Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 232. Barrels below standard; marking
Statutory text
All barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to be below standard if the barrel bears any statement, design, or device indicating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as defined in section 231 of this title, and the capacity of the barrel is less than the capacity prescribed by said section, unless the barrel shall be plainly marked on end and side with words or figures showing the fractional relation which the actual capacity of the barrel bears to the capacity prescribed by said section. The marking required by this section shall be in block letters of size not less than seventy-two point (one-inch) gothic.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 62–273 § 4 · 37 Stat. 250
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 232
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 4, 37 Stat. 251.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 4, 37 Stat. 251.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That all barrels packed with apples shall be deemed to be Requirements for barrels. below standard if the barrel bears any statement, design, or device indicating that the barrel is a standard barrel of apples, as herein defined, and the capacity of the barrel is less than the capacity prescribed by section one of this Act, unless the barrel shall be plainly marked on end and side with words or figures showing the fractional relation which the actual capacity of the barrel bears to the capacity prescribed by section one of this Act. The marking required by this Marking. paragraph shall be in block letters of size not less than seventy-two point one-inch gothic.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 4, 37 Stat. 251.)