Chap. 167.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 88 of
the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved February 13, 1877,
in relation to weights and measures.

Approved March 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
eight of cbapter eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, edition
of eighteen hundred and seventv-three, as amended by an
act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, 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,
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
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 seed,
fourteen pounds; buckwheat, fifty-two pounds; chestnuts,
fifty-seven pounds; clover seed, sixty pounds; coro (snel'ed)
fifty-six pounds; corn ge the ear), reventy pounds; corn-
meal, 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 (un-
slacked), eighty pounds; malt, thirty-eight pounds; millet
seed, fifty pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds; onions, fifty-
seven pounds; onions, top-sets), twenty-eight pounds; or-
chard grass seed, fourteen pounds; osage orange seed, thirty-
four pounds; peanuts, twenty-two pounds; peas (black-eyed)
sixty pounds; Potatoes (Irish), sixty pounds; potatoes (sweet),
fifty-six pounds; plastering hair, eight pounds; rye, fifty-six
pounds; salt, fifty pounds; stone coal, eighty pounds; timo-
thy seed, forty-five pounds; turnips, fifty-five pounds; wheat,
sixty pounds. )
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.