Report of the secretary of state, upon weights and measures, prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House of representatives of th fourteenth of December, 1819. February 22, 1821.
Subtitle: Read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Contributors: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Series: [16th Cong., 2d sess. House.; Doc. no.] 109; House document (United States. Congress. House) ;; 16th Congress, 2nd sesion, no. 109.
Publisher: Printed by Gales & Seaton
Published: 1821
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Weights and measures -- United States
Notes: Printed also as: Senate document 119, 16th Congress, 2d session. (In "Tables of and annotated index to the congressional series of United States public documents prepared in the Office of the superintentdent of documents ... Washington, 1902" the erroneous statement is made on p. 17: A report of sec'y of state on weights and measures, which appears as H. doc. 109, is indexed as no. 119 of this [Senate] series, but was never printed by as such)
Printed also, with document number, under title: Report upon weights and measures, by John Quincy Adams, secretary of state of the United States. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817. Washington, Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1821.
Papers in the Appendix (p. 137-241) include tables of weights and measures as used in the United States, and laws of the several states, 1734-1819.
House document no., printed at head of each page: 109.