York-St. John the Baptist's church. There is also in Philadelphia, St. Thomas (African) John Campbell-since July 17, 1825. Charles Shaler--since September 19, 1828. Abstract of Parochial Reports. Reports have been received from thirty-nine clergy men representing sixty parishes,--which although more full than heretofore, are yet imperfect; and which it is hoped will be hereafter rendered perfect by a strict adherence to the Form of Parochial Report set forth by the Convention of 1832. Aggregate of the Reports. Baptisms, adults, 157, Infants 813, Total 970.-31 Congregations contain 2,322 families, 6,048 adults 5,212 children.-Communicants added, 508, died and removed 156; present number 3,373.-Public services, on Sundays 2,996, other days 1,393, total, 4,389.-Confirmed 465.-Marriages, 264-Burials, 450.-Chil dren catechized, 640, times 309.-Bible classes, 23, members, 840. Sunday schools, 86, teachers 667, pupils 5,500.-Collections, in 32 par shes, Episcopal fund, 8518,90-Society for the Advancement of Christianity, $1233 80-Missionary and other purposes $16,139 85. Church Edifices consecrated, during the year, 7. Being built, 7. 157 of the 26th instant, for the purpose of interchanging sentiments in relation to the commencement of the wes tern division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and, also, in reference to the proposed Convention, to be held at Greensborough, in the county of Greene. The Hon. Samuel Pettigrew, Mayor of the city, presided. The meeting being organized-on motion of Robert Burke, Esq., it was Resolved, That a committee, consisting of three persons, be appointed by the Chair to prepare resolutions, expressive of the opinions of the meeting, on the subject under deliberation. Robert Burke, Richard Biddle, and N. B. Craig, Esqs. being constituted said committee retired, and after a few minutes, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare a memorial, to be presented to both Houses of Congress, at their next session, in favor of an appropriation of money, for the commencement of the western division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Resolved, That the same persons be a Committee to procure signatures to the memorial, when prepared, and to forward the same to the Hon. Wm. Wilkins and the Hon. Harmar Denny, with the request that they will present the same to the Houses to which they respectively belong; and that they will use their utmost exertions to procure the passage of a law, in conformity with the application of the memorialists. Resolved, That ten delegates be appointed to represent this city and county in a Convention, to be held at Greensborough, on the 23d of September next, on the subject of the improvement of the Monongahela river; and that said delegates be instructed to unite, heartily, in any measure that may be devised for the purpose of effecting an object of such obvious utility. At the instance of the meeting, the Chair assigned the duty contemplated by the first and second of the foregoing resolutions to Richard Biddle, Walter Forward, Esqs., and the Rev. Charles Avery-and by the third resolution, to Robert Burke, H. M. Watts, Wm. Eichbaum, Chas. Avery, John M. Snowden, Sen., W. W. Fetterman, Robert Christy, Neville B. Craig, John D. Davis, and Dr. A. N.M'Dowell. A motion of W. W. Irwin, Esq., that the delegates appointed to the Convention, at Greensborough, be authorized to fill any vacancies occurring in their own body, was then adopted. It was also agreed that the editors of the newspapers in this city be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. SAMUEL PETTIGREW, Chairman. H. M. WATTS, Secretary. Pittsburgh Gazette. Extracts from Letters from one of the Editors of the I arrived at Williamsport last night, at a time of great excitement, and proceeded to this place, the scene of action, this morning. On Friday last, one of the labourers on the canal went into the orchard of Mrs. Hunt, near the Great Island Dam, and was in the act of knocking down apples, when a young man, the son of Mrs. Hunt discharged a gun loaded with shot at the laborer, who is supposed to have been hit by some of the grains, but he fled, and has not since been heard of. The boatmen employed in collecting stone to fill in the structure of the dam, it is said, taunted the Irish labourers on the canal with the mishap to their country man in his depredations upon Hunt's orchard, which New churches admitted into union with the conven- produced irritation, and as a most unavoidable consetion, 3. PUBLIC MEETING. In pursuance of a request, in the several newspapers of the city of Pittsburgh, the citizens of Allegheny county assembled at the court house, on the afternoon quence among such an excitable people, an attack was made the same evening by the canal laborers upon the boatmen. There