Chap. 491.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of chapter 86 of the code
of Virginia, relating to the standard of cord measure and of agricultural pro-
ducts, in relation to standard weight of cotton seed.

Approved February 24, 1598.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one thousand nine hundred and thirteen of chapter eighty-six of the
code of Virginia, relating to the standard of cord measure and of agri-
cultural products, in relation to standard weight of cotton seed, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1913. Standard of cord measure and of agricultural products.—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, tan-bark, or other things subject to such
measurements, the foregoing shall be the true and legal standard, any
usage, by-law or ordinance of any corporation, railroad or other com-
pany 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 seed, 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; cornmeal, fifty pounds;
dried apples, twenty-eight pounds; dried peaches (peeled), forty pounds;
dried peaches (unpeeled), thirty-two pounds; flax seed, fifty-six pounds;
hemp seed, forty-four pounds; herds-grass (or red top) seed, twelve
pounds; Hungarian grass seed, forty-eight pounds; lime (unslacked ),
elzhty pounds; malt, thirty-eight pounds; millet seed, fifty pounds;
oats, thirty pounds; onions, fifty-seven pounds; onions (top sets),
twenty-eight pounds; orchard-grass seed, fourteen pounds; osage orange
sced, thirty-four pounds; peanuts, twenty-two pounds; peas (black-
eved), sixty pounds; potatoes (Irish), fifty-six pounds; potatoes
(sweet), fifty-six 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; cot-
ton seed, thirty-two pounds.

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