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1st quarter 2d quarter 4th quarter A. P. Hill account of Treasury Assistant Treasurer United Aves island avoirdupois balances Boston C. H. Peaslee CHARLES EAMES Chubb Brothers Clerks and messengers Collector Compensation contingent expenses copy custom-houses Depositary foreign FOURTH QUARTER 1855-Continued gallon gauging guano H. J. Redfield hydrometers inches Iowa island isle J. T. Hudson J. T. Miller Jones kilogramme Light-house Louis Mass messengers in office Milwaukie Navy Newnansville office of ditto Ohio Orleans Outstanding previous P. F. Thomas P. G. T. Beauregard pounds Quart quarter of 1855 Receiver Public Moneys Report Riggs San Francisco sealer SECOND QUARTER 1856-Continued Secretary Shelton Smith standard weights Statement exhibiting Swackhamer T. C. Porter Territory THIRD QUARTER 1855-Continued troy weights Venezuela vessels W. A. Linn W. F. Colcock warrants paid Washington weights and measures York
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Page 52 - Thus it is a law of the nature of water that under the mean pressure of the atmosphere at the level of the sea, it boils at 212° Fahrenheit.
Page 65 - The half bushel and the parts thereof shall be the standard measure for fruits and other commodities customarily sold by heaped measure; and in measuring such commodities the half bushel or other smaller measure shall be heaped as high as may be, without...
Page 34 - The standard weights and measures now in charge of the secretary of state, being the same that were furnished to this state by the government of the United States, in accordance with a joint resolution of congress, approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and consisting of one standard yard measure...
Page 70 - That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards...
Page 33 - ... measured, to be the limit of the base of the cone, and such cone to be as high as the article will admit.
Page 34 - ... one set of standard weights, comprising one troy pound, and nine avoirdupois weights of one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, twenty-five, and fifty pounds, respectively ; one set of standard troy ounce weights, divided decimally from ten ounces to the one...
Page 59 - There is but one standard of measure of length and surface, one of weight, and one of capacity, throughout this State, which must be in conformity with the standard of measure of length, surface, weight, and capacity established by Congress.
Page 14 - William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, the assurances of his most distinguished consideration.
Page 70 - Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union...
Page 34 - June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and consisting of one standard yard measure and one set of standard weights, comprising one Troy pound, and nine avoirdupois weights of one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty pounds respectively; one set of standard Troy ounce weights, divided decimally from ten ounces to the one ten-thousandth of an ounce...