were some black eyes and flesh wounds on this occasion, and most unfortunately one *See page 159. of the canal men received a discharge of large shot, from a gun, in his left arm and breast, which the physicians think puts his life in great peril. His case is considered very dangerous this evening by them, as Dr. B. himselt informs me. upon this spans of 70 feet-then cross pieces-and upon these again spans of 54 feet. The structure to be fill. ed in with stone, and faced on the upper side of the dam with large white oak logs hewed flat, and the low. er side, or shoot, covered with five inch white oak plank. I have said this Big Dam is no mighty affair, because the West Branch of the Susquehanna where it is built, is not larger than the Bald Eagle creek that joins it a mile or two below. The principal streams that form the West Branch and give it an imposing ap pearance at Northumberland are all below this Dam, namely, Bald Eagle, Pine, Lycoming, Loyalsock and Muncy. The work on the dam is progressing so rapid. ly under the energetic direction of the Contractors, Abbot Green, and others, that there is not the least doubt of its completion this fall. The timber and stone are as convenient as one could desire. I walked along the line of canal connecting the Bald Eagle with the Susquehanna at the Big Dam. It is plain excavation the whole distance, being a level bottom, mostly a stiff clay soil, with rock or stone. It is all staked off, and the trees removed; and on some sections laborers are engaged. There will be no difficulty in finishing it by the time the West Branch Canal is completed. The connexion is 34 miles in extent. The report of these doings spread along the line with rapidity, and the gentlemen concerned in superintending the work did all they could to avert the mischief that was evidently brewing. A report was circulated on Saturday morning, that the man who had been shot the preceding evening was dead. A number of the labourers employed below Dunnstown turned over their wheelsbarrows in the afternoon, and proceeded up towards the Dam. They made an attack upon Major Colt's shantee, knocked him down, and beat him, which would have been to death, but for the interference of an Irishman who received the blows directed against the Major. The shantee they tore down. Other persons, entirely unconnected with the previous disputes were also attacked and injured, and the riot became so serious that word was sent to the Sheriff-and the military of the neighborhood was called. On Sunday, the disturbance still continued, and the boatmen make an attack with axes upon the shantees of the Irish immediately below the Dam, and rased ten or a dozen of them-belonging to labourers who had taken no part in the riot. This transpired just as Capt. S. In travelling from Mill Hall to Bellefonte on the 27th, Hunter Wilson's Nittany company of horse arrived on I observed that the buckwheat had been killed by the the opposite shore, and was over before he could reach frost, and yesterday, between Bellefonte and this, the Some companies of military from leaves of the young oaks exhibited marks of having been the neighborhood assembled the same day, and quiet killed by the same element. This morning there is a was restored. A number of Irish laborers were arrest-heavy frost here, and the garden vines are all adroop. ed, and after a laborious investigation before 'Squire This is only 110 miles west of Harrisburg. But what Dunn to day, 16 Irish laborers were sent to Williams- is more singular, there was frost here in July, while we port under an escort of the military, there to be impriwere melting at Harrisburg. soned till they get their trials, which will be at the Court next week, and several others were bound over on bail to appear at the same time for the same purpose. the scene of action. The boatmen concerned in the outrage of destroying the shantees are lurking in the hills, out of the way of the officers of justice, else, I understand, they would be arrested, and if but half of what is stated respecting them to be true, they ought to be punished with as much severity as the Irish. They are said to be mostly Germans from Mahantango. The Irishman shot and so dangerously wounded is a Cork man, and every one committed to jail at Williamsport is from Cork also. I have been more particular in this account than is my custom; for this reason, that on my arrival at Williamsport, but 26 miles from the place of disturbance, the story was that 500 Irish had been turning every thing upside down, that about 250 militia and volunteers had reached the ground, that many had been shot in the affrays of Saturday and Sunday, and there was no telling what might be the issue. When I got to Dunnstown, the story was that three were dead of gunshot wounds: one had been