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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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WEIGHTS AND MEASUEES. 3039

An. Code, see. 24. 1914, ch. 802.

26. The standard weights for grain, hay, straw, produce, and mineral
coal for this State shall be as follows: Apples (dried) 28 pounds, (green)
50 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; dried 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; corn 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, 2240 pounds one ton;
charcoal, (commercially dry), 2748 cubic inches per bushel; cow peas, 60
pounds per bushel; flour, 196 pounds per barrel; flax seed, 56 pounds per
bushel; herd's grass seed, 45 pounds per bushel; Hungarian grass seed, 50
pounds per bushel; hemp seed, 44 pounds per bushel; hay, 2000 pounds
one ton; lime, 80 pounds per bushel; millet (German and American), 50
pounds per bushel; oats, 32 pounds per bushel; onions, 54 pounds per
bushel; orchard grass seed, 14 pounds per bushel; peaches (peeled), 40
pounds per bushel; peaches (unpeeled), 32 pounds per bushel; dried peas,
60 pounds per bushel; potatoes (sweet and Irish), 60 pounds per bushel;
peanuts, 22 pounds per bushel; rye, 56 pounds per bushel; red top grass
seed (chaff), 14 pounds per bushel; red top grass seed (fancy), 32 pounds
per bushel; rape, 50 pounds per bushel; straw, 2000 pounds one ton; salt
(coarse), 70 pounds per bushel; salt (fine), 56 pounds per bushel; sorghum,
50 pounds per bushel; timothy grass seed, 45 pounds per bushel; turnips,
60 pounds per bushel; wheat, 60 pounds per bushel.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1914, ch. 802.

27. All charges for freight, measurement, weighing, inspection, wharf-
age and commission on grain shall be made on the number of bushels as
ascertained by weight, and not by running measurement. Any person,
firm or corporation, or agent, employe, or officer of any person, firm or
corporation, violating any of the provisions of this Section, shall be fined
not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1914, ch. 802.

28. No person shall sell any package or parcel of cotton, woolen, or
other dry goods having any mark thereon or attached thereto indicating or
stating a greater number or a larger quantity than is actually contained
in such package or parcel; and any auctioneer, commission merchant or
dealer so selling, shall in each case forfeit and pay to the purchaser or
purchasers of each package or parcel double the value of the quantity of
goods, which on actual measurement shall be found there is wanting in any
such package or parcel to make up the number of yards or quantity marked
thereon. All sums not exceeding one hundred dollars forfeited and payable
under this Section shall be recoverable by the purchaser or purchasers before
a Justice of the Peace as other debts; and all sums exceeding one hundred

 

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