774 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 376

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 19 of Article 97 of Bagby's Code of
the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, title "Weights and Meas-
ures, " as said section was amended by Chapter 802 of the
Acts of 1914, be. and the said section is hereby, repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as -to read as follows:

Section 19, The Standard barrel for the measurement of
all green peas, or beans in the hull for which a heaping meas-
ure is now given, shall be of the following dimensions, namely:
diameter of said barrel at the top shall be eighteen and three-
fourth inches inside the staves, the diameter at the bottom
inside the staves shall be sixteen and one-fourth inches, and the
depth of said barrel shall be twenty-six inches inside, and to
contain in all six thousand two hundred and fifty-three and
three-fourth cubic inches, measurement by said barrel to be
struck measure. The dimensions of any barrel so used shall be
stamped by the inspector of weights and dry measures of the
City of Baltimore upon the same in three conspicuous places
and any person using a barrel for the measurement of peas,
beans and like farm products without being so stamped shall be
fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars, said fines to be collected as other fines are
now collected.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from June first, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 376.

AN ACT to continue in existence the Educational Survey Com-
mission created by Chapter 844 of the Acts of 1914, in
order that said Commission, in conformity with said Act,
may continue its survey so as to include the higher educa-
tional institutions of the State of Maryland; to endow said
Commission with all the necessary power and authority to
make such & survey, and to appropriate a sum of money for
the expenses of said commission.

WHEREAS, by Chapter 844 of the Acts of 1914 the General
Assembly of Maryland created a Commission for the purpose
of making a comprehensive study of the public school system