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... The Metric System - Page 4by Charles Davies - 1871Full 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,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1866 - 506 pages
...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...metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed Bhall be recognized, in the construction of contracts,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1866 - 508 pages
...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...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 - United States - 1866 - 540 pages
...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 he deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to... | |
| George Augustus Walton - Metric system - 1867 - 28 pages
...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...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,... | |
| Metric system - 1867 - 50 pages
...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...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 - Science - 1867 - 832 pages
...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...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... | |
| Richard Nelson - Arithmetic - 1867 - 304 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
| Ontario County (N.Y.) - 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,... | |
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