| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1857 - 808 pages
...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 »nd measures may be established thoughout the United States. Approved June 14, 1836. DEPARTMENT OF... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 944 pages
...measures adopted as standards .... to be delivered to the governor of each state in the Union .... for the use of the states respectively, to the end...standard of weights and measures may be established." These, and also standard balance as afterward ordered, have been supplied аз directed. By many of... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...custom-houses, 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...measures may be established throughout the United States. Resolution of Congress, June 14, 1830. 4 Story's Laws, 2519.— SHARSWOOD. 28 In considering the prices... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 874 pages
...measures adopted as standards .... to be delivered to the governor of each state in the Union .... for the use of the states respectively, to the end...standard of weights and measures may be established." These, and also standard balances as afterward ordered, have been supplied as directed. By many of... | |
| Commercial law - 1868 - 988 pages
...Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States. No. 207. — JUNE 23, 1836. Stat. at Large, CHAP. CX V. — An Act to regulate the Deposits of the... | |
| John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...purposes, to be delivered to the governor of each state in the Union, or to such person as he may appoint, for the use of the states respectively, to the end...measures may be established throughout the United States. 4. MEASURES OF LENGTH. 12 inches = 1 foot. 3 feet = 1 yard. 5} yards = 1 rod or pole. 40 poles = 1... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1871 - 454 pages
...that the governor of each State should be furnished with a complete set of such weights and measures " for the use of the States respectively, to the end...may be established throughout the United States." But no compulsory law establishing either, except at the mint and custom-houses, has been passed. Some... | |
| Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the states respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States." 5 Stat. at Large, 133. facie most proper for a common measure, because it can easily be reduced to... | |
| Criticism - 1879 - 876 pages
...Treasury was directed to furnish complete sets of all these standards to the Governors of each State, &c., "to the end that a uniform standard of weights and...may be established throughout the United States." The standards were accordingly supplied, and by statutory enactment in all the States have become the... | |
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