To the House of Representatives:
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to its resolution of the 12th instant, a report[7] from the Secretary of State.
R.B. HAYES.
WASHINGTON, November 20, 1877.
To the House of Representatives:
In answer to a joint resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th instant, requesting the opinions of the heads of the Departments respecting the obligatory use of the metrical system of weights and measures, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State.
R.B. HAYES.
WASHINGTON, November 27, 1877.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a declaration between the United States and the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the reciprocal protection of the marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, signed on the 24th of October, 1877.