The acre for land measure shall be measured horizontally and contain ten square chains and be equivalent in area to a rectangle sixteen rods in length and ten rods in breadth, six hundred and forty such acres being contained in a square mile. The chain for measuring land shall be twenty-two yards long, and be divided into one hundred equal parts, called links.
[C73, § 2041; C97, § 3011; S13, § 3009-d; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3229; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 210.3]
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