The Metric System: Hearings Before a Subcommittee... on S. 22671922 - Всего страниц: 439 |
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Стр. 239 - 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 to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system.
Стр. 215 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them 'which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Стр. 247 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Стр. 257 - The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures of the House of Representatives is again considering the subject of the adoption of the metric system...
Стр. 2 - person" as used in this Act shall be construed to import both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and shall include corporations, companies, societies and associations. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
Стр. 2 - Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any corporation, company, society, or association, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission,, or failure of such corporation, company, society, or association as well as that of the person.
Стр. 87 - The entire metric system of weights and measures is based upon a fundamental nnit called a meter, which is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is the principal unit of linear measure.
Стр. 20 - APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT 20 grains = 1 scruple. 3 scruples = 1 dram. 8 drams = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Стр. 216 - ... every species of property; to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to the researches of the antiquarian, to the navigation of the mariner, and the marches of the soldier; to all the exchanges of peace, and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even to read...
Стр. 113 - Delambre found the quarter of the meridian equal to 5,130,740 toises, which result was adopted by the legislative body on the fourth Messidor of the year VII (June 22, 1799). The same measure of length served also as a basis for establishing the unit of weight called a gram, adopted by the law of the eighteenth Germinal, year III. This is the weight, in a vacuum, of a cubic centimeter, of distilled water, taken at its maximum density, which corresponds to the temperature of 4° centigrade above zero....