Chap. 177.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-eighth section of
chapter eighty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
in relation to the Measurement of Commercial and other Manures.

Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-eight of chapter eighty cighty-six of the Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-
enacted, so as to read as follows:

§ 48. All commercial manures, and artificially manufactured
or manipulated fertilizers, brought into or manufactured in
the state of Virginia, for sale, and sol@or kept for sale therein,
shall have permanently affixed to.every sack, bag, barrel,
box, or other package thereof,'a stamped or printed label,
which shall specify legibly the name or names of the manu-
facturer or manufacturers, his, her or their places of busi-
ness, the net weight of such sack, bag, barrel, box or other
package, the component parts of such manure or fertilizer,
the per centage, by wéight, which it contains of the follow-
ing constituents, viz: of phosphoric acid, soluble in pure cold
water; of phosphoric acid, insoluble in pure cold water ; of
available ammonia, potash and soda. And* where stable
manures, or commercial manures, other than such as are
sold or kept for sale in sacks, Bags, barrels, boxes or other
packages, are sold or bought in this state by the bushel, or by
the cart load, or where the same are upon sale, delivered
in this state, the standard of such measures shall be as fol-
lows, to wit: a bushel measure shall be no other than stave
measure, which shall be uniform in shape, and of the follow-
ing dimensions: the bottom to be sixteen and a half inches
across, from inside to inside; the top to be eighteen inches
from inside to inside, and twenty-one inches diagonal from
the inside chine to the top. And in the measurement of such
manures the tubs must be filled to a slight rise above the top.
All such measures must be branded with the initials of the
sealer of weights and measures of the county or corporation
where the buyer or seller, or either of them, may reside.
Twenty bushels of the measure above provided, shall consti-
tute a merchantable cart-load of such manures as are above
mentioned.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.