found on the opposite shore and another in the hills. These exaggerations, I concluded, would be further exaggerated by the time they would reach Harrisburg, and hence I loitered through the day about Dunnstown and the Dam, making inquiries at the best sources, the result of which is here set down. The Big Dam, as it is called, across the West Branch of the Susquehanna, about which so much has been said, is no such a mighty affair when looked at. The point in the dam at which the water enters the canal, and the sluice outside the same, are precisely situated The like the same things at Duncan's Island dam. sluice, however, is much longer than that at Duncan's Island, being 1200 feet. A short distance below the lower end of the sluice, there is to be an out-let Lock, for the passage of arks into the river. The dam is to be 11 feet high, constructed thus-a sheeting of pine spans, 50 feet long, and hewed flat on the upper and lower sides, then cross pieces of the same materials, HUNTINGDON FURNACE, Aug. 30, 1833. THE COAL TRADE. Pennsylvania has been appropriately designated the "Key Stone State." This was at a time when her im mense mineral and other resources were comparatively unknown. As these become developed, her importance is made more and more apparent. But a few years since, and the shores of the romantic Schuylkill were without commerce. It is true, that occasionally, a small vessel laden with wood, might be seen gliding slowly upon its tranquit waters. How different is the scene at present. The commerce of this river within the last two years has increased in an almost unexampled degree. Wharves have been built, capacious store-houses erected, and a thriving and prosperous business is here carried on. From the following account of the clear. ances of vessels laden with coal, for New York, Boston, Newport, Providence, Portland, Albany, Wilmington, Washington, Richmond, &c., some idea may be formed of the extent of this rapidly increasing trade. Our return is far from complete, embracing only the operations of four companies, and eight individuals or firms. Still to Philadelphians it must present a truly gratifying spec tacle. From the latter part of March to the 31st of August, there have been despatched from the Schuylkill, laden with full cargoes of coal, by the North American Coal Co. Brigs. Schrs. Sloops, Tot. 4 68 13 85 Between the 4th of April and the 31st of August, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company have loaded with full cargoes of coal, and despatched from the river Delaware, 1 ship, 32 brigs, 155 schooners, and 55 sloops: making a total of 243 vessels. Thus it appears, that during a period of about five months, EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX vessels laden with coal have cleared from this city. We believe that when our report is completed, the whole number will fall but little short of one thousand.-Comm. Herald. COMMODORE BARRON'S PUMP. The following description of Commodore Barron's Pump is from the American Sentinel. It conveys an adequate idea of it. If, on the trial to which it is to be subjected, it shall prove, (as we are sure it will,) to answer the inventor's expectations, it will be a gift to the Navy and to Commerce, of incalculable value. the greater facilities they furnish for making this great advantage in the highest degree available for its rapid discharge. It is difficult to imagine what might be the effect of this principle displayed on a great scale under the action of steam power; for its energies will always be commensurate with the power applied to excite them, and at what point, with such a power at command as steam affords, shall we fix these limits? It is hoped the trial about to take place will call the earnest attention of an intelligent public to the principle of this pump-that whatever place it is destined to hold eventually, in their estimate that place may be decided by its own single merits-ascertained by impartial, enlightened and patient examination. PITTSBURG, August 30, 1833. Memorials, of which the following is a copy, are now ception of signatures.