Weights and Measures: ... Annual Conference of Representatives from Various States Held at the Bureau of Standards. 1905-10, Volumes 1-5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - Weights and measures |
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adopted apparatus appointed avoirdupois balances believe berries bill boxes Bureau of Standards bushel butter cents CHAIRMAN city sealer coal commissioner of weights commodities conference Congress county clerks county sealer court delegates deputy District of Columbia dry measures duties enforcement executive committee false weights fees FISCHER flour gentlemen give Government governor HASKELL HAZEN inspec inspection inspectors interest kilogram KJELLANDER legislature manufacturers Massachusetts matter meeting meter metric system motion national legislation Ohio ordinance organization ounces packages PALMER PETTIS pounds present prosecute pure-food laws quart question regard regulations REICHMANN represented Rhode Island RICHARDSON scales seal sealer of weights secretary read section sell short weight sold standards of weights statute STRATTON superintendent of weights Sutton Wall tested thing THOMAS tion to-day town troy pound uniform United Washington weight or measure weights and meas weights and measures York
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Page 7 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 46 - Crosse, then offered the following resolution, which was adopted: "Resolved, That, it is the sense of this...
Page 23 - Whoever, by himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person...
Page 89 - ... committed to his charge and for the surrender thereof immediately to his successor in office or to the person appointed by the proper authority to receive them. § 15. City sealer. There shall be a city sealer of weights and measures...
Page 10 - It is not the mere existence of the power, but its exercise, which is incompatible with the exercise of the same power by the states. It is not the right to establish these uniform laws, but their actual establishment, which is inconsistent with the partial acts of the states.
Page 16 - Act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the Weights and Measures of the Metric System...
Page 56 - States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
Page 10 - Philadelphia, shall be the standard troy pound of the mint of the United States, conformably to which the coinage thereof shall be regulated.
Page 65 - He, or his deputies or inspectors at his direction, shall at least once in two years visit the various cities and counties of the state in order to inspect the work of the local sealers and in the performance of such duties he may inspect the weights, measures, balances or any other weighing or measuring appliances' of any person, firm or corporation.
Page 5 - Southard, chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures...