Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 208. Variations
Statutory text
In the practical use and application of the standard gauge esablished 1 in section 206 of this title a variation of 2½ percent, either way may be allowed.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “established”.
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.
Pub. L. 52–221 § 3 · 27 Stat. 746
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 208
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 3, 27 Stat. 746.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 3, 27 Stat. 746.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That in the practical use and application of the standard gauge hereby established a variation of two and one-half per cent, either way may be allowed.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 221, § 3, 27 Stat. 746.)