—Pittsburg Gaz. in circulation, through the city and county, for the re CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. "The determination to which we learn the County Commissioners have come to give a public trial to the pump constructed by Commodore Barron, is in the highest degree creditable to their public spirit and intelligence, as we are well assured that nothing but such To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States:a trial is wanting, to establish in the fullest and most satisfactory manner, its great superiority over the pumps The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Pittsburg in common use. The beauty and simplicity of the prinand its vicinity, respectfully represents→ ciple upon which the efficiency of this pump turns, can- That your memorialists have watched, with the deepnot fail to strike forcibly even the least intelligent ob- est interest, the commencement and progress of the server; but to the man of pure and practical science, Chesapeake and Ohio canal, as a great national enteraccustomed to look for the greatest results in the sim-prise, originating with the Father of his country, and plest combinations, it must be doubly interesting, as displaying more clearly, as it advances, the enlightened affording no mean instance of successful research under sagacity and far sighted patriotism of its illustrious prothe same enlightened spirit which directs his own views.jector. This pump is in the form of a parallellopiped, and the The claims of this noble work to the countenance and chamber, (which occupies nearly or quite half the whole patronage of the general government have been so oflength,) is formed by three of its sides, and a corres- ten urged, and your honorable bodies already possess, pondent moveable board, turning at its extremities in so many authentic forms, the fullest and most detailupon two parallel joints like a parallel ruler. In this ed evidence of its practicability and advantages, that board, holes are pierced at different intervals, to which the undersigned will not venture to repeat the arguvalves are attached turning outwards or to the fourthments, or to spread anew before you the facts, which side of the pump. carried conviction to the minds of your predecessors, and the force of which time has only served to strengthen and confirm. But they would respectfully point to the present auspicious era, as offering a new impulse, and supplying an additional motive, to the further and vigorous interposition of Congress. To the upper extremity of the movable board, which is called a valve board, a short spear is attached which is connected with the mechanical power which sets the pump in motion;-in the lower part of the chamber, a piston is placed as in the common pump, with the valve turning inwards. The national debt is discharged. That cherished obWhen the pump is appropriately placed for working, ject-of deep and absorbing interest to the whole counthe space inclosed by the three sides of the pump and try, not only in reference to a just feeling of security the valve board-or in other words, the chamber, and independence, but to the character and practical (which in a 20 feet pump, is 10 inches in length,) is fill-working of our Republican Institutions-has just been ed by the water, which, according to a well known law accomplished. We are rid of the accumulated charges of hydraulics, ascends through the lower box; a single of two costly wars, witnessed by the same generation. stroke of the lever propels the valve board against its We transmit no burden to posterity, to clog its rich corresponding side, and the water inclosed having no inheritance. And, surely, at this moment of complete escape otherwise, is forced through the lateral open- disengagement from the pecuniary solicitude-when ings in the valve board against the fourth side of the the great object of inquiry is as to the least mischiev pump, where meeting with a new and increased resist-ous plan for employing a redundant revenue-we do ance, the whole volume is thrown upwards to seek its way outwards, through the conductors attached to the head of the pump. The volume thus discharged is in the ratio of 10 to 1, compared with that discharged by a common pump of equal bore. For instance, the capacity of a common pump to discharge water is regulated by the extreme rise of the upper piston, which in a common pump of ten inch bore, under any effort of the lever, cannot be made to raise more than twelve inches, and consequently at the very most only twelve inches of water can be discharged at a single stroke; in a pump on Commodore Barron's principle, of an equal bore, 10 feet can be discharged by a single stroke-the lever in both cases describing the same arc. not err in asking you to give back to the nation, in the shape of a diffusive blessing, a portion of what has been confided to your disposal. The objection, urged with success, to solicitations, in reference to improvements of a local, limited range, and usefulness, will not be pretended to be applicable here. There is nothing in this enterprise of a narrow, sectional character; in it mingle freely the sympathies and interests, as do the waters of the cast and west. Nor will it fail to occur to your honorable bodies, that the question is not an open one, of original investment, but that a large amount of money, under an appropria ation by Congress, has already passed into the work, and must share its fate. Shall the past expenditure be The great