 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 - Seite 423von United States - 1886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Oscar Oldberg - 1885 - 260 Seiten
...its value. (169). 171. Metric System Legalized. — By act of July 28, 1866, it was enacted that " it shall be lawful throughout the United States of...are weights or measures of the metric system." (Sec. 3569, Rev. Stat., US) 172. Legally Established Equivalents. — Tables of equivalents showing the relation... | |
 | Oscar Oldberg - 1885 - 272 Seiten
...nowhere used outside of this country, there is no law at present in force fixing its value. (169). United States of America to employ the weights and...are weights or measures of the metric system." (Sec. 3569, Rev. Stat., US) 172. Legally Established Equivalents. — Tables of equivalents showing the relation... | |
 | California - 1886 - 964 Seiten
...metric system in the United States was authorized and a table adopted. Those sections are: " SEC. 3569. It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...objection because the weights or measures expressed or and measures now in use in the United States, referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric... | |
 | Lewis Heyl - 1886 - 518 Seiten
...net profits, if any, shall be paid, from time to time, into the Treasury. (2259.) 2117. SEC. 3569. It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...metric system ; and no contract or dealing, or pleading iu any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed... | |
 | California, Frank Prentiss Deering - 1886 - 958 Seiten
...pleading in shall be deemed invalid or liable to 472 CHAP. VIIL] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. §§ 3210, 3211 because the weights or measures expressed or referred...are weights or measures of the metric system. "SEC. 3370. The tables in tho schedules hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - 1891 - 1354 Seiten
...surface and weight founded upon the meter as a unit.4 And it is lawful throughout the United States to employ the weights and measures of the metric system...because the weights or measures expressed or referred to in them are weights or measures of the metric system.5 MEXICAN GRANTS.— See SPANISH GRANTS. MICHAELMAS.—... | |
 | Stephen Roper - 1889 - 422 Seiten
...legalized in the United States, by an Act of Congress, passed July 28, 1866, in which it is provided that " It shall be lawful throughout the United States of...invalid or liable to objection because the weights and measures expressed or referred to therein are weights and measures of the metric system." o <J... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association - 1890 - 884 Seiten
...by special enactments in both countries. By act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, it was declared "lawful throughout the United States of America to...employ the weights and measures of the Metric System." (RS Sec. 3569.) The same law (RS Sec. 3570) undertakes to fix the values of the respective metric units,... | |
 | John Ordronaux - 1891 - 716 Seiten
...States, not as an obligatory, but only as an alternative standard, and it was thereby enacted that " no contract or dealing or pleading in any Court shall...or referred to therein are weights or measures of Metric system.2" In all the States, the system of weights and measures has been governed by a standard... | |
 | 1891 - 828 Seiten
...predicting its future extension over the world. In 186U a law was passed by Congress, providing that "it shall be lawful throughout the United States of...the weights and measures of the metric system." And a joint resolution was adopted by Congress, directing the Secretary of the Treasury -'to furnish to... | |
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