 That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the Metric System ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable...  The Navigation Laws of the United States - Page 423by United States - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Weights and measures - 1918 - 708 pages
...of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful throughout the United States of...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 in... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1918 - 262 pages
...by Congress, by section 3569 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. The metric system is extensively used in prescription work in drug stores, and the latest edition of... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1971 - 326 pages
...countries and to such other post offices as he believed expedient. (4) HR 596,3 a bill declaring it lawful throughout the United States of America "to...employ the weights and measures of the metric system." Further provisions specified that no contract dealing, or court proceeding could be deemed invalid... | |
 | George Koehler - Tariff - 1919 - 382 pages
...common use in the United States. It is provided, however, by Section 3569 of the Revised Statutes that: "It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...therein are weights or measures of the metric system." ยป Tables of weights and measures showing equivalents in metric terms for weights and measures in use... | |
 | Measuring instruments - 1919 - 276 pages
...by Congress, by section 3569 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...therein are weights or measures of the metric system. The metric system is extensively used in prescription work in drug stores, and the latest edition of... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 780 pages
...passed by Congress authorizing the use of the metric system in this country. This act l provided that it "shall be lawful throughout the United States of...the weights and measures of the metric system," and also provided for the establishment of a series of legal tables of equivalents between the English... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures - 1922 - 20 pages
...which reads : " Use of the metric system authorizes," and by the expression in the section reading : " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...employ the weights and measures of the metric system." The difference to which Sir JE Petavel refers is merely a difference between the bars used for comparison... | |
 | 1922 - 452 pages
...which reads : " Use of the metric system authorized," and by the expression in the section reading : " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...employ the weights and measures of the metric system." In spite of the fact that the law quoted on this subject is very clear and explicit, the impression... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures - 1922 - 630 pages
...which reads : " Use of the metric system authorized," and by the expression in the section reading : " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...employ the weights and measures of the metric system." In spite of the fact that the law quoted on th;s subject is very clear and explicit, the impression... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - Physics - 1923 - 858 pages
...Congress of 1866, which authorises the optional use of metric units, does so in the following terms : " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...employ the weights and measures of the metric system. . . . The tables in the schedule annexed shall be recognised ... as establishing in terms of the wetgJiU... | |
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