Chap. 96.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15 of Chapter 216 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1924, approved March 14, 1924, relating to weights and measures,
the section prescribing standard weights. [H B 230}

Approved March 4, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifteen of chapter two hundred sixteen of the Acts
of Assembly of nineteen hundred twenty-four, approved March fourteen,
nineteen hundred twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 15. <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, rail-
road or other company to the contrary, notwithstanding. And in all
sales by weights of the agricultural products hereinafter named, the num-
ber of pounds per bushel as stated in the following schedule shall be the
true and legal standard: Alfalfa seed, sixty pounds; barley, forty-eight
pounds; navy and soja beans, sixty pounds; blue grass seed, fourteen
pounds; bran, twenty pounds; buckwheat, forty-eight pounds: carrots,
fifty pounds; castor beans, forty-six pounds; chestnuts, fifty-seven
pounds ; clover seed, sixty pounds; coal (anthracite), eighty pounds; corn
(in ear), seventy pounds; corn (shelled), fifty-six pounds; corn meal,
forty-eight pounds; dried apples, twenty-eight pounds; dried peaches
(peeled), forty pounds; dried peaches (unpeeled), thirty-two pounds :
flaxseed, fifty-six pounds; hemp seed, forty-four pounds; Hungarian
grass seed, forty-eight pounds; lime (unslacked), eighty pounds: malt,
thirty-eight pounds; millet seed, fifty pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds ;
onions, fifty-seven pounds; orchard grass seed, fourteen pounds: pars-
nips, fifty pounds; Virginia peanuts, twenty-two pounds; Spanish pea-
nits, thirty pounds: peas (black-eye and other cow-peas), sixty pounds :
potatoes (Irish), sixty pounds; potatoes (sweet), fifty-six pounds ; plas-
tering hair, eight pounds; red top grass seed, forty pounds; rye, fifty-six
pounds; salt, fifty pounds; timothy seed, forty-five pounds; tomatoes,
sixty pounds; turnips, fifty-five pounds; wheat, sixty pounds: cotton
seed, thirty pounds; milo maise, fifty-six pounds.