2. The Corn Returns Act, 1882, shall be amended as follows:—
(1) In section five (which relates tot he weekly returns of purchases of British corn) the words “the weight or measure by which the same was bought” shall be repealed.
(2) For section eight (which relates to the computing of corn according to the bushel) the following section shall be substituted:—
“8. In the weekly summary of quantities and prices each sort of British corn shall be computed with reference to the hundredweight of one hundred and twelve imperial standard pounds.”
(3) In subsection (6) of section nine (which relates to the computation and publication of averages) and in section ten (which relates to the application of the septennial average to the Tithe Commutation Acts) for the words “imperial bushel” there shall be substituted the words “hundred-weight of one hundred and twelve imperial standard pounds.”
