Weights and Measures of New York, 821 



ounces, of which parts the cubic foot of distilled water, under the 

 same circumstances mentioned in the eighth section, shall weigh 

 one thousand. 



"11. The unit or standard of measures of capacity, as well for 

 liquids as for dry commodities, not measured by heaped measure, 

 from which all other measures of capacity shall be derived and 

 ascertained, shall be the gallon, which shall be a vessel of such 

 capacity, as to contain at the mean pressure of the atmosphere, at 

 the level of the sea, ten pounds of distilled water, at its maximum 

 density. 



" 12. Such standard gallon shall be made of brass, and in case 

 of loss, shall be restored according to the proportions mentioned in 

 the last section, under the direction of the State Sealer of weights 

 and measures. 



** 13. All other measures of capacity shall be derived from the 

 gallon, by continual multiplication or division by the number two, 

 being in the decending scale, half gallons, quarts, pints, half pints, 

 and gills, and in the ascending scale, pecks, half bushels, and 

 bushels. 



*' 14. The bushel shall contain, at the mean pressure of the 

 atmosphere, at the level of the sea, eighty pounds of distilled water, 

 at its maximum density, 



" 15. The standard measure of capacity for coal, ashes, marl, 

 manure, Indian corn in the ear, fruit and roots, of every kind, and 

 for all other commodities, commonly sold by heaped measure, shall 

 be the aforesaid bushel ; and the measures used to measure such 

 commodities, shall be made round, with a plain and even bottom, 

 and shall be of the following diameters at top, measured from out- 

 side to outside ; the bushel, nineteen and a half inches ; the half 

 bushel, fifteen and a half inches ; and the peck, twelve and a third 

 Inches. 



*' 16. All commodities sold by heaped measure, shall be duly 

 heaped up in the Ibrm of a cone, the outside of the measure by 

 which the same shall be measured, to be the extremity of the base 

 of such cone, and such cone to be as high, as the articles to be 

 measured, will admit. 



*' 17. The measures used for measuring dry commodities not 

 heaped, shall be stricken with a round stick or roller, straight, and 

 of the same diameter from end to end. 



*' 18. All contracts hereafter to be executed, made within this 

 State, for any work to be done, or for anything to be sold, deli- 

 vered, done, or agreed for, by weight or measure, shall be taken 

 and construed to be made according to the standard weight and 

 measures thus ascertained. 



