of office of the chamberlain of the exchequer, and not to be opened but
by the order and in the presence of the chancellor of the exchequer
and chief baron for the time being. That the most effectual means
to ascertain uniformity in measures of length and weight, to be used
throughout the realm, would he to appoint certain persons, at one
particular office, with clerks and workmen under them, for the purpose
only of fixing and adjusting, for the use of the subjects, all
measures of length, and all weights, being parts, multiples, or certain
proportions of the standards to be used for the future. That a model or
pattern of the said standard yard, mentioned in the second resolution of
the former committee, and now in the custody of the clerk of the house,
and a model or pattern of the standard pound, mentioned in the eighth
resolution of that committee, together with models or patterns of the
parts of the said pound now presented to the house, and also of the
multiples of the said pound, mentioned in this report (when the same
are adjusted), should be kept in the said office, in custody of the said
persons to be appointed for sizing weights and measures, under the seal
of the chief baron of the exchequer for the time being; to be opened
only by order of the said chief baron, in his presence, or the presence
of one of the barons of the exchequer, on the application of the said
persons, for the purpose of correcting and adjusting, as occasion should
require, the patterns or models used at the said office, for sizing
measures of length and weight delivered out to the subjects. That models
or patterns of the said standard yard and standard pound aforesaid, and
also models or patterns of the parts and multiples aforesaid of the
said pound, should be lodged in the said office for the sizing of such
measures of length or weight, as, being parts, multiples, or proportions
of the said standards, should hereafter he required by any of his
majesty's subjects. That all measures of length and weight, sized at the
said office, should be marked in some convenient part thereof, with
such marks as should be thought expedient, to show the identity of
the measures and weights sized at the said office, and to discover any
frauds that may be committed therein. That the said office should
he kept within a convenient distance of the court of exchequer at
Westminster; and all the measures of length and weight, within a certain
distance of London