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Second Report of the Commissioners www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm ' SECOND REPORT OF THE C0M:MISSIONERS APPOINTED BY HIS MAJESTY TO CONSIDER THE SUBJECT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Ordered, hy The House of Commons, to be Printed, 18 September 1820. www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm THEREPORT - - - - - - . - m P. 5 THE APPENDIX ;- VIZ. (A.)--An Index of Terms relating to Weights and Measures, both in their legal and in their provincial Acceptations :-Extracted, chiefly, from the Reports of the different Counties, published by the Board of Agriculture - - - p. 5 (B.)-A List of the Towns from whence Corn Returns are received, with some account of the Measure of the Bushel usually made use of:-Received from the Office af the Receiver of Corn Returns - - - - - - - p. 38 www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm SECOND a E P o R T OF THE COMMISSIONERS Appointed by HIS MAJESTYto consider the Subject of WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, WE, the Commissioners appointed by Your Majesty, for the purpose of considering how far it may be practicable and advisable, to establish, within Your Majesty's dominions, a more uniform system of WEIGHTSand MEASURES,have examined, since our-last Report, the relation of the best authenticated Standards of Length at present in existenbe, to the instruments employed for measuring the base on Hounslow Heath, and in the late trigonometrical operations.-- But we have very unexpectedly discovered, that an error has been com- mitted in the construction of some of those instruments : We are therefore obliged to recur to the originals which they were intended to represent, and we have found reason to prefer the Parliamentary Standard executed by Bird in 1760, which we had not before received, both as being laid down in the most accurate manner, and as the best agreeing with the most extensive comparisons, which have been hitherto executed by various observers, and circulated throughout Europe ; and in par- ticular with the scale employed by the late Sir George Shuckburgll. www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm 4 SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS We have therefore now to propose, that this Standard be considered as the foundation of all legal Weights and Measures, and that it be declared, that the length of the pendulum vibrating semnds in a vacuum, on the level of the sea, in London, is ?g. 13999-inches, and that of the French metre, 99.37079 inches, the English standards being employed at 62" of ~ahrenheit. 9.-We have annexed to this Report an Appendix, containing a comparison of different customary Weights and Measures, and an explanation of provincial and other terms relating to them ; and we propose at a future time, ta make a further Report respecting the existing Standards of Weight. London, (Signeq GEORGE CLERK. DAVIES GILBERT. W. H. WOLLASTON. THOMAS YOUNG. HENRY KATER. www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm : ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. APPENDIX. Appendix (A .) AN INDEX OF TERMS RELATING TO WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, Both in their legal and in their provincial acceptations. Extracted chiefly from the Reports of the different Counties, published by lhe Board of Agriculture. ACRE,ENG. A measure of land containing 4 roodo=z6o perches= Index ,r Terms 4840 square yardsz43560 square feet. andrelating Measures. to Weights SCOTCHACRE= 61 50,' square yards, E.=5;60 square ells Sc. \-,,-J loo making about 127 E. a. IRISHACRE= 7840 square yards E. = I 60 perches I. each of 7 yards square instead of 5 8. CUSTOMARYACRES : Bedfordshire : Sometimes 2 roods. Cheshire : Formerly and still in some places, I 0240 square yards. Cornroall: Sometimes one of the Welsh acres of 5760 yards. Dorsetshire : Generally 134 perches. Hampshire : From 107 to r 20 percbes, but sometimes 1 So. Herefardshire : Two-thirds of a statute acre. of hops, about half an acre, containing 1ooo plants. of wood, an acre and + or 256 perches. Leicestershire : 2308 + square yards. Lincolnshire : 5 roods, particularly for copyhold land. Staforclshire : Nearly 2 + acres. See Perch. Sussex: 107, I 10, 120, 130, or 212 perches. Short acre, I oo or 120 perches. Forest acre, I 80 perches. Tkstmoreland : 6760 square yards, or l60 perches of 6 g yards square ; in some parts the Irish acre is used. TVorcestershire : Hop acre, I ooo stocks, or go perches ; some- times 132 or 141 