duties of Customs and Excise, and other His and Excise, &c. Majesty's Revenue, may be adjusted and made payable according to the respective Quantities of the legal Standards directed by this Act to be universally used; and that from and after the said First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and the Publication of such' Tables, the several Rates and Duties thereafter to be collected by any of the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or other His Majesty's Revenue, shall be collected and taken according to the Calculations in the Tables to be prepared as aforesaid.

XXI. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers, Rules and Regulations in force, and contained in the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, specified and set forth, for the ascertaining, examining, seizing, breaking and destroying any Weights, Balances or Measures, shall be applied and put in Execution in Great Britain for the ascertaining and examining, and for the seizing, breaking and destroying of any Weights or Measures not conformable to the Standard Weights and Measures ascertained and authorized by this Act, and for the Punishment of any Person or Persons having any defective Weight or Measure, not conformable to the said Standard Weights and Measures; that is to say, in an Act made in the Parliament of Great Britain,

the Collection of the Customs

Regulations and Penalties of British Acts,

viz.

in the Twenty ninth Year of King George the Second, intituled 29 G. 2. c. 25. An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster, and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to prevent Nuisances and other Offences within the said City and Liber

ty; and in an Act made in the Thirty first Year of the Reign of 31 G.2. c. 17. King George the Second, for explaining, amending and rendering more effectual the said recited Act of the Twenty ninth Year; and in an Act made in the Parliament of Great Britain, in the

Thirty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George 35 G.3. c.102. the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Prevention of the Use of defective Weights, and of false and unequal Balances; and in an Act made in the Parliament of Great Britain, in the

Thirty

55 G.3. c.43.

37 G. 3. c. 143. Thirty seventh Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, for explaining and amending the said recited Act of the said Thirty fifth Year, and as the said recited Act of the said Thirty fifth Year is amended by the said Act of the said Thirty seventh Year; and in an Act made in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Prevention of the Use of false and deficient Measures; and all the Powers, Rules, Regulations, Provisions, Penalties and Forshall be applied feitures in the said several Acts contained, shall be applied and put in execution as if the Weights or Measures ascertained by this Act had been specified in the said recited Acts respectively, and as if all such Powers, Rules, Regulations, Provisions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and Modes of Recovery thereof, were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, except only so far as the said recited Acts or any of them, or any Part thereof, are expressly repealed or altered by this Act, or any other Act or Acts.

to this Act.

Regulations and Penalties of the following Acts, viz.

4. Ann. (I.)

11 G.2. (I.)

25 G.2. (I.)

XXII. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers, Rules and Regulations in force, and contained in the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, specified and set forth, passed in the Parliament of Ireland, shall be applied and put in Execution in Ireland, for the ascertaining and examining, and for the seizing, breaking and destroying of any Weights or Measures not conformable to the Standard Weights and Measures ascertained and authorized by this Act, and for the Punishment of any Person or Persons having any defective Weight or Measure, or any Weight or Measure not conformable to the said Standard Weights and Measures, and for the carrying into Effect the several Provisions of the said recited Acts with Reference to the said Standard Weights and Measures; that is to say, in an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, for regulating the Weights used in Ireland; and in an Act made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for the buying and selling all Sorts of Corn and Meal, and other Things in the said Act mentioned, by Weight; and in an Act made in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for buying and selling all Sorts of Corn and Meal, and other Things therein mentioned, by Weight, and for the more effectual preventing the Frauds committed in the buying and selling thereof; and in an Act made in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for establishing Market Juries in Cities, and which said last mentioned Act was by an Act made in the Twenty eighth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign extended to all Counties of Towns and Corporate Towns in Ireland; and all the Powers, Rules and Regulations, Provisions, Penalties and Forfeitures in the said several Acts conshall be applied tained, shall be applied and put in Execution, as if the Weights or Measures ascertained by this Act had been specified in the said recited Acts respectively, and as if such Powers, Rules, Regulations, Provisions, Penalties and Forfeitures, and the Modes of Recovery thereof, were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, except only so far as the said recited Acts or any of them, or any Part thereof, are expressly repealed or altered by this Act, or any other Act or Acts.

27 G.3. (I.)

28 G.3. (I.)

to this Act.

