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law fixinj:^ the value of their units, but the Secretary of the Treasury 

 was authorized to establish and construct standards for use iu the 

 various Departments of the Government. Uniformity has followed on 

 account of the universal adoption of these standards by the several 

 States. 



The Government is itself a large consumer of electricity and electrical 

 machinery, and for its own protection it is important that units of 

 measure be adopted. With the ap])roval, therefore, of the honorable 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, tlie formal adoi)tion by the Oftice of 

 Standard Weights and Measures of the names and values of units of 

 electrical measure as given above, the same being in accord with the 

 recommendations of the International Congress of Electricians of 1893, 

 has been announced. 



