 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1878 - 1028 pages
...which "real estate" is defined in this country. Not only are lands purchased from the public uomain described in a simple decimal system of acres measured...in even feet, generally even tens of feet, as 50, GO, 80, 100, 150, &c. What adequate motive is thereto change these expressions into terms which are... | |
 | Engineering - 1879 - 550 pages
...hektar. Prof. Hilgard, Assistant in Charge of the TJ. S. Coast Survey Office, says (Part l,p. 24);. . "all the most valuable real estate, such as lots and...feet, generally even tens of feet, as 50, 60, 80, 100, 150, &c. What adequate motive is there to change these expressions into terms which are necessarily... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 780 pages
...practices in the United States, however, lands purchased from the public domain are today uniformly described in a simple decimal system of acres measured by square chains and decimal parts thereof, and urban real estate is usually laid off in "lots" of even feet, generally... | |
 | 1922 - 452 pages
...report dated March 21, 1878, on the obligatory use of the metric system for Government business: " Not only are lands purchased from the public domain...feet, generally even tens of feet, as 50, 60, 80. 100, 150. etc. What adequate motive is there to change these expressions into terms which are necessarily... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures - 1922 - 630 pages
...report dated March 21, 1878, on the obligatory use of the metric system for Government business : " Not only are lands purchased from the public domain...valuable real estate, such as lots and streets in cities, lias been laid off in this country in even feet, generally even tens of feet, as 50, 60. 80. 100, 150,... | |
 | Debates and debating - 1926 - 120 pages
...a report dated March 21, 1878, on the obligatory use of the metric system for government business: Not only are lands purchased from the public domain...been laid off in this country in even feet, generally eyen tens of feet, as 50, 60, 80, 100, 150, etc. What adequate motive is there to change these expressions... | |
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... statement by JE Hilgard, Assistant, United States Coast Survey, and Inspector, United States Standard Weights and Measures, who in response to a resolution by the House of Representatives submitted a report dated March 21, 1878, on the obligatory... 