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[CITE: 15USC201]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND STANDARDS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 201. Sets of standard weights and measures for agricultural 
        colleges
        
    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.

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

                         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.
