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Stere, the measure intended particularly for firewood and equal to the cubic meter Meter, the measure equal to one-ten millionth of the arc of the terrestrial meridian included between the north pole and the equator ДЄre, The measure of area for land, equal to a square, ten meters to a side Henceforth the new measures shall be designated by the name of republican measures their nomenclature is definitively adopted as follows. Whereas the extreme precision which will be given to the platinum standard cannot affect the exactness of the ordinary measures, such measures shall continue to be manufactured in accordance with the length of the meter adopted by previous decrees.ДҐ. Such models shall be used in the manufacture of all kinds of measures in the ordinary use of citizens.Д¤. To each district seat there shall be sent a model conforming to the prototype standard just mentioned, and, moreover, a model of weight exactly deduced from the system of new measurements. Said standard shall be executed with the greatest precision, according to the experience and observations of the commissioners responsible for the determination thereof, and it shall be deposited in the neighborhood of the Legislative Body, as well as the procГЁs-verbal of the operations which have served in determining it, so that it may be verified at all times.ДЈ. There is only one standard of weights and measures for the entire Republic there shall be a platinum ruler on which will be marked the meter, which has been adopted as the fundamental unit of the whole system of measurement. The time prescribed by the decree of August 1793, for the use of the new weights and measures is extended, with regard to the obligatory provision, until the National Convention has decreed again thereon, in proportion to the progress of their manufacture citizens are invited, however, to give proof of their devotion to the unity and indivisibility of the Republic by making use of the new measures henceforth in their calculations and commercial transactions.Дў.

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