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> 9. It is our wish that each steward shall keep in his district measures for modii and sextaria, and vessels containing eight sextaria, and also baskets of the
by pugworthy 6y ago
> 9. It is our wish that each steward shall keep in his district measures for modii and sextaria, and vessels containing eight sextaria, and also baskets of the same capacity as we have in our palace.
For those curious as to the meaning of this one, sextaria is a unit of liquid measure (a pint) and modii is a unit of dry measure (approximately a peck).
So basically they are aiming to have a standard set of measures, which would be important for commerce or tithes of materials such as crops.