 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...  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 596edited by - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Agriculture - 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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades - Almanacs, American - 1868 - 672 pages
...our currency : 1. It shall be lawful, throughout the United Statesuf America, toemploy the welghtsand measures of the Metric system ; and no contract or...therein, are weights or measures of the Metric system. 2. The tables in the schedules hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1866 - 508 pages
...from aud 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...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 540 pages
...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...contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall he deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to... | |
 | Metric system - 1867 - 50 pages
...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...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Metric system - 1867 - 28 pages
...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...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedules hereto annexed * shall be recognized... | |
 | Richard Nelson - Arithmetic - 1867 - 304 pages
...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;...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... | |
 | Education - 1867 - 356 pages
...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...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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1867 - 832 pages
...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...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. " SEC. 2. And be it farther ruactetl, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | 1867 - 564 pages
...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...deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the \\fi2hts or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights and measures of the metric system.... | |
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