superiority of this pump over the common lost to the country? There is nothing, as the underpamp arises at once from the comparatively greater field signed conceive, in the history of the work which can afforded by its interior arrangements for the develop-justify such infirmity of purpose, and rash abandonment ment of the law which governs the ascent of water, and of a great public stake. regulation and adjustment of weights, &c. to the standards, a part of the manufacture. Such it ought to be. Sections 22 and 23, provide penalties for the use of false weights and measures. When there is intent to defraud, the act is treated as criminal, this is the com. mon law, (3 Burr, 1697, Com. Dig. Indictment D.) But it is necessary to guard against the inadvertent use of false weights and measures. This also, is herein provided for. But the section does not require any person to have his weights, &c. regulated. It enacts, only, that if not regulated annually, the owner shall use them at his own risk. We think this method preferable to that of requiring an annual inspection of weights and measures. The remaining sections of the bill relate properly to admeasurement, and certain terms of admeasurement. Were Section 24, defines the acre: we have introduced it into this bill, merely because we found an English sta tute upon the subject, reported to be in force by the judges of the Supreme Court, (31 Ed. 1 St. 6.) there no such statute, we should not think the section at all necessary. Section 25, is taken from a local act; 10th March, 1817, §2. It provides for the dimensions of a cord, and for the manner of cording. Section 26, is taken from the act of 16th January, 1823. This act does not specify the kind of gallon: we suppose the wine gallon was intended, and have therefore added the words, in wine measure. Sections 27 and 28. These sections are taken from the act of 10th March, 1818, §1, §2, without any alteration in substance. Section 29. This section is taken from a local act passed 24 April, 1822, $1. We have introduced it, because there seems to be a propriety in having but one rule for the sale of the same article throughout the commonwealth. Sections 30 and 31. These sections require no particular remark in this place. In respect to the proviso contained in the thirty-first section, we take leave to refer to some remarks made upon the 118th section of the bill relating to counties, &c. Sect. 16. Inspectors to make oath, &c. of office. Sect. 17. Compensation for regulating weights, &c. Sect. 18. Weights, &c. when regulated, to be stamped. Sect. 19. Penalties for injuries done to weights, &c. by inspectors, &c. Sect. 20. Guaging instruments to correspond to the standards of this state. Sect. 21. Weights, &c. sold, deemed to be warranted, &c. Sect. 22. Penalty for selling by weights, &c. not duly regulated. Sect 23. Persons selling by false weights, &c, with intent to defraud, indictable. Sect, 24. Acre of land to contain 4840 horizontal square yards—proviso. Sect. 25. Cord of wood contain 128 feet in solid measure. Sect. 26. A hogshead of cider to be 110 gallons in wine measure. Sect. 27. Grain may be sold by weight-proviso. Sect. 28. Foreign salt may be sold by weight-pro viso. Sect. 29. Anthracite coal may be sold by weight or measure, It is enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Governor to procure, for the use of the commonwealth, metallic standards for the weights and measures, according to the denominations of weights and m asures which have been hitherto used and approved in this commonwealth; which standards shall be inclosed in suitable cases, and be deposited and carefully preserved in the office of the State Treasurer. Section 2. It shall also be the duty of the Governor, from time to time as he shall judge expedient, to cause the said standards to be examined and tried; and, if ne cessary, to be corrected or renewed, so that they shall at all times be of their original measure or weight, and proportions. Section 3. Provided nevertheless, that if the Congress A Bill relating to Weights and measures, and to Ad- of the United States shall hereafter establish a standard measurement. