15 USC § 234 - Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s234"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 234 - Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "234"
section_name: "Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "STANDARD BARRELS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, § 1, 38 Stat. 1186.)"
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# § 234. Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity

*Provided*

The standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heads, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: , That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. The standard barrel for cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of staves, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, sixteen and one-fourth inches; distance between heads, twenty-five and one-fourth inches; circumference of bulge, fifty-eight and one-half inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, § 1, 38 Stat. 1186.)