From: NIST Laws and Metric Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:02 AM
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Cc: Bruce Barrow - NIST; Tom Coleman - NIST; Linda Crown - NISTSubject: Re: U.S. Customary UnitsThere is no Federal Standard for customary units because the use of those units reflect the measurements used in the marketplace. There are some specific methods of sale for customary units in NIST Handbook 130 under the Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation and Methods of Sale of Commodities Regulations. You will find them at http://www.nist.gov/owm
NBS SP 345-10 on page 34 states:
"This Act was passed on May 19,1828, and the U.S. had, after
45 years of independent existence, finally adopted a standard of
weight for its coins. It had also passed the first, and only, law of
the United States officially adopting a standard of the customary
system of weights and measures."
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Joseph B. Reid
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Toronto M5P 1C8
Telephone 416-486-6071
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