Weather Bureau

Its bulletins are not notice of rain, so as to make it negligent to unload goods on an open wharf; but the master of a ship is bound to take notice of information from the weather bureau of storms of great violence and extent, such as frequently occur on the Atlantic coast; The St Georg, 104 Fed. 898, 44 a C. A. 246. The work of the weather bureau is not of such reputed accuracy that its prognostications as to a coming flood can be made the basis of a recovery; they may be evidence, but they are not conclusive; Cunningham v. R. Co., 40 Pa. Super. Ct. 212. See Year Book (1903) U. S. Dept Agricult. 304. By a Michigan act, 1897, weather conditions are provable in civil cases by United States signal service records; so by a New York act of 1N97. In Vermont, an act of 1894 provides that weather records at the place where taken are admissible to prove weather conditions. Wherever there is a duty to record official doings, the record thus kept is admissible, whether prescribed by statute or implied from the nature of the office; Wigmore, Evid. § 1639. WED (Anglo-Sax.). A covenant or agreement; thus, a wedded husband.