Standardization of Weights and Measures Used in Trade and Commerce, Hearings ..., on H.R. 4465 ..., Mar 28 and April 4, 1924 |
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adopted approval of types Articles of Confederation authority BEAN bill BLANCHARD BROOKS BRUMM Bureau of Standards CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON COINAGE Congress Constitution Cook CRAIG District enact enforce facturers Fairbanks scale favor Federal court Federal Government fix a standard fix the standard FLORIAN LAMPERT Fort Wayne gasoline gentlemen GIFFORD HINSMAN HOLBROOK honest Indiana KVALE LAMPERT legislation LOWREY manu manufacturers of scales matter measures departments measures officials measuring devices meters MOORE North Carolina pass penalty PERKINS piece of apparatus prosecution pump punishment question RANDOLPH PERKINS regulate require retailer scale manufacturers SCHAFER SCOTT WOLFF sell SMITH sold specifications standard of weights statement steam gauges tanks thereof thing TILSON tion to-day tolerances trade or commerce type of scale type of weight understand uniformity various violation Washington weight or measure weights and measures WEISINGER Wisconsin
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Page 54 - States a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation, which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the United States.
Page 67 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 1 - Vestal (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. If there is no objection, we will proceed...
Page 67 - States," and the supplementary act of March 3, 1825, defined and provided for the punishment of a large class of crimes other than those mentioned in the Constitution, and some of the punishments prescribed are manifestly not in aid of any single substantive power. No one doubts that this was rightfully done, and the power thus exercised has been affirmed by this court in United States v.
Page 5 - Nothing in this act shall be construed as limiting the power of the general assembly to repeal this act at any time.
Page 33 - Congress shall have power ... to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coins, 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 67 - Whenever the terms in which a power is granted to congress, or the nature of the power, require that it should be exercised exclusively by congress, the subject is as completely taken from the state legislatures as if they had been expressly forbidden to act on it.
Page 67 - to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States," and " to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
Page 67 - to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin"; the power was exclusive because the state 21Nettels, National Economy, p.
Page 67 - ... of circulating spurious coin, or for the origin of the right to punish that offense, either in the section of the statute before quoted, or in this clause of the Constitution. We trace both the offense and the authority to punish it to the power given by the Constitution to coin money, and to the correspondent and necessary power and obligation to protect and to preserve in its purity this constitutional currency for the benefit of the nation.