 | Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 858 pages
...Committee appointed to inquire into the original Standards of Weight* and Measures in this Kingdom, and to consider the Laws relating thereto; and to report...uniform and certain Standards of Weights and Measures to be used for the future ; and to whom were referred the Reports which, upon the 26th day of May,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 580 pages
...delivered to the said collector, or other officers as aforesaid, three days at least before any share o£ such prizes shall be paid. It was likewise enacted,...presented a bill, according to order, for enforcing uniformity of weights and measures to the standards by law to be established; but this measure, which... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 576 pages
...weights and measures used in England ; consider the laws relating to them, and report their observations, together with their opinion of the most effectual means for" ascertaining and enforcing uniform standards to be used for the future. The commons were perfectly satisfied with the new works which... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 578 pages
...COMMITTEE, appointed to enquire into the original standards of Weights and Measures in this kingdom, and to consider the laws relating thereto, and to report...uniform and certain standards of Weights and Measures to be used for the future, and to whom were referred the Reports, which, upon the 26th day of May,... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 1032 pages
...original standards of weights and measures in this kingdom, and to consider the laws relating thereto j and to report their observations thereupon, together...uniform and certain standards of weights and measures to be used for the future. — 1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of the committee, that it is necessary,... | |
 | History - 1815 - 822 pages
...Committee appointed to inquire into the original Standards of Weights and Мезsures in this Kingdom, and to consider the Laws relating thereto; and to report...uniform ' and certain Standards of Weights and Measures to be used for the future ; and to whom were referred the Reports which, upon the aoth day of May,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 1026 pages
...Committee appointed to inquire intb the original Standards of Weights and Measures in this Kingdom, and to consider the Laws relating thereto ; and to report...ascertaining and enforcing uniform and certain Standards ofWeights and Measures to be used for the future ; and to whom were referred the Reports which, upon... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 432 pages
...weights and measures used in England; consider the laws relating to them, and report their .observations, together with their opinion of the most effectual means for ascertaining and enforcing uniform standards to be used for the future. The commons were perfectly satisfied with the new works which... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 486 pages
...agent, they would find their bounty or prize-money appropriated to the use of Greenwich-hospital ; nay, should they die in the course of the voyage,...certain standards of weights and measures, they prepared models, copies, patterns, and multiples, and presented them to the house; then they were locked up... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 486 pages
...limited. § LIX. A committee having been appointed to inquire into the original standards of weight and measures in the kingdom of England, to consider...certain standards of weights and measures, they prepared models, copies, patterns, and multiples, and presented them to the house; then they were locked up... | |
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Greenwich hospital; nay, should they die in the course of the voyage, it would be lost to their heirs and executors, who, being ignorant of their title, could not possibly claim within the time limited. § LIX. A committee having been appointed to inquire... 
