...the National House Dec. 16. It was duly referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures. Government of the United States, in the transaction...use the weights and measures of the Metric System." The bill is better than recent former ones in that two objectionable features have been omitted, viz.,...

...of the Government of the United Stales, in the transaction of business requiring the use of weights and measurement, shall employ and use the weights and measures of the metric system. Those who are familiar with the former bills which have been introduced will remember that "the measurements...

...of the United States, In the transaction of business requiring the use of weights and measurements, shall employ and use the weights and measures of the Metric System. Resolved — Fifth : That we extend to the California Academy of Science! our sympathy on account of...

...would like to ask a question in that connection. This bill, you must observe, uses the language that in the transaction of business requiring the use of weight and measurement the Government shall employ and use the weights and measures of the metric system. That apparently...

...assembled, That from and after the first of July 1908, all of the Departments of the Government of the US, in the transaction of business requiring the use of...measurement, shall employ and use the weights and measurcs of the metric System.«: Eine eingehende Erörterung und Zusammenfassung aller Gründe, die...

...system, not necessarily in their v.-ork of construction or design or experiment or manufacture, but only in the transaction of business requiring the use of weight and measurement, leaving it to the future to determine just what those words, " transaction of business," mean. The...

...required to permit the use of any kind of machinery that may be desired. The bill simply prescribes that in the transaction of business requiring the use of weight and measurement the departments of the government shall use the weights and measures of the metric system. Under this...

...consideration a bill before Congress proposing that, from July I, 1908, all the departments of the government of the United States, in the transaction...use the weights and measures of the metric system. Dr. Bell gave an exhaustive account of the anomalies of the British systems of measurements in use...

...assembled, That from and after the first of July, nineteen hundred and eight, all of the Departments of the Government of the United States, in the transaction...use the weights and measures of the metric system." The chairman of the committee has been most desirous of making it appear that this bill is altogether...

...: That from and after the first of July, nineteen hundred and eight, all of the Departments of the Government of the United States, in the transaction...requiring the use of weight and measurement, shall employ an«} use the weights and measures of the metric system. The committee of publicity of the American...