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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time

§ 238. Penalty for selling in barrels not marked

Statutory text

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale lime imported in barrels from a foreign country, or to sell or offer for sale lime in barrels for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, unless there shall be stenciled or otherwise clearly marked on one or both heads of the small barrel the figures “180 lbs. net” and of the large barrel the figures “280 lbs. net” before the importation or shipment, and on either barrel in addition the name of the manufacturer of the lime and where manufactured, and, if imported, the name of the country from which it is imported.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 64–396 § 2 · 39 Stat. 530

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 238

    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 2, 39 Stat. 530.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 2, 39 Stat. 530.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale lime imported in barrels from a foreign country, or to sell or offer for sale lime in barrels for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, unless there shall be stencilled or otherwise clearly marked on one or both heads of the small barrel the figures “180 lbs. net” and of the large barrel the figures “280 lbs. net” before the importation or shipment, and on either barrel in addition the name of the manufacturer of the lime and where manufactured, and, if imported, the name of the country from which it is imported.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 2, 39 Stat. 530.)

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