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in the package shall also 'be branded upon it as hereinafter specified and
in addition to the other marks hereinafter specified.

An. Code, sec. 30. 1916, ch. 627, sec. 2.

33. The marks indicating grade as above prescribed may be accom-
panied by any other designation of grade or brand if that designation of
grade or brand is not inconsistent with or marked more conspicuously than
the one of the said five marks which is used on the said package. Apples
packed and branded in accordance with United States law approved August
third, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be exempt from the provisions of
this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1916, ch. 627, sec. 3.

34. (a) The minimum size of the fruit in all classes or grades shall
be determined by taking the transverse diameter of the smallest fruit in the
package at right angles to the stem and blossom end. Minimum sizes shall
be stated in variations of one-quarter of an inch, like two inches, two and
one-quarter inches, two and one-half inches, two and three-quarter inches,
three inches, three and one-quarter inches, and so on, in accordance with
the facts.

(b) Minimum sizes may be designated by figures instead of words.
The word " minimum" may be designated by using the abbreviation
" min."

(c) A tolerance or variation of five per centum on size shall be allowed
in all classes, but such five per centum shall not be in addition to the varia-
tions or tolerances for defects provided in grades " Fancy," "A" and " B."

An. Code, sec. 32. 1916, ch. 627, sec. 4.

35. (a) Every closed package containing apples grown in the State
of Maryland which is sold, offered or exposed for sale, or packed for sale,
or transported for sale by any person shall bear upon the outside of one end
in plain letters and figures the name and address of the packer or the person
by whose authority the apples were packed and the package marked, the
true name of the variety, the grade or class of the apples therein contained
and the minimum size of the fruit in the packages. If the true name of
the variety shall not be known to the packer or the person by whose authority
the package is packed or branded, then such variety shall be designated as
" variety unknown." Every package of apples which is repacked shall bear
the name and address of the repacker or the name of the person by whose
authority it is repacked in place of that of the original packer.

(b) The brands or marks as prescribed by this sub-title shall be in block
letters and figures of size of not less than thirty-six point Gothic.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person within the State to sell, offer or
expose for sale, or pack for sale, or transport for sale apples which are
adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this sub-title.