Regulation and Control of Manufacture, Sale, and Use of Weights and Measures, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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ABERCROMBIE adopted as standard affirmative action agricultural colleges ascertained Ashbrook bill bill H. R. Bonaparte BUCHANAN Bureau of Standards Commerce and Labor COMMITTEE ON COINAGE Constitution Earl establish a standard exclusive legal unit exclusively by weight Federal Govern FISCHER fix a standard fix the standard gives the Bureau goes into effect hearings HICKS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inconvenience interstate invalid or liable joint resolution referred July 28 last Congress legislation lime industry lime justly lime sell manufacturers of lime measures adopted measures supplied measures throughout metric system opinion prescribed stamp question REAVIS REGULATION AND CONTROL right of Congress right to establish right to fix Secretary of Commerce sell lime seller SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SLAYDEN standard barrel bill standard of weights SWEET throughout the United THURMAN Treasury Department type of scale unit for weights United States Government week ago to-day weight or measure weights and measures
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Page 30 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system...
Page 30 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized, in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of tbe weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Page 28 - That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union,, for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United States, and also one set of the same for the use of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page 22 - ... to regulate and control the manufacture, sale, and use of weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices for use or used in trade or commerce, and for other purposes.
Page 30 - ... subject. I quote from section 3569 of the statutes: It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system, and no contract or pleading in any court shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights and measures expressed and referred to therein are the weights and measures of the metric system.
Page 23 - Committee, which reported a substitute for these bills that was passed by both the House and the Senate and was approved as law on March 30, 1889.
Page 28 - That the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States shall be the weights and measures supplied by the United States Government under joint resolutions of Congress, approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and such new weights and measures in addition thereto or renewal thereof, and in conformity therewith, as have been or shall be established by the several...
Page 21 - C. HILLIARD, Colorado. WILLIAM J. SEARS, Florida. JAMES H. MAYS, Utah. EE ROBERTS, Nevada. ISAAC BACHARACH, New Jersey. WALTER R. STINESS, Rhode Island. BURTON E. SWEET. Iowa. HENRY I. EMERSON", Ohio. JAMES W. HUSTED, New York.
Page 24 - Of course, there is no dispute on the part of any member of the committee, so far as I know, on that proposition.
Page 22 - Standards the regulation and control of the manufacture, sale, and use of weights and measures.