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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
Volume 375, Page 3038   View pdf image (33K)
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3038 ARTICLE 97.

any person using a barrel for the measurement of peas, beans and like farm
products without being so stamped shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, said fines to be collected as other
fines are now collected.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1914, ch. 802.

22. If any barrel for the measurement of green peas, or beans, in the
hull when sold by the bushel in this State, which shall have been stamped
as provided for in Section 21 of this Article, shall be broken, injured,
altered, or changed, or condemned by the inspector, and shall be found
thereafter in the use of any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employe,
or officer of any person, firm or corporation, within the State, such person,
firm, or corporation, or agent, employe, or officer of such person, firm, or
corporation, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 21. 1914, ch. 802.

23. The standard barrel for the shipment or sale by the barrel of pears,
quinces, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, green peas, beans, cabbage,
beets, parsnips, carrots, kale, spinach, broccoli, onions, and all other fruits
and vegetables grown and packed in this State, or grown elsewhere and
packed or repacked in this State, shall be of not less than the following
dimensions: Diameter of top and bottom, sixteen and one-half inches;
diameter of bulge, eighteen and one-half inches—both inside measurements,
length of stave twenty-seven and one-half inches.

An. Code, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 802.

24. The standard double-head barrel for the shipment or sale by the
barrel of apples grown and packed in this State, or grown elsewhere and
packed or repacked in this State, shall be of the following dimensions: Head
diameter, seventeen and one-eighth inches (17 1/8), regardless of the depth of
the chine in the staves; distance between heads, twenty-six inches (26);
inside measurement; circumference at the bulge, sixty-four inches (64:),
outside measurement.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1914, ch. 802.

25. Any person, firm or corporation in this State who manufactures,
sells, offers for sale, or has in his, her, or its possession barrels, baskets, or
boxes of the capacities defined in Sections 20, 23 and 24 of this Article, and
if of less capacities than are defined in said Sections 20, 23 and 24, must
plainly mark in three conspicuous places on the exterior sides of said bar-
rels, baskets, or boxes, in letters not less than one and one-half inches high
the word " Short." Any person, firm, or corporation, or agent, employe, or
officer of any person, firm, or corporation, violating any of the provisions of
this Section shall be fined not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars
for each offense; and the use, sale, or manufacture of each barrel, basket,
box, half-box, or half-basket, not marked as designated herein shall constitute
a separate offense.

 

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