| Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - Conveyancing - 1826 - 658 pages
...line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures " STANDARD YARD, 1760," are engraved, shall be the original and genuine... | |
| Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - 1827 - 336 pages
...The standard of weight is declared to be " the brass weight of one pound troy, made in the year 1758, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, which is to be denominated the Imperial Standard Troy Pound ; and the 5760th part of this pound is... | |
| Esq. James Watson - Law - 1828 - 602 pages
...line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures, "Standard yard " 1760," are engraved, shall be, and the same is hereby... | |
| Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Vendors and purchasers - 1830 - 978 pages
...line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures, " standard yard, 1760," are engraved, shall be the original and genuine... | |
| William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 pages
...Commissioners. § 4. Enacts, That the standard brass weight of 1 pound Troy, made in the year 1758, and now in the custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, shall be the unit or only standard of weight, from which all other weights shall be derived : That 1-1 2th of... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
..." that distance between the centres of the two points HI the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the house of commons, whereon the words and figures ' Standard yard, 1760' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine... | |
| Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...line or distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the words and figures " standard yard, 1 760," are engraved, shall be the original and genuine... | |
| Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 938 pages
..." that distance between the centres of the two points in the gold studs in the straight brass rod, now in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons, wherein the words and figures ' Standard Yard, 1760,' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine... | |
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