Sec. 135k. Cooperation between department and agencies. The Secretary is authorized to cooperate with any other department or agency of, the Federal Government and with the official agricultural or other regulatory agency of any State, Territory, District, possession or any political subdivision thereof, in carrying out the provisions of sections 135-135k *

and in securing uniformity of regulations. [1947] U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 7, Ch. 21A-"Tobacco Inspection Act."

Sec. 511e. Weighing; fees; construction of section.

The Secretary, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, or persons, whether operating in one or more jurisdictions, is authorized to employ and/or license competent persons as weighers to weigh and certify the weight of tobacco, or as inspectors of tobacco to determine and certify, upon the request of the owner or other financially interested person, the type, grade, weight, condition, and/or such other facts as the Secretary may deem necessary.

The Secretary is authorized to fix and collect such fees or charges in the administration of this section as he may deem reasonable, and the moneys collected, except as provided in this section, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Fees or charges collected under an agreement with a State, municipality, or person, or by an individual licensed to inspect or weigh or sample tobacco under this chapter [Secs. 511-511q], may be disposed of in accordance with the terms of such agreement or license.

This section is intended merely to provide for the furnishing of services upon request of the owner or other person financially interested in tobacco to be sampled, inspected, or weighed and shall not be construed otherwise. [1935]

Sec. 511i. Unlawful acts.

It shall be unlawful

(d) For any person employed, designated, or licensed by the Secretary as an inspector, sampler, or weigher of tobacco under this chapter [Secs. 511511q] knowingly to inspect, sample, or weigh improperly, or to issue any false certificate under this chapter, or to accept money or other consideration, directly or indirectly, for any neglect or improper performance of duty as an inspector, sampler or weigher.

(f) For any person falsely to represent or other

wise indicate that he is authorized by the Secretary to inspect, sample, or weigh tobacco under this chapter. [1935]

Sec. 511k. Penalty for violations.

Any person violating any provisions of sections 511d and 51li of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. [1935]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 7, Ch. 38—“Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946."

Sec. 1622. Duties of secretary of agriculture.

The Secretary of Agriculture is directed and authorized:

(a) To conduct, assist, and foster research, investigation, and experimentation to determine the best methods of processing, preparation for market, packaging, handling, transporting, storing, distributing, and marketing agricultural products:

(c) To develop and improve standards of quality, condition, quantity, grade, and packaging, and recommend and demonstrate such standards in order to encourage uniformity and consistency in commercial practices.

(h) To inspect, certify, and identify the class, quality, quantity, and condition of agricultural products when shipped or received in interstate commerce, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, including assessment and collection of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost of the service rendered, * except that no person shall be required to use the service authorized by this subsection. [1946]

Sec. 1626. Agricultural products defined.

When used in this chapter [Secs. 1621-1629], the term "agricultural products" includes agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock and poultry, bees, forest products, fish and shellfish, and any products thereof, including processed and manufactured products, and any and all products raised or produced on farms and any processed or manufactured product thereof. [1946] U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 19, Ch. 1-Customs, Testing of Weighing and Measuring Apparatus at Ports. Sec. 40. Semiyearly comparison of weights and measures used in customhouses.

At ports at which there are a collector, comptroller, and surveyor, it shall be the duty of the surveyor, who shall be in all cases subject to the direction of the collector

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 19, Ch. 1-Customs, Testing of Weighing and Measuring Apparatus at Ports -Continued.

First. To superintend and direct all inspectors, weighers, measurers, and gaugers within his port.

Eighth. To examine, and, from time to time, and particularly on the first Mondays of January and July in each year, try the weights, measures, and other instruments used in ascertaining the duties on imports, with standards to be provided by each collector at the public expense for that purpose; and where disagreements or errors are discovered, to report the same to the collector; and to obey and execute such directions as he may receive for correcting the same, agreeably to the standards. [1799; last amended 1930.]

[ED. NOTE.-In U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., following the foregoing section, it is stated: "Office of surveyor of customs abolished except in Port of New York, see section 5a of this title."]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 19, Ch. 3-Customs, Bushel Weights.

Sec. 391. Legal weight of bushel for certain products.

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, fiftysix pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirtytwo pounds of oats, sixty pounds of peas, and fortytwo pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel. [1866]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 19, Ch. 4—Customs, Units and Invoices.

Sec. 1001. Bushel weights of certain commodities; ton; line button measure.

