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Excerpt from International Exchanges: Letter to the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Chairman of the Committee of Commerce in the United States' Senate by Alexander Vattemare; Accompanied by an Historical Popular Description in English and French of the Metrical Decimal System
Central Agency for International exchanges. December, 12. 1853.
It was by the initiative of the Committee of commerce and by a resolution (approved June, 30, 18148) that Congress entrusted to me a complete series of the United States standard weights and measures to be presented to the Government of France. It is through the same Committee therefore that I have to convey the grateful acknowledgments I am to address to Con1 gress in the name of the french Government.
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