perches. N. Wales : Erw, or true acre, ~1320sq. yards ; stang or customary acre 3240 sq. y. as in flnglesey and Camarvonshire, making 5+ Llathen= 160 perches W. of 4; yards square, called paladr ; 8 acres tnaking an 0s-land, and 8 of these aplough-land, in Pem- brokeshire. See Erw and Perch. www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm 6 ,4PPENDIX TO SECOND REPORT OF THE Appendlx ACRE: So~netimesdenotes a measure of length. l, \ (.L.) Index of Terms Buclringlramshire, a chain of 4 poles, or 22 yards. reI,ttir!g to \I1eights and Mrasures. Dertyahire, 4 " roods," each of 7 or of S yards. [Ruthe, Germ. U a rod, or stick.] Yorksl~ir-e,29 yards. ANKER,ten wine gallons. Scotla12d: Twenty Scotch .pints. AUME,or AWM: A tierce of wine, or 42 gallons. BAG, - of Spanish wool, 240 pounds ; of almonds, 3 cwt. ; of currant$, 4 cwt. ; of lime, 1 bustle1 heaped. Deuoizshire : of wheat, 2 bushels, weighing I 40 pounds. of potatoes, 140 pounds. Kent : of hops, 25 cwt. Shrolishi1.e : of wheat, 3 custon~arybushels. Surrey : of hops, 22 cwt. to be 7; f. long, S feet in circumference, the canvas neighing 4 lbs. of poppies, about 3000 heads. S. TYules : of oats, 7 heaped measures or 8 2 striked, making 170 quarts, or 5 bushels I o qts. to weigh 220 lbs. if of old, 240 if of new kinds. A5'cotla?zd. Banzshire : of jour, 84 pounds=gl E. Peeblcs : of ha?-ley, 16 stone, 256 lb.=2;9 or 280 E. BALE,- of boztltel, 20 pieces. 12 Car. 2. of thread, loo bolts. 12 Car. 2. of carama-y seeds, 3 cwt. of cochineal, 1 4 cwt. of cofee, at Mocha, 303 lbs. of Sparzish wood, 25 cwt. BARLEYCORN,+ inch. BAHREL,of (~leand beer, 36 gallons, 43 G. 3. Before this act the legal barrel of ale was only 32 gallons in London, of beer 36 ; and in the country both were 34. 23 H. 8. of anchoz!ies, I 6 pounds. 27 G. 3. of opplcs, 3 bushels. 12 Car. 2. of hnrilla, 2 cwt. 12 Car. 2. of beg; 32 wine gallons. 386.3. of ca?zclles, i o dozen pounds. t 2 Car. 2. of butter, 224 pounds; but 106 only of Essex butter; 156 of SufTolk. of conls, 3 Winchester bushels. 18 G. 3, of coclJ;sh, wet, 32 gallons. 5 G. l. of www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm COMRIISSIONERS ON MrEI[GHTS AND MEASURES. B~n~~~-continued. Appendix of eels, 42 32 Ed. 4; but 30 by 2 H. 6. (A .) b of jsh in general, to be gaged by wine measure. 38 G. 3. Index of Terms of gunpoxder, i oo pounds neat. 4 G. 2. relating to ?Yeights and hleasurc~s of Berrirgs, 42 gallons. 32 Ed. 4. and 5 1.; but fogallons G. , ' , a H. 6. Estimated to contain 23.5 pounds of fish if packed with small salt ; 212 if with great salt ; and 4 unpacked are considered as equal to 3 packed. 26 G. 3. of honey, 32 wine gallocs. 23 Eliz. Otherwise 42 gallons of 12 pounds each. of nzzcm, 42 gallons. 1 I G. 1. Otherwise 32. of nuts, 3 bushels. 12 Car. a. of oil, 3 I f wine gallons. of pilchards, or mackarel, salted, 50 galIons. 41 G. 3. of pork, to be gaged by wine measure. 38 G. 3. of potashes, 2 cwt. I 2 Car. a. of plntes, white or black, 300. 12 Car. 2. , of raisins, 1 cwt. of salmon, 42 gallons. 32 Ed. 4. 5 G. I. of soap, 256 pounds. I o Anne. of spirits, 31 4 wine gallons. of sprtcce beer, 42 gallons. I 1 G. 1. of tar, 3 I ;gallons. 24 G. 2. of ainegsar, 34 ale gallons. I o and 1 1 W. 3. of wine, 31 $ gallons. 1 Rich. 3. Isle of Man : of lime, 6 Winchester bushels. Guernsey and Jersey : of charcoal and lime, 120 pots=6o gallons. Wales : of lime, in sorne counties 3 provincial bushels of I o gallons each, making 3%Winchester bushels, the measure being square and without a bottotn. of culm, in some parts 4 heaped bushels; 'in some 40 gallons. Scotland : of beef or herrings, 32 gallons. of salmon, 42 gallons. Argylc~hire : of herrings, 32 gallons E. Banfshire : of coal, about i 2 stone. 2 I o lbs. E. Crowtarty and Ross-shire : of coal, l o gallons Scotch. of limestone, 32 gallons E. Gallore~ny: of corzl, Ss gallons E. Kincal-dinc~hire : of $ad; 18 pecks. Morny and Nairn : of coals, 3 Winchester bushels heaped, weighing about 13 stone Dutch. Ross-shire, see Cromarty. Ireland : of grain, in general, formerly 4 bushels of 10 gallons each. of barley, 16 stone, 224 pounds. 314. of www.sizes.com/library/British law/Second_Report_1820.htm 8 APPENDIX TO SECOND' REPORT OF THE ' Appendix BAR REL-lreland-con tinued. (A.) of beans, pease, and wheat, 20 stone. Index of Terms ' of malt, 12 stone. relating to Weights of oats, 14 stone. and Measures. of potatoes, 20 stone. of roclle lime, 40 gallons of zi7,6, cubic inches each. BASKET,of medlars, 2 bushels. 12 Car. 2. of Spa water, 150 flasks. 11 G.
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