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Section 1. Governor to procure state standards for weights and measures. Sect. 2. Standards to be verified from time to time, &c. Sect. 3. Standards made to conform to United States' standards when established. Sect. 4. Standard yard to be the unit of length; one third of the yard to be a foot; one-twelfth of such foot to be an inch. Sect. 5. Standard yard to be graduated so as to hibit all customary divisions. Sect. 6. Multiples and fractions of the yard, foot, inch, to be in parts of the standard. for any of the denominations of weights or measures, it shall be the duty of the Governor to cause the standard of this commonwealth for the same denomination to be made equal in all respects, and to be at all times con formable thereto. Section 4. The standard yards, which shall be procured by the Governor, shall be taken as the unit of all measures of length, and one third part of the said standard yard shall be a foot, and one-twelfth part of such foot shall be an inch. Section 5. The yard afores id shall be graduated or divided by marks engraved thereon, so that it shall exexhibit distinctly the following measures, to wit: or Sect. 7. Wine gallon to contain 231 cubical inches; beer gallon to contain 282 cubical inches. Sect. 8. Bushel to contain 2150 42 cubical inches. Sect. 9. Measures of the aliquot parts of wine gallon, beer gallon, and bushel to be proportionate. Sect. 10. Lime bushel, form of. Sect. 11. Weights-pound troy, pound avoirdupois. Sect. 12. Weights of aliquot parts of the pound, &c. to be proportionate. Sect. 13. Governor to procure standards of weigh's, &c. for the respective counties, and cause them to be delivered to the commissioners. Sect. 14. Standards of the counties to be verified once in ten years. Sect. 15. Commissioners of the counties to appoint inspectors and regulators. The length or rectilinear extension of the foot and of the inch aforesaid, and all the customary divisions or aliquot parts of a foot. Also, the length or rectilinear extension of one-half of a yard, one-quarter of a yard, one-eighth of a yard, one-sixteenth of a yard, and of all other customary di visions or aliquot parts of a yard. Section 6. All measures of extension, whether binary, ternary, decimal, duodecimal, or other aliquot parts, divisions or fractions of a yard, foot, or inch, or any multiple or combination thereof, expressed or known admeasurement of extension, quantity, capacity, or othby any customary measure, or by any of the terms of er dimension, shall respectively be equal to the same parts, proportion or multiple of the standard yard, foot or inch aforesaid, and not otherwise. Section 7. The standard measure of the wine gallon shall contain two hundred and thirty-one cubical inches of the standard inch aforesaid, and no more. And the espond ed to ter standard measure of the beer gallon shall contain two no more. Section 8. The standard measure of the bushel shall contain two thousand one hundred and fifty cubical inches, and forty-two hundredths of a cubical inch of the standard inch aforesaid, and no more. Section 9. The mesures of any aliquot or fractional part of the wine gallon, beer gallon, and bushel afore said, shall be proportionate thereto respectively, in the ratio of such aliquot or fractional part. Section 10. The bushel to be used for measuring lime, shall be made in the form and of the dimensions, to wit: Thirteen inches and a half diameter at the bottom Fifteen inches diameter at the top in the clear. The denomination of weights shall be The troy pound of this commonwealth shall be equal to the troy pound of the mint aforesaid. The pound avoirdupois of this commonwealth shall be greater than the troy pound aforesaid in the proportion of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. Section 12 The weights of any aliquot or fractional part of the troy pound and avoirdupois pound aforesaid, shall be proportionate thereto respectively, in the ratio of such aliquot or fractional part. Section 13. It shall also be the duty of the Governor to procure to be made, for each of the counties of this Commonwealth, at the charge of the counties respectively, a set of standards for weights and measures, according to the several denominations hitherto adopted into use in this commonwealth, which standards shall be accurately adjusted to the standards aforesaid; and thereupon he shall cause the same to be properly sealed or stamped, and to be delivered to the commissioners of the counties respectively, to be used as standards for the adjusting of weights and measures, and for no other purpose. Section 14. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of the respective counties, at least once in every ten years, and oftener if they have reason to believe it necessary, to cause the standards of the respective county to be examined and tried, and if necessary, to be corrected or renewed according to the standards aforesaid of the commonwealth, so that they shall be equal and in all respects conform and correspond thereto. Section 15. The duty of the inspection and regulation of weights and measures shall, in the several counties of this commonwealth, (except in the city and county of Philadelphia,) be performed by such competent person or persons as the commissioners of the respective counties shall, with the approbation of the court of Quarter Sessions of such county, designate. Section 16. Every person