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Title 15 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME (§§ 201 - 267)
Subchapter VI - STANDARD BARRELS (§§ 231 - 242)
Section 231 - Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels
STANDARD BARRELS - 15 U.S.C. § 231 (2012)
§231. Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels
The standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches outside measurement, representing as nearly as possible seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches: Provided, That steel barrels containing the interior dimensions provided for in this section shall be construed as a compliance therewith.
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, §1, 37 Stat. 250.)
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