---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 238"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "238"
heading: "Penalty for selling in barrels not marked"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/238"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Weights and Measures and Standard Time"
  - "Subchapter VI — Standard Barrels"
---

# §238. Penalty for selling in barrels not marked


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) to sell or offer for sale lime imported in barrels from a foreign country, or to sell or offer for sale lime in barrels for shipment from any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia, to any other [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or Territory or the District of Columbia, unless there shall be stenciled or otherwise clearly marked on one or both heads of the small barrel the figures “180 lbs. net” and of the large barrel the figures “280 lbs. net” before the importation or shipment, and on either barrel in addition the name of the manufacturer of the lime and where manufactured, and, if imported, the name of the country from which it is imported.


## Source credit

(Aug. 23, 1916, ch. 396, § 2, 39 Stat. 530.)