LAWS RELATING TO WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, AFFECT- 

 ING THE SALE OF HONEY 



CHAPTER 20 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS — GENERAL BUSINESS 



LAW 



Article 2 as amended by Chapters 187 and 470 of the Laws of 1910. 



ARTICLE 2. 



§ 2. Description of weights and measures. — The standard weights and 

 measures that were furnished to this state by the government of the United 

 States, in accordance with a joint resolution of congress, approved June 

 fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and consisting of one standard 

 yard measure and one set of standard weights, comprising one Troy pound, 

 and nine avoirdupois weights of one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, twenty- 

 five and fifty pounds respectively; one set of standard Troy ounce weights, 

 divided decimally from ten ounces to the one ten-thousandth of an ounce; 

 one set of standard liquid capacity measures, consisting of one wine gallon 

 of two hundred and tliirty-onc cubic inches, one-half gallon, one quart, one 

 pint and one-half pint measure; and one standard half bushel, containing 

 one thousand and seventy-five cubic inches and twenty one-hundredths of a 

 cubic inch, according to the inch hereby adopted as standard, and such new 

 weights, measures, balances and other apparatus as may be received from 

 the United States as standard weights, measures, balances and apparatus in 

 addition thereto or in renewal thereof as well as such weights, measures, 

 balances and apparatus as may be added by the state department of weights 

 and measures and verified by the national bureau of standards shall be the 

 standard of weights and measures throughout this state. (Amended by Laws 

 of 1910.) 



§ 4. Units of weight.— The units or standards of weight from which all 

 other weights shall be derived and ascertained, shall be the standard weights 

 designated in this article. The hundred-weight consists of one hundred 

 avoirdupois pounds and twenty hundred weight are a ton. In all transac- 

 tions relating to the sale or delivery of coal two tliousand avoirdupois 

 pounds in weiglit shall constitute a legal ton. (Amended by Laws of 1910.) 



§ 5. Units of capacity. — The units or standards of measure of capacity 

 for liquids from which all other measures shall be derived and ascertained 

 shall be the standards designated in this article. The barrel is equal to 

 thirty-one and one-half gallons and two barrels are a hogshead. The parts 

 of the liquid gallon shall be derived from the gallon by continual division 

 by the number two, so as to make half gallons, quarts, pints, half pints and 

 gills. The peck, half peck, quarter peck, quart, pint and half pint for 

 measuring commodities which are not liquids shall be derived from tlie half 

 bushel by successively dividing that measure by two. The standard of 

 measure for buying and selling strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cur- 

 rants, gooseberries, plums, cherries, cranberries and otlier small fruits shall 

 be the quart, which shall contain when even full sixty-seven and two-tenths 

 cubic inches; the pint, which when even full shall contain thirty -three and 



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