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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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9 H. 3, CAP. 25, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 23

one measure of Ale, and one
measure of Corn, that is to
Bay, the Quarter of London;
and one breadth of dyed Cloth,
Russets, and Haberjects, that
is to say, two yards within
the lists. (2) And it shall be
of Weights as it is of Meas-
ures.
mensura cervisie & una nien-
sura bladi scilicet quarter'
London & uua latitudo panno-
rum tinctorum russettorum &
haubergettorum scilicet due
ulne infra listas. De pooderi-
bus vero sit sicut de mensuris.

 
2 Inst. 40.
An elaborate account of the legislation in the Province and the State,
and of the provisions of the English Statutes which extended to Maryland,
upon the subject of Weights and Measures, will be found in the Report of
the late Professor J. H. Alexander to the Governor of Maryland, upon "the
Standard of Weight and Measure for the State of Maryland; and on the
construction of the Yard Measures:" made on the 13th December 1845.
The reader is also referred to the Report of the late Professor A. D. Baehe
to the Treasury Department, "on the progress of the work of constructing
standards of weights and measures for the custom-houses, and balances
for the States," &c. made on the 30th December 1856, Ex. Doc. No. 27, 34th
Congress, 3rd Session.
The Code, Art. 96, sec. I,1 provides that the standards for weights and
measures in this State, except as otherwise provided for in the Article,
shall be such as are used in the Custom-house in Baltimore. According to
Professor Bache's Report above referred to:
1. The actual standard of length of the United States is a brass scale of
eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the Coast of the
United States, by Troughton of London, and deposited in the Office of
Weights and Measures. The temperature, at which this scale is a stand-
ard, is 62° Fahrenheit, and the yard measure is between the 27th and 63rd
inches of the scale. Professor Bache remarks that the copies or standards
made for the Treasury Department, the States, the Custom-houses, &c. be-
ing of brass, the temperature at which the brass scale of Troughton is a
standard is not of practical importance as far as making the copies is con-
cerned, and no differences of expansion have been detected in various com-
parisons between the Troughton scale and our standard. The number
used by Mr. Hassler for the expansion of brass was derived from his ex-
periments made at Newark in 1817, recorded in the second volume new
series of the American Philosophical Society's Transactions; it was for
The whole of Art. 97 of the Code of 1904, "Weights and Measures."
together with all amendments thereto to date, appears to have been re-
pealed and re-enacted by the Act of 1910, ch. 353, and two additional Sec-
tions were added by the Act of 1910, ch. 738. (Code 1911, Art, 97, and note
to see. 28).
Sec. 1 provides that the standard for weights and measures in this State,
except as otherwise provided in the Article, shall be the same as the
standard of weights and measures of the United States.

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