Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 3 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 391. Ascertainment of duties on grain
Statutory text
For the purpose of estimating the duties on importations of grain, the number of bushels shall be ascertained by weight, instead of by measuring; and sixty pounds of wheat, fifty-six pounds of corn, fifty-six pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirty-two pounds of oats, sixty pounds of peas, and forty-two pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel.
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.
(R.S. § 2919.)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 391
(R.S. § 2919.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2919.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2919 derived from act July 18, 1866, ch. 201, § 38, 14 Stat. 187.
Credits
(R.S. § 2919.)