 | Thomas Wallace Wright - Mechanics - 1896 - 418 pages
...of the metric system. " The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to furnish each State, to be delivered to the Governor thereof,...Metric System for the use of the States respectively." This was the first general legislation upon the subject in the United States, and the metric system... | |
 | Henry James Chaney - Metric system - 1897 - 218 pages
...same date the Secretary of the Treasury was " authorised and directed to " furnish each State with one set of the standard weights " and measures of the metric system." Tables of equivalents are also recognised in the.Act. 8. STANDARDS OP INDIA, Ac. India. In India native... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...and measures." " A Joint Resolution to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to each State one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system." "A Bill to authorize the use in post-offices of weights of the denomination of grams." July 27th, on... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1902 - 254 pages
...Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor...metric system for the use of the States, respectively." (Joint resolution of Congress, approved July 27, 1866.) CONGRESS JOINS IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONA!,... | |
 | Engineering - 1902 - 992 pages
...authorized and directed to furnish to each State, or to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of standard weights and measures of the metric system, for the use of the States respectively." Here again the selection of the standards necessary to earn- out the foregoing resolutions was left... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Standardization - 1951 - 1200 pages
...Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States, respectively. Joint Resolution... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Standards - Physics - 1905 - 542 pages
...Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States, respectively. The work... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Metric system - 1906 - 64 pages
...Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor...metric system for the use of the States, respectively." (Joint resolution of Congress approved July 27, 1866.) UNITED STATES JOINS IN ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Metric system - 1906 - 28 pages
...Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor...metric system for the use of the States, respectively." (Joint resolution of Congress approved July 27, 1866.) UNITED STATES JOINS IN ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Wright - Mechanics - 1906 - 418 pages
...measures of the metric system. "The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to furnish each State, to be delivered to the Governor thereof,....Metric System for the use of the States respectively." This was the first general legislation upon the subject in the United States, and the metric system... | |
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Be it 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 is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor... 
