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[CITE: 15USC231]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 6--WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VI--STANDARD BARRELS
 
Sec. 231. Standard barrel for apples; steel barrels

    The standard barrel for apples shall be of the following dimensions 
when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-
eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, seventeen and one-eighth 
inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of 
bulge, sixty-four inches outside measurement, representing as nearly as 
possible seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches: Provided, That steel 
barrels containing the interior dimensions provided for in this section 
shall be construed as a compliance therewith.

(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 250.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 232, 233 of this title.
