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sold by weight the quantity constituting a barrel shall be one 

 hundred and seventy-four pounds. No person shall make, or 

 cause to be made, barrels holding less than the quantity herein 

 specified, knowing or having reason to believe that the same 

 are to be used for the sale of apples, quinces, pears, or pota- 

 toes, unless such barrel is plainly marked on the outside 

 thereof with the words "short barrel" in letters of not less 

 than one inch in hight. No person in this state shall use 

 barrels hereafter made for the sale of such articles of a size 

 less than the size specified in this section. Every person 

 violating any provision of this section shall forfeit to the 

 people of the state a sum of five dollars for every barrel put 

 up made or used in violation of such provision. 

 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



MASSACHUSETTS BERRY-BASKET LAW 



lyate in the spring of 1 901 the Massachusetts legis- 

 lature passed the following law : 



An Act relative to the size of berry baskets. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



Sections one and two of chapter three hundred and thirty- 

 nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred are hereby 

 amended to read as follows: 



Section i. Every basket or other receptacle containing 

 one quart or less, used or intended to be used in the sale of 

 strawberries, blackberries, cherries, currants, and goose- 

 berries, shall be of the capacity of one quart, one pint, or one- 

 half pint, Massachusetts standard dry measure. 



Sec. 2. Whosoever sells or offers for sale any such 

 basket or other receptacle, containing one quart or less, not 

 conforming to said standard to be used in the sale of any of 

 the aforesaid fruit, and whoever sells or offers for sale any 

 of the aforesaid fruit in any such basket or other receptacle, 

 containing one quart or less, not conforming to the said stand- 



