 | 1878 - 492 pages
...five pounds. 21 . A contract or dealing shall not be invalid or open to objection on the ground that the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system, or on the ground that decimal subdivisions of imperial weights and measures, whether metric or otherwise,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1866 - 508 pages
...measures of the metric system ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized, in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1866 - 540 pages
...measures of the metric system ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall he deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto an • nexed shall be recognized, in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - 1867 - 28 pages
...measures of the metric system ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedules hereto annexed * shall be recognized in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | 1867 - 50 pages
...measures of the metric system ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized, in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1867 - 832 pages
...measures of the metric system ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...measures of the metric system. " SEC. 2. And be it farther ruactetl, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized, in the construction... | |
 | 1867 - 236 pages
...Kill-o-gram. Mvriagram, Mir-ea-sram. Quintal, Quin-taf. Millier, Mill-i-er. Tonnean, Tun-no. cause the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed, shall be recognized in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | Richard Nelson - 1867 - 304 pages
...measures of the Metric System; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights...therein are weights or measures of the Metric System. prefixes are deci, -j^jth ; centi, -j-Jirth ! decimeter is one-tenth and a centimeter one-hundredth... | |
 | 1867 - 356 pages
...Measures of the Metric System ; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights...therein are weights or measures of the Metric System. SECTION 2. — AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized... | |
 | 1867 - 280 pages
...Kill-o-li-ter. Tonneau, Tun-ne, Myriallter, Mir-ea-li-ter, Acts and Resolutions of Congress, cause the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures PUBLIC -No. 183. ol the metric system. SEC. a. And be it further enacted, That AN ACT to authorize... | |
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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 ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable... 
