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title: "19 U.S.C. § 391"
description: "Ascertainment of duties on grain"
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title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
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chapter_name: "THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS"
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# 19 U.S.C. § 391 - Ascertainment of duties on grain
## Text
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, fifty-six pounds of rye, forty-eight pounds of barley, thirty-two pounds of oats, sixty pounds of peas, and forty-two pounds of buckwheat, avoirdupois weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel.
(R.S. § 2919.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2919 derived from act July 18, 1866, ch. 201, § 38, 14 Stat. 187.