Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§201 Sets of standard weights and measures for agricultural colleges
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 6— - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND STANDARDS GENERALLY › § 201
Summary
Send each State's land‑grant agricultural college one set of the official standard weights and measures and send one set to the Smithsonian; no set may cost over $200.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §201
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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.
Legislative History
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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. AppropriationA 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 StatesThe 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.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 201
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73