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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

In all cases in which the merchant's specification, or copies of bills of lading, may be furnished with the entries for such Wood Goods aз are allowed to be delivered on the merchant's specification, the tide waiter on board the importing vessel may fill up and sign the lighter notes, and release the barges, with the exception of the last, which is to be cleared by the wood farm officer, but not until the duties on the goods shall have been paid and the accounts adjusted. When deals and battens are landed and assorted in the docks in London or other ports, where the returns from the Dock Companies govern the payment of freight, dock charges, and the sale of the goods, the total number of pieces comprised in the cargo, and the aggregate of the St. Petersburg standard, as reduced by the Dock Companies for payment of freight, dock charges, and for sale, be received as the basis for ascertaining the cubical content of the cargo.

The acceptance of the merchant's specification, or Dock Companies' returns, as the basis on which the duties chargeable on Wood Goods are to be calculated, will not only afford relief to the merchant, but be productive of considerable facilities in discharge of the importing vessel. The Board feel, however, that they would not be justified in dispensing altogether with the means of testing the accuracy of those documents, and they therefore deem it proper to require that the original bills of lading be exhibited to the proper officers at the time of the passing of the prime entries, except as respects deals and battens delivered according to the Dock Companies' returns, in order that an opportunity may be afforded for comparing the documents prior to the delivery of goods.

FOREIGN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Table of the Weights used in the principal Foreign Places of Commerce with their equivalent Weights in Pounds Avoirdupois.

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Table of the Weights used in the principal Foreign Places of Commerce, with their Equivalent Weights in Pounds Avoirdupois (continued).

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Alexandria.-The Egyptian weights are very nearly the same as the Turkish weights, but the cantaro is only 36 okes, and therefore 11 Egyptian cantari are nearly equal to 9 cantari of Constantinople. N.B.-The weights are now the same throughout Egypt, and it is usual to reckon the rottoli as 1 lb. avoirdupois.

Amsterdam.-The weights of the kingdom of the Netherlands are formed on the models of those of France; the pond being equal to the kilogramme, and the wigtje to the gramme.

Ancona.-The Roman weights are used by the government throughout the Papal territories.

Antwerp.-The Belgian weights are the same as the French weights.

Athens. This estimate of the cantaro is made from the weight of the Turkish oke; but it is more general to reckon it as equal to the English cwt. or 112 lb. avoirdupois.

Augsburg. There is another centner for coarse and heavy goods, which is equal to 108 41 lb. avoirdupois; and this difference of weights, like that of the troy and avoirdupois weights of this country, is very common in the states of Germany. Barcelona.-The Catalonian quintal contains 4 arrobas, each of 26 Catalonian lb., and is reckoned equal to 91 lb. of Madrid, or 92.31 lb. avoirdupois. Basle or Basel.-Silk and all goods sold by retail are weighed by a lighter weight, 21 lb. of which weight are equal to 20 commercial weight. Berlin. The Prussian centner contains 110 Prussian lb. or 113 43 lb. avoirdupois. N.B. The weights are the same throughout the Prussian dominions. Bologna (see Ancona).-It may be here remarked that in most places of Italy, except in the capitals, other local weights are used than the official weights of the country, but exact estimations of scarcely any of them have as yet been made.

Bremen.-100 lb. commercial weight make 106 lb. retail weight.

Calcutta. The bazar maund is reckoned equal to the Indian maund, by which duties are paid; but the latter is exactly 82 2-7th lb. avoirdupois. 100 bazar maunds are equal to 110 factory maunds, and 3 factory maunds are equal to 2 cwt. English.

Canton. The catty is divided into 16 taels. 3 peculs are equal to 400 lb. avoirdupois; 84 catties to 1 cwt. English; and 12 teals to 1 lb. avoirdupois. Christiana. The weights of this place, as well as those of other places in Norway, are the same as those of Denmark.

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Constantinople.--The cantaro is also divided into 100 rottoli, each of 176 drams; the dram is the element of the Turkish weights, and is equal to 48 grains troy. N.B.-The steelyard is almost universally employed throughout the East for the weighing of goods.

Copenhagen.-The Danish lispound is 16 lb., and 20 lispounds make 1 shippound. Corfu.-In Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia, and the other Ionian Islands, the English avoirdupois pound has been established as the legal weight. The migliajo is 1000 lb.

Cagliari. The cantaro here given is that of the island of Sardinia, but in
Cagliari another cantaro of 104 Sardinian lb. is also used.
Dantzig.-See Berlin.

Frankfort-on-the-Maine.-There is a heavy weight, as before observed (see Augsburg), used here, 100 lb. of which are equal to 111-42 lb. avoirdupois. N.B.-The Zollverein centner of 50 kilogrammes (110-24 Ib. avoirdupois) is used in all the states of the German Customs Union, for the estimation of duties.

Geneva. The French weights are also used here.

Genoa. The weight cailed peso grosso has been abolished.

Hamburg. The shippound is 20 lispounds, each of 14 Hamburg lb. N.B.-The weights of Altona, in the Danish territories, are the same as those of Hamburg.

Hanover. The Prussian weights have lately been introduced into the kingdom of Hanover.

Leghorn. The weights of this place are those of Florence and other places in the grand duchy of Tuscany.

Lisbon. The Portuguese arroba contains 32 Portuguese lb. The quintal of 4 arrobas contains therefore 128 Portuguese lb.

N.B.-The Brazilian weights are the same as those of Portugal. Lubec. There is very slight difference between the weights of Lubec and those of Hamburg.

Madrid. The weights of Madrid, called Castilian weights, are the legal weights of this kingdom, and of the Spanish colonies and settlements in Asia and America.

Malta. The Maltese weights are those of Sicily. N.B.-4 rottoli are reckoned exactly equal to 7 lb. avoirdupois.

Messina. The Sicilian rottoli is 2 Sicilian lb.

Milan. The chilogramma, the French kilogramme, is called also the libbra nuova throughout Lombardo-Veneto.

Munich or Munchen.-The Bavarian centner contains 5 stein or stones, each of 20 Bavarian lb.

Naples. The cantaro of 100 rottoli is sometimes called the cantaro lordo, or coarse cantaro.

Paris. Since the year 1840 no other weight can be legally used throughout France than the kilogramme, with its multiples and parts.

Petersburg.-10 Russian lb. are usually reckoned exactly equal to 9 lb. avoirdupois. The berkowitz is 10 poods, or 400 Russian lb.

Ragusa.--Venetian weights are also used for country produce, and Turkish weights, reckoning the oke at 2 Vienna lb., for dealings with Turkey. Rome.-100 Roman lb. make 1 cantaro sottile.

Smyrna. The cantaro is of various numbers of okes, according to the things weighed, and the places where it is used; but there is a little variation in the weight of the oke in all parts of the Ottoman empire.

Stockholm.-Besides the proper commercial weight of Sweden, called victualievigt, other weights are used for particular purposes, the principal being that called stapelstad-vigt (also iron weight), the pound of which is 4-5ths of the victualie pound.

Turin.-See Milan.

Venice. The weights called peso grosso and peso sottile are becoming out of use, being superseded by the chilogramma or libra nuova, which is the government weight.

Vienna. The Austrian or Vienna weight is in Trieste called funti weight, from the German word pfund or pound.

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