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11 ditto 12 inches 9 ditto 9 inch astragal avoirdupois barrel bead flush brass brick bushels CARPENTER & JOINER CARPENTER and JOINER cast iron circular ditto circumference common containing copper corn cube feet diam ditto ditto dry measure equal exceeding feet 6 inches feet ditto foot cube foot run foot super framed frustum gallons gravity per foot half a load hogsheads inch deal inch ditto inches thick inches wide JOINER labour and nails laths length load For half load of dry mahogany Mill Millwrights mouldings Multiply ogee ounces ovolo ovolo flat pair pannel patent pint pipe plates polish pound Prime Cost product will give quart quirk ogee rabbeted roof sashes screws small load soffits specific gravity square standard steel stone superficial tiles timber Uniformity Act wainscot weights and measures wheels wine wood wrought iron wrought one side yard zinc
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Page 399 - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch...
Page 401 - ... containing ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches...
Page 398 - ... it is necessary for the security of commerce, and for the good of the community, that weights and measures should be just and uniform: and whereas notwithstanding it is provided by the Great Charter, that there shall be but one measure and one weight throughout the realm, and by the treaty of union between England and Scotland, that the same weights and measures should be used throughout Great Britain, as were then established in England; yet different weights and measures, some larger, and some...
Page 456 - Plumb Line, in a parallel Direction with the Water, to a perpendicular Point immediately over the Load Water Mark at the fore Part of the Main Stem...
Page 304 - ... or information in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster or in Ireland, or in the court of session in Scotland, one half to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other to any person who shall sue for the same...
Page 400 - ... a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches, is equal to 252 grains and 458 thousandth parts of a grain...
Page 416 - Sixth year of His late Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's "Sugar Colonies in America...
Page 377 - And where any legatee shall take two or more distinct legacies or benefits under any will or testamentary instrument, which shall together be of the amount or value of £20 each, shall be charged with duty, though each or either may be separately under that amount or value.
Page 126 - To half a pint of milk put an equal quantity of vinegar, in order to curdle it; then separate the curd from the whey, and mix the whey with the whites of four or five eggs, beating the whole well together.
Page 392 - APPRAISEMENT or valuation of any property, or of any interest therein, or of the annual value thereof, or of any dilapidations, or of any repairs wanted, or of the materials and labour used or to be used in any building, or of any artificers