74 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



(4412-10) SEC. TO. [Penalty; emergency.] AYhoever shall en- 

 - gage in the practice of veterinary medicine or surgery in violation of this- 

 act shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than ten dollars, nor 

 more than twenty-five dollars, and for the second offense not less than 

 fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in 

 the county jail not more than sixty days, or both. Provided, that nothing 

 in this act shall be construed to prohibit any veterinary advice or service 

 in cases of emergency if rendered by a person not entitled to practice 

 under this act. Nor shall it apply to animal castration and dehorning of 

 cattle. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



SEC. 4428. [Standards, those furnished by United States gov- 

 ernment; metric system.] The standard weights and measures furn- 

 ished the state of Ohio by the secretary of the treasury of the United 

 States, under a resolution of congress, approved June fourteenth, one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall be the legal standard of 

 weights and measures throughout the state : but nothing in this chapter 

 contained shall be construed to prevent the use of the weights and meas- 

 ures of the metric system, authorized by congress of the United States 

 as the same appears in section thirty-five hundred and sixty-nine and 

 tliirt \-fivc hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United. 

 States. 



SEC. 4429. [B-y what standard contracts construed.] All con- 

 tracts hereafter made within this state for work to be done, or for anything 

 to be sold by weight or measure, shall be taken and construed according to- 

 the standards hereby adopted as the standards of this state. 



SEC. 4430. [Yard, the standard measure of length and surface; 

 subdivisions of yard.] The unit of standard measure of length and 

 surface, from which all other measures of extension, whether they be 

 lineal, superficial, or solid, shall be derived and ascertained is the stand- 

 ard yard, now r in possession of the secretary of state, and furnished by the- 

 government of the United States. The yard shall be divided into three 

 equal parts, called feet, and each foot into twelve equal parts, called inches. 

 For the measure of cloths and other commodities commonly sold by the 

 yard, it may be divided into halves, quarters, eights, and sixteenths. 



SEC. 4431. [Contents of a rod, pole, or perch; of a mile; of a 

 chain.] The rod, pole, or perch shall contain five and a half such 

 yards ; the mile, one thousand seven hundred and sixty such yards ; the 

 chain for measuring land shall be twenty-two yards long, and shall be 

 divided into one hundred equal parts called links. 



SEC. 4432. [Contents of an acre.] The acre for land measure 

 shall be measured horizontally, and contain ten square chains, and shall be 

 equivalent in area to a rectangle sixteen rods in length and ten in breadth : 

 six hundred and forty such acres being contained in a square mile. 



SEC. 4433. [Contents of perch of mason work or stone.] The 

 perch of mason work or stone shall consist of twenty-five cubic feet. 



SEC. 4434. [Contents of a cord of fire-wood or tan-bark.] The 

 standard measure of a cord of fire-wood or tan-bark, shall be one hundred 

 and twenty-eight cubic feet well stowed and packed. 



