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Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Construction and Distribution ... 34th Congress 3d Session No preview available - 2016 |
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28th Congress A. D. BACHE act to regulate adopted APPENDIX approved March April 15 avoirdupois and troy balances brass casks centilitre chapter comparison Congress contain copies county sealer county standards cubic inches custom-houses décilitre delivered diameter dry measure Dycas enacted entitled An act established Fahrenheit February 21 fixed France furnished gallon gaugers gauging governor Grains grammes half bushel Half gall Half pint hydrometers instruments June kilogramme length liquid litre March 13 March 22 metre millimetre Passed April passed February Passed March peck pounds procure Quart ratchet-wheel regulate weights relation to weights Revised Statutes scale screw sealer sealer of weights Secretary seed standard of weights standard weights standard yard Temp temperature thermometer town standards tracer Treasury Department tried and sealed troy ounce troy weights United States standards verification weights and mea weights and measures weights lost
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Page 70 - 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 83 - 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 88 - 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 hereby is, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards...
Page 52 - 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 84 - Hungarian grass seed, orchard grass seed, osage orange seed shall be sold by the bushel, and no special agreement as to the measure or weight thereof shall be made by the parties, the measure thereof shall be ascertained by weight and shall be computed as follows...
Page 51 - ... measured, to be the limit of the base of the cone, and such cone to be as high as the article will admit.
Page 52 - ... 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 77 - 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 88 - Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards, and now either made or in progress of manufacture for the use of the several custom-houses, and for other purposes, to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States, respectively, to the end that a uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States.
Page 4 - A standard half bushel, with a ground glass cover, in its case, 1 . The actual standard of length^ of the United States, is a brass scale of eighty-two inches in length, prepared for the survey of the coast of the United States, by Troughton of London., and deposited in the Office of Weights and Measures. The temperature at which this scale is a standard is 62° Fahrenheit, and the yard measure is between the 27th and 63d inches of the scale.