Par. 722. Barley, hulled or unhulled, 20 cents per bushel of forty-eight pounds;

Par. 724. Corn or maize, including cracked corn, 25 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds;

Par. 726. Oats, hulled or unhulled, 16 cents per bushel of thirty-two pounds;

Par. 728. Rye, 15 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds;

Par. 729. Wheat, 42 cents per bushel of sixty pounds;

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Par. 734. Apples, green or ripe, 25 cents per bushel of fifty pounds;

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Par. 738. Cider, 5 cents per gallon; vinegar, 8 cents per proof gallon: Provided, That the standard proof for vinegar shall be 4 per centum by weight of acetic acid.

Par. 747. Pineapples, 50 cents per crate of two and forty-five one hundredths cubic feet;

Par. 762. Oil-bearing seeds and materials: * flaxseed, 65 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds;

Sec. 1494. Expense of weighing and measuring.

In all cases in which the invoice or entry does not state the weight, quantity, or measure of the merchandise, the expense of ascertaining the same shall be collected from the consignee before its release from customs custody. [1930]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 26, Ch. 26-"Internal Revenue Code," Intoxicating Liquor.

[ED. NOTE.-The Internal Revenue Code was approved on Feb. 10, 1939 (53 Stat. 1), and reenacted many of the provisions of earlier revenue laws. Secs. 2808, 2809, 2842, and 2845, below, trace their origin to Act of July 20, 1868, Ch. 186; and Sec. 3150 traces its origin to Act of July 13, 1866, Ch. 184.]

Sec. 2808. Instruments to prevent and detect fraud.

For the prevention and detection of frauds by distillers of spirits, the Commissioner may prescribe for use such hydrometers, saccharometers, weighing and gauging instruments, or other means for ascertaining the quantity, gravity, and producing capacity of any mash, wort, or beer used, or to be used, in the production of distilled spirits, and the strength and quantity of spirits subject to tax, as he may deem necessary; and he may prescribe rules and regulations to secure a uniform and correct system of inspection, weighing, marking, and gauging of spirits. [1939]

Sec. 2809. Standard of proof spirits; standard gallon.

(c) Proof spirits shall be held to be that alcoholic liquor which contains one-half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine ten-thousandths (.7939) at sixty degrees Fahrenheit.

(d) In all sales of spirits a gallon shall be held to be a gallon of proof spirit, according to the standard prescribed in the preceding subsection, set forth and

declared for the inspection and gauging of spirits throughout the United States. [1939]

Sec. 2842. Penalty for using false weights and measures.

Every person who knowingly uses any false weights or measures in ascertaining, weighing, or measuring the quantities of grain, meal, or vegetable materials, molasses, beer, or other substances to be used for distillation, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, and imprisoned not less than one year nor more than three years. [1939] Sec. 2845. Authorized barrel of proof spirits.

Every distiller shall make a return of the number of barrels of spirits distilled by him, counting forty gallons of proof spirits to the barrel, whenever such return is demanded by the collector of the district. [1939]

Sec. 3150. Fermented liquors: Standard barrel.

(a) There shall be levied and collected on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liquor, * a tax of $7 for every barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for fractional parts of a barrel authorized and defined by law. In estimating and computing such tax, the fractional parts of a barrel shall be halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and eighths; and any fractional part of a barrel, containing less than one-eighth, shall be accounted one-eighth; more than one-eighth, and not more than one-sixth, shall be accounted one-sixth; more than one-sixth, and not more than one-fourth, shall be accounted one-fourth; more than one-fourth, and not more than one-third, shall be accounted onethird; more than one-third, and not more than onehalf, shall be accounted one-half; more than one-half, and not more than one barrel, shall be accounted one barrel; and more than one barrel, and not more than sixty-three gallons, shall be accounted two barrels, or a hogshead.

The provisions of this section requiring the ac counting of hogsheads, barrels, and fractional parts of barrels at the next higher quantity shall not apply where the contents of such hogsheads, barrels, or fractional parts of barrels are within the limits of tolerance established by the Commissioner by regulations which he is hereby authorized to prescribe with the approval of the Secretary; and no assessment shall be made and no tax shall be collected for any excess in any case where the contents of the hogsheads, barrels, or fractional parts of barrels heretofore or hereafter used are within the limits of the tolerance so prescribed.

[1939]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 27, Ch. 8-"Federal Alcohol Administration Act."

Sec. 205. Marking requirements.

It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in business as a distiller, brewer, rectifier, blender, or

other producer, or as an importer or wholesaler, of distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages, or a bottler, or warehouseman and bottler, of distilled spirits, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate:

(e) To sell or ship or deliver for sale or shipment, or otherwise introduce in interstate or foreign commerce, or to receive therein, or to remove from customs custody for consumption, any distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages in bottles, unless such products are bottled, packaged, and labeled in conformity with such regulations, to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to packaging, marking, branding, and labeling and size and fill of container (1) as will prohibit deception of the consumer with respect to such products or the quantity thereof *; (2) as will provide the consumer with adequate information as to net contents of the package, amended 1942.]

