---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 237"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "237"
heading: "Standard barrels for lime"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/237"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter VI — Standard Barrels"
---

# §237. Standard barrels for lime


There is established a large and a small barrel of lime, the large barrel to consist of two hundred and eighty pounds and the small barrel to consist of one hundred and eighty pounds, net weight.


## Source credit

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 1, 39 Stat. 530.)