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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time

§ 239. Sale in containers of less capacity than barrel

Statutory text

When lime is sold in interstate or foreign commerce in containers of less capacity than the standard small barrel, it shall be sold in fractional parts of said standard small barrel, and the net weight of lime contained in such container shall by stencil or otherwise be clearly marked thereon, together with the name of the manufacturer thereof, and the name of the brand, if any, under which it is sold, 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 § 3 · 39 Stat. 530

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 239

    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 3, 39 Stat. 530.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 3, 39 Stat. 530.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. When lime is sold in interstate or foreign commerce in containers of less capacity than the standard small barrel, it shall be sold in fractional parts of said standard small barrel, and the net weight of lime contained in such container shall by stencil or otherwise be clearly marked thereon, together with the name of the manufacturer thereof, and the name of the brand, if any, under which it is sold, 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, § 3, 39 Stat. 530.)

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