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U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 31, Ch. 8-Coins and Coinage.

Sec. 316. Silver coins; weight.

The silver coins of the United States shall be a dollar; a half-dollar, or fifty-cent piece; a quarterdollar, or twenty-five-cent piece; and a dime, or tencent piece. The weight of said coins shall be that determined by the President under the provisions of section 821 of this title. [1873; last amended 1939.]

[ED. NOTE.-Under the “Regulations for the Transaction of Business at the Mints, Assay Offices, and Bullion Depositories of the United States," revised December 1, 1947, the weights of silver coins are as follows: Dollar, 412.5 grains; half-dollar, 192.9 grains; quarter-dollar, 96.45 grains; dime, 38.58 grains.]

Sec. 317. Minor coins: Standard weight.

The minor coins of the United States shall be a five-cent piece, and a one-cent piece. The

weight of the piece of 5 cents shall be seventy-seven and sixteen-hundredths grains troy, and of the onecent piece, forty-eight grains. [1873; last amended 1890.]

Sec. 349. Deviations allowed in adjusting weights: Silver coins.

In adjusting the weight of silver coins the following deviations shall not be exceeded in any single piece: In the dollar, six grains; in the half-dollar, four grains; in the quarter-dollar, three grains; and in the dime, one and one-half grains. [1873; last amended 1947.]

Sec. 350. Same: Minor coins.

In adjusting the weight of the minor coins *, there shall be no greater deviation allowed than three grains for the 5-cent piece and two grains for the 1-cent piece. [1873; last amended 1890.]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 31, Ch. 8-Coins and Coinage Continued.

Sec. 363. Assay commissioners.

To secure a due conformity in the silver coins to their respective standards of fineness and weight, the judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Comptroller of the Currency, the assayer of the assay office at New York, and such other persons as the President shall, from time to time, designate, shall meet as assay commissioners, at the mint in Philadelphia, to examine and test, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the fineness and weight of the coins reserved by the several mints for this purpose, on the second Wednesday in February, annually, and may continue their meetings by adjournment, if necessary. If a majority of the commissioners fail to attend at any time appointed for their meeting, the Director of the Mint shall call a meeting of the commissioners at such other time as he may deem convenient. If it appears by such examination and test that these coins do not differ from the standard fineness and weight by a greater quantity than is allowed by law, the trial shall be considered and reported as satisfactory. If, however, any greater deviation from the legal standard or weight appears, this fact shall be certified to the President; and if, on a view of the circumstances of the case, he shall so decide, the officers implicated in the error shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices. [1873; last amended 1934.]

[ED. NOTE.-In U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., following the foregoing section, it is stated: "Words 'gold and' preceding words 'silver coins' were omitted from original enactment of this section, inasmuch as the coinage of gold was discontinued and existing gold coins were withdrawn from circulation by section 315b of this title and all laws inconsistent therewith were repealed by section 446 of this title."]

Sec. 364. Standard troy pound for regulation of coinage.

For the purpose of securing a due conformity in weight of the coins of the United States to the provisions of the laws relating to coinage, the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States shall be the standard troy pound of the mint of the United States, conformably to which the coin

age thereof shall be regulated. [1873; last amended 1911.]

Sec. 365. Standard weights for mints and assay offices.

It shall be the duty of the Director of the Mint to procure for each mint and assay office, to be kept safely thereat, a series of standard weights corresponding to the standard troy pound of the Bureau of Standards of the United States, consisting of a onepound weight and the requisite subdivisions and multiples thereof, from the hundreths part of a grain to twenty-five pounds. The troy weight ordinarily employed in the transactions of such mints and assay offices shall be regulated according to the above standards at least once in every year, under the inspection of the superintendent and assayer; and the accuracy of those used at the mint at Philadelphia shall be tested annually, in the presence of the assay commissioners, at the time of the annual examination and test of coins. [1873; last amended 1911.] U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 18, Ch. 7-Coins and Coinage, False Weights.

Sec. 280. Alteration of weights or scales at mints or assay offices.

If any of the gold or silver coins struck or coined at any of the mints of the United States shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to law, or if any of the scales or weights used at any of the mints or assay offices of the United States shall be defaced, altered, increased, or diminished through the fault or connivance of any officer or person employed at the said mints or assay offices, with a fraudulent intent;

every such officer or person who commits any of the said offenses shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. [1909]

U. S. Code, 1946 Ed., Title 46, Ch. 2-Shipping, Register Tonnage.

Sec. 77. Register tonnage defined.