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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1885,
CHINESE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES,
1 Fau
WEIGHTH.
Framlareon)="0133 oz. Avoirdupois.
1 T'sin (mace)
=0·133
•
| Lenny (laeli
=
1}
"
喃
1 Kan (enity)
1 Tam (pienl)
= 133
"
and the following weights, vizz—2, 3, 4, 5 tæels: 10, 17, 20, 30, 40, 50 tael-; 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 790 trols.
1 Chirk equal to 14% English inetes, divided into 10. 78'ña und oach Ts'ün into 10 Fan or teuthis.
ENGLISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES,
WEIGHTS.
1. Dz.
Trov.
E
17
1 w
|
4 Ouners Avoirdupoia,
*
1 Pound
01
2 Pounds
A
2x
56
-
*
1 Half Gill.
I Gall
1 Hall Piut,
Piut.
1 test.
*
"
**
物
1 Chinee
*
2 Quares
►
LINGUE
1 Yard divided into feet mod inches,
CAPACITY.
1 Half Gallon
1 Gallon.
i Peck.
1 Half Bushel
1 Bushel.
The coutants of each tueasure to he not heapul, but strokest flat and level with the rim of the vessel.
Measures of longth, if main of wood or humloon, shall (except yurd measures imported from the United Kingdom)
be tippal at the ends with metal to the satisfaction of the Examiner of Weights and Mussures, or, in ease of doubt, of a Police Magistrate, whose decision shall be final.
H
A Police In-peILLE.