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4 6 C Defraudment by false standards

in question; whether by the horizontality of the ends of two arms
purporting to be equal as in ordinary scales, or of two arms purporting
to be unequal, as in case of the ordinary steel-yard or by
the degree of tension given to a spring, as in the spring steel-yard,
or by any other contrivances made use of for the same end. To p. 5. No 2

2. Standards of weight are designed to make known the quantity
of the thing in question, by a direct method; standards of
measure, indirectly by means of the space it occupies.

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From p. 5. No 2 [(E) Fraudulent application applying] As by slipping the thread which suspends
one of the scales nearer the fixed point of the balance than
it should be.

Instructions to the Legislator.

1. There are also standards of quality; thus the touch-stone is
the standard of purity in gold; the instrument called the hydrometer
of specific gravity and thence of genuineness in regard to fermented spirits and other
liquors,. but These are sta infinitely various according to the infinite
variety of the articles of which the fineness or other quality may
need to be determined. The regulations therefore respecting such
standards as those in the few cases, if any, in which any particular

Identifier: | JB/071/151/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1-2
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	151	Info in main headings field	defraudment by false standards
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[ec with crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23554
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