15 U.S.C. § 201 — Sets of standard weights and measures for agricultural colleges

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The Secretary of Commerce must send a full set of standard weights and measures to each qualifying state. These states are ones that received federal land grants for agricultural colleges. The Smithsonian Institution gets one set too, and each set can cost no more than $200.

The Secretary of Commerce must arrange for a complete set of all official weights and measures standards to be delivered to the governor of each state that received a federal land grant to fund agricultural colleges. This delivery goes to each of those states. The Secretary must also deliver one set to the Smithsonian Institution. There is a cost limit: each set delivered under this section cannot cost more than $200.

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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.

Source credit: (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.)

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1903Enacted · Act of Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552 · 32 Stat. 826, 829
1913Amended · Act of Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141 · 37 Stat. 736

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