United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 7
No. 7. A Resolution providing for the distribution of weights and measures.
A complete set of such weights and measures as are intended for custom-houses to be delivered to each State.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards, and now either made or in the progress of manufacture for the use of the several custom-houses, and for other purposes, to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States.
Approved, June 14, 1836.