THE METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS k^d MEASURES, 



WITH TABLES INTENDED ESPECIALLY FOE THE USE OF TEACHERS AND 

 WllH lAOUi^ AUTHORS OF ARITHMETICS. 



PREPARED BY PROP. H. A. NEWTON, OP TALE COLLEGE. 



While thh pavt of the appendix to the Annual Report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution was passing through the V^^^^'^^^^'^^'^Z^^^ 

 tioas, pertaining to the French system of weights and measures, 

 were adopted by both houses : 



AN ACT to anlhorize the u» of the metric system of weights and measures. 

 Be it enacted ly tie Senate and House of Representative,: of the Umted 

 sZofA^erJi, Congress assertbled, That from and after the passage of 

 frrct "it shall be lawful throagbout the Uait»d States of Amenca to employ 

 h^ weights and n,eaBures of the mettle system ; and no contract, or deahug, or 

 pi al fin any coavt, shall be deemed taabd, or liable to object.on, because 

 Te weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are we.ghts or measures 



of the metric system. , i i i „<.^ „„ 



Sec 2 And he U further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto an- 

 nexed "shall be recognized, in the construction of contracts, and in all legal pro- 

 ceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use m 

 he United States, the eVvaJents of the weights and measures expressed there- 

 in in terms of the metric system ; and said tables may be lawfully used for com- 

 puting, determining, and expressing in customary weights and measures the 

 weights and measures of the metric system. 



AN ACT to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to each State one set of the 

 AN ACT to enable^ m^^^^^ ^^.^.y ^_^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^. ^^^ ^^^^^^ system. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tU ^-^f^'^^'^ 

 of America in Cngress asse.nUed, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and 

 he t lereby. authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be dehvered to 

 the governor thereof, one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric 

 system, for the use of the States respectively. 



AN ACT to authorize the use in post offices of weights of the denomination of grams. 

 Be it enacted by the -Senate and House of Representatives of the Umted States 

 of America in Congress assemUed, That the Postmaster General be, and he is 

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