§ 201. Sets of standard weights and measures for agricultural colleges

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce is directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United States, and also one set of the same for the use of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided, That the cost of each set shall not exceed $200.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1881
Mar. 3, 1881, No. 26, 21 Stat. 521 · 21 Stat. 521
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 201
Mar. 3, 1881, No. 26, 21 Stat. 521
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1881, No. 26, 21 Stat. 521

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor, and renamed Department of Commerce and Labor as Department of Commerce.

Transfer of Functions

Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred National Bureau of Standards from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.

Appropriation

A sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this section was appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated by act Mar. 3, 1881.

Distribution to States

The Secretary of the Treasury was directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each state for the use of the states by Res. June 14, 1836, No. 7, 5 Stat. 133, which provision was not incorporated into the Revised Statutes.

Credits

1881–1913 · 3 acts

1881Mar. 3, 1881, No. 26, 21 Stat. 521
1903Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §§ 4, 10, 32 Stat. 826, 829
1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.

Show as published

(Mar. 3, 1881, No. 26, 21 Stat. 521; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §§ 4, 10, 32 Stat. 826, 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)