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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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20 20 H. 3, CAP. I, DAMAGES IN DOWER.
ty-three inches in diameter, clear of staves) and shall hold five struck
bushels of corn, and all the lime sold in this State or delivered 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 inside 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 dollars, one-half
to the informer, and the other half to go to the Public School Fund of the
State."
The Act of 1868, ch. 445,'1 provides that charges on grain shall be made
according to weight and not running measure.
20* By the Act of Congress, approved 28 July 1866,4 it is enacted that,
from and after the passage of the Act it shall be lawful throughout the
United States to employ the weights and measures of the metric system;
and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any Court, shall be deemed in-
valid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or
referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. And
tables of equivalents of the weights and measures now in use in terms of
the metric system are given in the Act. And by Joint Res. No. 93, ap-
proved 27 July 1866, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to furnish
to each State one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric
system for the use of the States respectively.5
'3'Repealed. See note 1 supra.
4 U. S. Comp. Stats., sec. 3569.
s By Act of Congress 1901, ch. 872, the National Bureau of Standards
was established, and by Act of Congress 1903, ch. 552, this bureau was
transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Com-
merce and Labor. U. S. Comp. Stats., sec. 3570.
STATUTES
-Made at MERTON Crastino Sancfi Vinecntii (Seil. 23 Jan.)
Anno 20 HEN. III., and Anno Dom. 1235.
CAP. I.
A Woman shall recover Damages in a Writ of Dower.

First, of Widows which af-
ter the death of their Hus-
bands arc deforced of their
Dowers, and cannot have their
De vidnis prime, quffi post
mortem virorum suorum ex-
pelluntur de dotibus suis &
dotes suas, vel quarenteuam

 

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