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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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12 H. 7, CAP. 5, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 355
more diligent Examination had sith the making of the said
Statute, been approved defective, and not made according to
the old Laws and Statutes thereof ordained within the said
Eealm: (4) Wherefore the King our Sovereign Lord, by the
Assent of his Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the
same, ordaineth, establisheth, and enacteth, That the Measure of
a Bushel contain viij. Gallons of Wheat, and that every Gallon
contain viij. li. of Wheat of Troy Weight, and every Pound
contain xij. Ounces of Troy Weight, and every Ounce contain
.Tar. Sterlings, and every Sterling be of the Weight of .rxxij.
Corns of Wheat that grew in the midst of the Ear of Wheat, ac-
cording to the old Law of this Land. (5) And that it pleaseth
the King's Highness to make a Standard of a Bushel and a Gal-
lon after the said Assise, to remain in his said Treasury for
ever; (6) and from henceforth the said new Bushels and Gal-
lons, lately sent forth, be not used nor occupied for no Measures,
but that they be sent again to the King's Receipt by the Feast
of Whitsontide next coming, at the Costs and Charges of the
said Cities, Boroughs, and Towns having the said Bushels and
Gallons in keeping, upon pain of x. li to be forfeited to the
King; (7) the same Bushels and Gallons, so sent again into the
King's Receipt, to be broken, and with the Stuff and Metal of
the same Bushels and Gallons, other new Bushels and Gallons,
by the Advice of the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of England for the time being, before the Feast of All Saints next
coming, to* be made and sized according to the said 271
Bushel and Gallon, which by this present Act is ordained to be
new made, and to remain in the said Treasury, at the Costs and
Charges of the same Cities, Boroughs, and Towns. (8) And
that every City, Borough, and Town within this Realm, which
now have, or should have had, by reason of the said Act made
in the said eleventh Year, any of the said new Bushels or Gal-
lons, do convey and carry, before the Feast of Saint Andrew
next coming, into every of the same City, Borough, and Town,
a Bushel and a Gallon newly to be made, as is afore said, at
the Costs and Charges of the same City, Borough, and Town,
there to remain; (9) and all other Bushels, Gallons, and Meas-
ures, which be to be made after the Form by this Act ordained,
be marked and ordered after the Form and Effect of the said
Act made the said eleventh Year; (10) and in the mean season
to use such Bushels and Gallons, as have been used last afore

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