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24dly, By a law for regulating weights and meafures, parti- cularly thofe by which corn is fold; although this is one of the moft important branches of pèlice it is fhamefully nezlect- ed, owing to its being left to the management of incorporate bodies in towns. The corn meafures are fraudulently increaf- ed from time to time, and are all of them much larger than the ftandard; the confequence that follows is, that in fixing the price of bread by the aflize, it is always rated and fold at a higher price than the law allows in proportion to the real

price of wheat by the Winchefter bufhel.

3dly, By a law for regulating the aflize of bread, after afcertaining the exaét quantity of flour produced from wheat of different weights, and the exact quantity of bread produced from a given quantity of flour; not by taking the opinion of corn factors, millers, or bakers, in à committee room of the Houfe of Commons, but after a number of aétual experi- ments, repeatedly made by intelligent men not interefted in the trade*.

* By the prefent mode of regulation, the law fuppofes a bufhel of wheat to weigh 56 1bs. and to produce 42 Ibs. of flour, only 3-4ths of the weight of the wheat. The law dire@s this flour to be divided in the bolting, into two equal parts, but of un- equal finenefs; of the fine half the wheaten bread is made, and of the coarfe, the koufehold: The law fuppofes, that there are only 12 quartern loaves made out ofthe

produce of a bufhel of wheat; but from Sir George Young’s experiments, made in

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