Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867: Published Under the Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of the Senate of the United States, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1870 |
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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 139 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 37 - Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts and Apparatus of the Exact Sciences...
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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 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States, respectively.
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 98 - ... it being understood that the President may appoint additional commissioners, not exceeding twenty in number, whose expenses shall not be paid; but no person interested, directly or indirectly, in any article exhibited shall be a commissioner; nor shall any member of Congress, or any person holding an appointment or office of honor or trust under the United States be appointed a commissioner, agent, or officer under this resolution.
Page 137 - In answer to Lord Lyons's letter of the 9th instant, I have the honor to inform you that neutral vessels will be allowed fifteen days to leave port after the actual establishment of the blockade, whether such vessels are with or without cargoes.
Page 162 - Extracts from the Report of the International Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coins, with a Notice of the Use of the Metric System in the United States, and its Relations to other Systems of Weights and Measures.