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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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2190 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. [ART. 97

quart, pint or half-pint basket or boxes shall have plainly branded or
marked thereon the name and address of its maker, and the words
"Maryland Standard Measure."

1910, ch. 353, sec. 21 (p. 327).

21. Whoever brands or marks on any barrel, basket, box, or package
or whoever offers for sale a produce or commodities in a barrel, basket,
box or package of a capacity less than is stamped thereon, except as pro-
vided in section 21* of this article, relating to short packages, shall for
each barrel, basket, box or package be fined and pay the sum of two
dollars, together with all costs of prosecution, one-half to go to the
informer and the other half to the public school fund of the county or
city.

1910, ch. 353, sec. 22 (p. 327).

22. All produce offered for gale within this State in any barrel,
basket, box or package of less capacity than the Maryland standard
barrel, basket, box or package multiplies thereof divisible by two, must
have plainly marked or stamped thereon, in three conspicuous and dif-
ferent places on each barrel, basket, box or package the following words.
in letters one inch high, "Short Measure."

1910, ch. 353, sec. 23 (p. 328).

23. Whoever offers for sale within the State of Maryland produce
or commodities in ban-els, baskets, boxes or packages of less than the
Maryland standard barrels, baskets, box or package, or multiples of
said, divisible by two, without having the words "Short Measure"
marked or stamped on each and every barrel, basket, box or package in
letters one inch high, as provided in section 21* of this article, shall, for
each barrel, basket, box or package, be fined and pay the sum of two dol- .
lars, together with all costs of prosecution, one-half to go the informer
and the other half to the public school fund of the county or city.

1910, ch. 353, sec. 24 (p. 328).

24. The standard weights for grain, hay, straw, produce and min-
eral coal for this State shall be as follows: Apples, dried, 28 pounds
per bushel; alsike clover seed, 60 pounds per bushel; alfalfa seed, 60
pounds per bushel; barley, 48 pounds per bushel; barley malt, 34
pounds per bushel; buckwheat, 48 pounds per bushel; blue grass seed,
14 pounds per bushel; beans, 60 pounds per bushel; bran, 20 pounds
per bushel; carrots, 50 pounds per bushel; corn (shelled), 56 pounds
per bushel; corn (on cob), 70 pounds per bushel; corn (on cob), 350
pounds per barrel; corn (shelled), 280 pounds per barrel; com meal,
48 pounds per bushel; clover seed, 60 pounds per bushel; castor
beans or seed, 50 pounds per bushel; coal or culm, 80 pounds
per bushel; coal, 2,240 pounds one ton; charcoal (commercially
dry), 2,748 cubic inches per bushel; cow peas, 60 pounds per

*Both the official acts and the original act as passed refer here to section
"21"; such reference is evidently, however, a typographical error, section 22
being no doubt intended.

 

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