NBS Special Publication, Issue 247

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918

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Page 3 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 3 - States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
Page 27 - States may be induced to undertake a thorough reformation of their whole system of measures, weights and coins, reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in their coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers, greater changes will be necessary.
Page 5 - Senate a statement relative to the regulation and standard for weights and measures in the several States, and relative to proceedings in foreign countries for establishing uniformity in weights and measures, together with such propositions relative thereto as may be proper to be adopted in the United States.
Page 29 - Kilogramme is a mass of platinumiridium deposited at the same place, and its weight in vacuo is the same as that of the Kilogramme des Archives. The...
Page 4 - An uniformity in the Weights and Measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution, and, if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to trw public councils, than conducive to the public convenience.
Page 29 - These include the development and maintenance of the national standards of measurement and the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with these standards...
Page 27 - While the Constitution of the United States authorizes Congress to ' fix the standard of weights and measures,' this power has never been definitely exercised, and but little legislation has been enacted upon the subject.
Page 27 - London in 1827, also by Gallatin. In 1828 the latter was, by act of Congress, made the standard of mass for the Mint of the United States, and, although totally unfit for such purpose, it has since remained the standard for coinage purposes. In 1830 the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to cause a comparison to be made of the standards of weight and measure used at the principal custom-houses, as a result of which large discrepancies were disclosed in the weights and measures in use. The Treasury...
Page 6 - To fix the standard, with the partial uniformity of which it is susceptible, for the present, excluding all innovation. 2. To consult with foreign nations, for the future and ultimate establishment of universal and permanent uniformity.

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