CHAPTER 311.

Passed Feb.
18,1867.

AN ACT to repeal section twenty of article
ninety-six of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled, Weights and Measures, and to re-enact
the same with an amendment.

Sections re-
pealed and re-
enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That section twenty of article
ninety-six of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled, "Weights and Measures,"be and the
same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted as fol-
lows :

Size and di-
mensions.

Section 20. The size and dimensions of the
corn-barrel measure shall be as follows : twenty-
one inches in diameter (clear of staves) at the bot-
tom, (and twenty-three inches in diameter, clear
of staves) and shall hold five struck bushels of
corn, and all the lime sold in this State, or deliv-
ered in this State to any person or persons, shall
be measured in a bushel measure of the following
dimensions, viz : twelve inches (clear of staves) at
the bottom, and fifteen inches in diameter (clear
of staves) at the top, and shall be fifteen high in-
side perpendicular measure, and in all cases where
the lime has already slacked, it shall require two
such bushels to make one bushel of quick lime ;
any person violating the provisions of this section
shall, on conviction in any Court of this State, or
before any 'Justice of the Peace, be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, one-half to the informer, and the other half
to go to the Public School Fund of the State. •

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.