Chap. 90.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 88, Code
of 1873, in relation to Weights and Measures.

Approved February 13, 1877.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
eight of chapter eighty-cight of the Code of eighteen bun-
dred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 8. A cord contains one hundred and twenty-eight cubic
feet, being eight feet long, four feet high and four feet wide,
or the equivalent thereof; and in all measurements of wood,
tanbark, or other things subject to such measurement, the
foregoing shall be the true and Jegal standard; any usage,
by-law or ordinance of any corporation, railroad or other
company to the contrary notwithstanding. And in all sales
by weight, of the agricultural products hereinafter named,
the number of pounds per bushel, as stated in the following
schedule, shall be the true and legal standard: Barley—
forty-eight pounds; beans (white)—sixty pounds; blue grass
secd—fourteen pounds; buckwheat—fifty-two pounds; chest-
nuts—fifty-seven pounds; clover seed—sixty pounds; corn
(shelled)—fifty-six pounds; corn (in the ear)—seventy pounds ;
corn meal—fifty pounds; dried apples—twenty-eight pounds;
dried peaches (peeled)—forty pounds; dried peaches (un-
peeled)—thirty-t wo pounds; flaxseed—fifty-six pounds; hemp
seed—forty-four pounds; herd’s grass or red tops—twelve
pounds; Hungarian grass—forty-eight pounds; lime (un-
slacked)—eighty pounds; malt—thirty-eight pounds; millet
seed—fifty pounds; oats—thirty-two pounds; onions—fifty-
seven pounds; onions (top-sets)—t wenty-eight pounds; orchard
grass seed—fourteen pounds; osage orange seed—thirty-four
pounds; peanuts—twenty-two pounds; peas (black-eyed)—
sixty pounds; potatocs—sixty pounds; plastering hair—
eight pounds; rye—fifty-six pounds; salt—fifty pounds;
stone coal—eighty pounds; timothy seed—forty-five pounds;
turnips—fifty-five pounds; wheat—sixty pounds.