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Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings - Page 338
1851
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A Supplement to Barton's Precedents in Conveyancing, Volumes 1-2

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...
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The farmer's guide and agriculturist's companion, a new system of farm book ...

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...
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A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year ..., Volume 1

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...
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Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland ...

James Wilson, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Patrick Shaw, Charles Hope Maclean, William Reginald Courtenay Earl of Devon - Appellate courts - 1829 - 694 pages
...line or distance between the centre 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...
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A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates

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...
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The Quarterly Journal Of Agriculture

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...
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

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...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 8

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 630 pages
...is "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, whereon the words and figures ' Standard yard, 17CO' are engraved, which is declared to be the genuine...
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The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...

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...
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The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending ..., Volume 2

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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