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Report of the secretary of state, upon weights and measures : prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of representatives of the fourteenth of December, 1819 : February 22, 1821 : read, and ordered to lie on the table.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Department of State, issuing body.
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, author.
- Series:
- House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 16th Congress, 2nd session, no. 109.
- [16th Congress, 2nd session, House. ; doc. no.] 109
- Standardized Title:
- Report upon weights and measures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weights and measures--United States.
- Weights and measures.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : tables ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Washington : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1821.
- Notes:
- Printed also as: Senate document 119, 16th Congress, 2d session. (In "Tables of and annotated index to the congressional series of United States public documents prepared in the Office of the superintentdent of documents ... Washington, 1902" the erroneous statement is made on p. 17: A report of sec'y of state on weights and measures, which appears as H. doc. 109, is indexed as no. 119 of this [Senate] series, but was never printed by as such).
- Printed also, with document number, under title: Report upon weights and measures, by John Quincy Adams, secretary of state of the United States. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817. Washington, Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1821.
- Papers in the Appendix (p. 137-241) include tables of weights and measures as used in the United States, and laws of the several states, 1734-1819.
- House document no., printed at head of each page: 109.
- Local Notes:
- Way copy has manuscript notes in pencil on page [2] of cover; manuscript note in pencil (series statement) at head of page 3; a few manuscript underlines and marginal marks in pencil in text.
- Other Format:
- Online version: United States. Department of State. Report upon weights and measures. Report of the secretary of state, upon weights and measures, prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of representatives of th fourteenth of December, 1819. February 22, 1821.
- OCLC:
- 4935960
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