...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,...

...SYSTEM. AN ACT in relation to the Metric Weights and Measures. Be it enacted, í¡e., as foliotes : or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system, &c. / SECTION 3. The treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to procure duplicate sets of the weights...

...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...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,...

...the Revised Statutes of the Unked States provide that it shall be lawful throughout the United States to employ the weights and measures of the Metric System...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. According to the Revised Statutes the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in...

...done by Great Britain in 1864). By this Act " it is lawful throughout the United States of A merica to employ the weights and measures of the metric system...therein are weights or measures of the metric system." The same Act furnishes a table of equivalents for the different metric standards expressed in measures...

...States. (The same thing had been done by Great Britain in 1864). By this Act "it is lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and...invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measure? expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system." The same Act...

...Be it enacted, &c., That from and after tlic passage of this act it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and...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 therein...

...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...Metric System. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts,...

...this country by act of Congress of July 28, 1866. The act reads: " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and...therein are weights or measures of the metric system." By act of Congress the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to furnish each State with " one set...

...authorized the use of the French metric system of weights and measures in this country, and provided that no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable toobj jection, because the weights or measures exj pressed or referred to therein are weights or j...