Standard weights and measures in Philippine Islands.
Section 125
SEC. 125. Standard weights and measures in Philippine Islands.—The weights and measures to be used throughout the Philippine Islands are those of the metric system, with the following units: (a) The unit of length is the standard meter, being the one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to (b) The unit of area is either the square meter or an area of one hundred square meters known as the are; (c) The unit of cubical contents or capacity is either the cubic meter or the one-thousandth part thereof known as the liter; (d) The unit of weight is the gram; The length of the standard meter shall be determined for the Philippine Islands by the length at the temperature of zero degrees centigrade of the fundamental standard measure Numbered Seventy-one, now preserved in the Bureau of Science and certified to by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. The weight of the standard gram shall be determined for Philippine Islands by the weight at Manila of one-millionth of a cubic meter of pure water at the temperature of four degrees centigrade, or the one-thousandth part of the standard kilogram certified to by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, designated by the symbol "L" and now preserved in the Bureau of Science.