Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United StatesIn many Of the States the legal bushel Of certain commodities is specified in pounds. Special bushels have also been legally established in many States for particular products, such as the charcoal bushel, which in Connecticut is cubic inches, in Colorado cubic inches, in Kansas cubic inches, in Pennsylvania cubic inches, and in Minnesota cubic inches (or one-half basket). In Vermont one bushel and three - quarters Of a peck are deemed a bushel Of charcoal, lime, or ashes. In some places 5 pecks constitute a bushel of screened lump coal. A lime bushel in Minnesota is cubic inches. In Pennsylvania, however, it is equal to the Winchester bushel, although the coke bushel is cubic inches. In Idaho the bushel of fruit is cubic inches, and the coke bushel in Missouri is cubic inches. Some States require, furthermore, heaped measure, others struck measure, the heap sometimes being required to be as high as the article will admit, and elsewhere as high as may be without special effort or design, and in still other cases, as in Connecticut, the heaped bushel is definitely fixed as cubic inches. The ton of coal is in some States fixed at pounds and in others at pounds. The barrel varies from 29 gallons liquid measure, or 100 dry quarts, in New York to 42 gallons liquid measure in Texas.This diversity causes confusion in the commerce between the different States. That there is need for authoritative definition by weight is made evident by the fact that Congress has found it necessary to specify the number of pounds of certain commodities in a bushel These values were adopted by Congress solely for use in the customs service, and do not [supersede the State laws, from which they Often differ.In the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and Guam the metric system of weights and measures is in general use, and it is the sole legalized system for these islands. The use of the metric system has been legal in the United States since 1866, and although it is in extensive use among technical and scientific men it is not in general use in commercial transactions. Nevertheless the legal status Of the metric system is in some respects superior to that Of our customary system of weights and measures, since Congress has legalized the metric system as a whole and specifically stated the relation of the various units to one another. On the other hand the system of weights and measures in common use in the United States has never been specifically adopted by Congress nor are the relations of the various units to one another fixed except by custom. It is therefore not possible to give a list Of the legal weights and measures of this country, such as may be found in foreign countries where the standards and their multiples and subdivisions are fixed by law. Congress has never even adopted material standards for our customary system of weights and measures, but has left this matter to the discretion of the Treasury Department.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.