CONVERTED INTO POUNDS AVOIRDUPOIS. Kilogramme 2.2046 lbs. According to Act of July 28th, 1866. FRENCH H LITRE S, REDUCED TO WINE-QUARTS. Litre -1.0567 Quart; Decilitre 10567 Quart. According to Act of July 28th, 1866. N.B. All fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, weighing over 100 fbs. per 100 square feet, must pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates as above, and on looking-glass plates, or plate glass silvered, when framed, there is a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem on the frames in addition to the above rates. *Provided, That unpolished cylinder, crown, and common window glass, imported in boxes containing fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes will permit, now known and commercially designated as fifty feet of glass, single thick and weighing not to exceed fifty-five pounds of glass per box, shall be entered and computed as fifty pounds of glass only; and that said kinds of glass imported in boxes containing, as nearly as sizes will permit, fifty feet of glass, now known and commercially designated as fifty feet of glass, double thick and not exceeding ninety pounds in weight, shall be entered and computed as eighty pounds of glass only; but in all other cases the duty shall be computed according to the actual weight of glass. (26) To reduce Lineal Metres, Aunes, and Berlin Ells to Lineal yards, proceed as follows: 1 Metres, by adding to their number, 12, 10, and of; Aunes, by adding to their number 1, or 25 per cent. thereof; and Berlin Ells,* by multiplying their number by .7294, or by .73, which is sufficiently accurate for ordinary purposes. To reduce the lineal yards thus obtained to square yards, the above table may, of course, be used as in other cases. Ells of Brabant by multiplying their number by .766, and Ells of Vienna by .852 |