Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time
§ 234. Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity
Statutory text
The standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heads, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: Provided, That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. The standard barrel for cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of staves, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, sixteen and one-fourth inches; distance between heads, twenty-five and one-fourth inches; circumference of bulge, fifty-eight and one-half inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch.
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. 63–158 § 1 · 38 Stat. 1186
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 234
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, § 1, 38 Stat. 1186.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, § 1, 38 Stat. 1186.)
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Credits
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, § 1, 38 Stat. 1186.)