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  <dc:title>Letter from [Henry James] Chaney, Board of Trade (Standards Department), 7 Old Palace Yard, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the Weights and Measures Act 1878. Refers to Section 35 of the Act, which requires 'parliamentary copies of the imperial standard' to be 'compared once every ten years with each other'. As time for the comparison 'has again arrived', Chaney requests the Secretary to deliver the parliamentary copy of the standard yard and pound to the officer of the Standards Department.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1 September 1891</dc:date>
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