§ 391 - Ascertainment of duties on grain

CHAPTER 3— THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS

For the purpose of estimating the duties on importations of grain, the number of bushels shall be ascertained by weight, instead of by measuring; and sixty pounds of wheat, fifty-six pounds of corn, fifty-six pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirty-two pounds of oats, sixty pounds of peas, and forty-two pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel.

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Codification

R.S. § 2919 derived from act July 18, 1866, ch. 201, § 38, 14 Stat. 187.