charged with the inspection and regulation of weights and measures as aforesaid, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, make oath or affirmation to perform the same with fidelity. Section 17. The persons who may be charged with the inspection and regulation of weights or measures as aforesaid, shall not be entitled to demand or receive any fee whatsoever for their services in that behalf; but they shall be paid for the same out of the county stock, according to contract with the commissioners of the respective county. They shall demand and receive for the use of the county, for every weight and measure regulated by them, such sum as the mechanical lab or employed in the regulation and sealing thereof shall be reasonably worth, and no more. Section 18. All weights and measures, and all beams, scales, and steel-yards, which shall be adjusted to the standards of the respective counties as aforesaid, by the officer charged with the duty of the inspection and regulation thereof, shall be authenticated or stamped by him with some sufficient brand or seal. Section 19. If any person charged with the duty of the inspection and regulation of weights and measures, shall unnecessarily, carelessly, or through want of skill, mar or injure any scale, beam, steel-yard, weight or measure while in his hands or possession for the purposes of his office, -the same being just and true, or susceptible of easy adjustment to the proper standard he shall furnish forthwith to the owner thereof, a correct scale, beam, steel-yard, weight or measure of the same kind and of equal value, or in default thereof, shall pay to such owner twice its value. Section 20. All guaging instruments used within this commonwealth shall be constructed so as to show the contents or ullage of any vessel or cask, according to the measures aforesaid. And if any person shall use any such instruments of any other construction or proportion, such person shall, before marking the contents of any cask or the ullage thereof, as shown by such instrument, reduce the same to standard measures aforesaid, under penalty of ten dollars for every neglect, for the use of any person who may be aggrieved thereby. Section 21. All weights and measures sold within this commonwealth, shall be deemed to have been warranted by the seller to correspond (according to the respective denomination) with the standards aforesaid. Section 22. Every person who shall sell or buy any article or merchandize or traffic, or any thing whatsoever, by any false yard, beam, scale, weight or measure, to the injury of another, the person selling or buying as aforesaid, being the owner of such yard, beam, scale, weight or measure, and not having had the same duly regulated and approved by a lawful standard within one year, shall forfeit thrice the value of the article so sold or bought, one half to the use of the county, and the other half to the use of the person aggrieved, to be recovered in one action founded on this act. Provided, that in no case shall the penalty aforesaid, be less than three dollars. Section 23. And if any person shall sell or buy any article of merchandize or traffic, or any thing whatsoever, by any false yard,beam, scale, weight or measure, knowing the same to be false, and intending thereby to deceive or defraud, such person shall be liable to indictment and punishment as in cases of misdemeanor. Section 24. An acre of land shall contain four thousand eight hundred and forty horizontal square yards of the standard yard aforesaid, or a surface which shall be equivalent thereto. Provided, that nothing in this section shall be deemed or taken to affect the allowance of any surplus quantity to which any person may be other. wise entitled, by virtue of any record, patent, deed, or other instrument or contract. Section 25. The standard dimensions of a cord of bark, or of wood for fuel, shall be eight feet in length, including one-half of the kerf, four feet in breadth, and four feet in height, containing one hundred and twentyeight feet of the standard foot aforesaid, in solid measure, well stowed and packed. And if any part of the wood be crooked, it shall be placed at the top of the cord or load, and a reasonable and fair allowance shall be made by all corders and venders of wood for the deficiency which may be occasioned by such crooked or uneven wood. Section 26. A hogshead of cider shall be deemed and taken to be one hundred and ten gallons thereof in wine measure, in all cases where there shall be no special agreement to the contrary. Section 27. The several kinds of grain hereinafter mentioned, may be estimated and sold by weight avordupois, as follows, to wit: Sixty pounds of wheat, fiftyeight pounds of rye, fifty-eight pounds of corn, fortyeight pounds of buckwheat, forty-seven pounds of |