Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867: Published Under Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of the Senate of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1870 |
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Page 139 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 8 - Act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the Weights and Measures of the Metric System...
Page 38 - Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts and Apparatus of the Exact Sciences...
Page 8 - BLAKE, WP Report upon the Precious Metals. Being Statistical Notices of the Principal Gold and Silver producing regions of the world, represented at the Paris Universal Exposition. 8vo, cloth $2.00 BLAKESLEY, TH Alternating Currents of Electricity.
Page 144 - And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of said...
Page 9 - Statutes 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 the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Page 10 - General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to the post-offices exchanging mails with foreign countries, and to such other offices as he shall think expedient, postal balances denominated in grammes of the metric system...
Page 9 - 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 304 - ... or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes herein specified, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; and out of such amount the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to collect and prepare, as far as practicable and with as little delay as possible, suitable specimens of the agricultural productions of the several States and Territories of the Union for exhibition at the Paris exposition.
Page 147 - Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives, gives a readable account of the part played by France in the American Revolution.