XXII. And

"Sta

Ordinances or

XXIII. And be it further enacted, That the several Statutes, So much of Ordinances and Acts, and Parts of the several Statutes, Ordi- former Statutes, nances and Acts hereinafter mentioned and specified, so far as Acts, as relate the same relate to the ascertaining or establishing any Standards to establishing of Weights and Measures, or to the establishing or recognizing Weights or certain Differences between Weights and Measures of the same Measures, reDenomination, shall, from and after the First Day of May One pealed, viz. thousand eight hundred and twenty five, be repealed; that is to say, certain ancient Statutes or Ordinances made previous to the Reign of King Edward the Third, but being of uncertain Date, intituled or known by the Names or Descriptions following: "Assisa Panis et Cervisia," or " The Assize of Bread and Ale;" Statutes of un“Statutum de Pistoribus, et cetera," or " Statute concerning Bakers, certain Date. et cetera ;"" Assisa de Ponderibus et Mensuris," or "Tractatus de Ponderibus," or "Compositio de Ponderibus," or " Assize of Weights and Measures ; "Statutum de Admensuratione Terræ," or tute for the measuring of Land;" "Compositio Ulnarum et Perticarum ;" and also so much of a Statute made in the Fourteenth 14 E.3. st. 1. Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, as relates to the c.12. making of Bushels and Weights, and sending the same into every Country; and also so much of the said last mentioned Statute as directs that the Sack of Wool ought to contain Twenty six Stones, and every Stone Fourteen Pounds; and also so much of a Statute made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the said 18 E.3. st.2. King Edward the Third, as relates to Commissioners to assay Weights and Measures; and also so much of a Statute made in the Parliament summoned at Westminster on the Feast of Saint Hilary, in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of the said King 25 E.3. st.5. Edward the Third, as relates to Auncel Weight, and the Weight c.9, 10. of the Sack of Wool, and as relates to the Bushel, Half Bushel, Peck, Gallon, Pottle and Quart, and to the Quarter and Measure of Corn; and also so much of the Statute or Ordinance of the Staples, made in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of the 27 E.3. st.2. said King Edward the Third, as relates to the Uniformity of c.10. Weights and Measures throughout the Realm; and also so much

c. 4.

c.21.

of a Statute made in the Thirty first Year of the Reign of King 31 E.3. st.1. Edward the Third, as relates to the regulating the Price and cc.2.5. Weight of Wools, and as relates to the Tun of Wine and the gauging thereof; and also so much of a Statute made in the

Thirty fourth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, 34E.3. c.5. whereby Justices of the Peace are empowered to inquire of Weights and Measures; and also so much of a Statute made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second, as 4R.2.c.1. relates to the gauging of Vessels of Wine, Honey, Oil and other Liquors brought into the Realm; and also so much of a Statute made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second, as relates to the regulating of Weights and Measures, c.9. and to the buying and selling of Wool at Fourteen Pounds the Stone; and also so much of a Statute made in the Fifteenth Year 15 R.2.c.4. of the Reign of King Richard the Second, as relates to Weights and Measures of Corn, Wine, Ale and Malt; and also so much

13 R.2. st. 1.

of a Statute made in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of King 16 R.2. c.3. Richard the Second, as relates to the Clerk of the Market, and

the Assay of Weights and Measures made by him, and the using

such

1 H.5. c. 10.

2 H.6. c.11.

8 H.6. c. 5.

9H.6. c.6.

Id. c.8.

11 H.6. c. 8.

18 H.6. c.17.

22 E.4. c. 2.

1 R.3. c. 13.

7 H.7. c. 4.

Id. c.8.

11 H.7. c. 4.

12 H.7. c.5.

23 H.8. c.4.

24 H.8. c.6.

12 Eliz. (I.)

13 Eliz. c.1. in part.

29 Eliz, c. 8. in part.

such Weights and Measures; and also so much of a Statute made in the First Year of the Reign of King Henry the Fifth, as concerns the true Measure of Corn, or as is intituled An Act concerning the true Measure of Corn; and also so much of a Statute made in the Second Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the several Measures of Vessels of Wine, Eels, Herrings and Salmon; and also so much of a Statute made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the confirming and amending former Statutes concerning Weights and Measures, and requiring common Balances and Weights to be kept in all Cities, Boroughs and Towns; and also so much of a Statute made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the explaining the said Statute of the Eighth Year of King Henry the Sixth, concerning Weights and Measures, so far as relates to the Burgesses of Dorchester; and also so much of the said Statute made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the Weight of a Wey of Cheese; and also so much of a Statute made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the confirming and amending former Statutes concerning Weights and Measures; and also so much of a Statute made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth, as relates to the gauging of Vessels of Wine, Oil, and Honey; and also so much of a Statute made in the Twenty second Year of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the packing of Barrelled Fish, or as is intituled An Act for packing of Barrelled Fish; and also the Whole of an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King Richard the Third, intituled An Act to ascertain the Contents of Vessels of Wine and Oil, or An Act for the Contents of a Butt of Malmsey; and also an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act for Weights and Measures; and also another Act made in the same Seventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act to pay Custom for every Butt of Malmsey; and also an Act made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act for Weights and Measures; and also an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled An Act for Weights and Measures; and also an Act made in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act that no Brewers of Beer or Ale shall make their Barrels, Kilderkins or Firkins within them, and how much the same Barrels, et cetera, shall contain; and also an Act made in the Twenty fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled An Act concerning Sale of Wines; and also an Act made (in the Parliament' of Ireland) in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the establishing the Standard of Measures for Corn within certain Shires of this Realm; and also so much of an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the Maintenance of the Navigation, as relates to the Assize of Herring Barrels; and also so much of an Act made in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act touching the true melting, making and working of Wax, as relates to the Barrel, Kilderkin or Firkin of Honey; and also the Whole of an

Act,