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History
Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants the U.S. Congress the power to To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. In accordance with that, on June 14, 1836, The U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a joint resolution establishing an U.S. Office of Weights and Measures in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. From that date until March, 1901, the Office of Weights and Measures was administered mostly by the U.S. Coast Survey within the U.S. Department of the Treasury.[1]
- ↑ There were some time periods during which the the Navy administered the U.S. Office of Weights and Measures
- ↑ A Historic Review of Weights and Measures in the United States