1478 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

inside measurement; circumference at the bulge, sixty-four
inches (64), outside measurement.

SEC. 23. Any person, firm or corporation in this State who
manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or has in his, her, or its
possession barrels, baskets, or boxes of the capacities defined
in Sections 18, 21 and 22 of this Article, and if of less capacities
than are defined in said Sections 18, 21 and 22, must plainly
mark in three conspicuous places on the exterior sides of said
barrels, baskets, or boxes, in letters not less than one and one-
half inches high the word "Short." Any person, firm, or cor-
poration, 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 one dollar, nor more than five dollars for
each offense; and the use, sale, or manufacture of each barrel,
basket, box, half-box, or half-basket, not marked as designated
herein shall constitute a separate offense.

SEC. 24. 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; rep top grass seed (fancy), 32 pounds
per bushel; rape, 50 pounds per bushel; straw, 2000 pounds one