1058 OYSTERS—PACKING. [ART. 72.

1884, ch. 76, sec. 8.

50. Nothing in the five preceding sections shall be construed
in any way to impair, alter or abridge any rights which either
State, or the citizens thereof, may be entitled to, either by,
through, under or against the compact entered into between the
States of Maryland and Virginia, on the twenty-eighth day of
March, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, or any existing law of
either of said two States.

Packing Oysters.

1884, ch 257, aec. 1.

51. Every person, firm, joint stock company or corporation
packing for sale in this State in hermetically sealed tin cans oys-
ters, commonly known as "cove oysters," by whatsoever name or
names the same may be known, shall stamp or cause to be stamped,
in legible letters and figures, the words " oysters" in the cap or
end of each can, and also the true weight in ounces of the oysters
in each of said cans, after the liquor or water is properly drained
off, which draining of liquor or water shall consist in pouring the
contents on a number ten (10) sieve, and allowing it to drain for
one minute before weighing; and any sale of such packed oysters
not so stamped shall be void, and the vendor shall not be entitled
to recover the price thereof.

Ibid sec. 2.

52. Every person, firm, joint stock company or corporation
who or which shall sell or offer to sell, or have in his or its pos-
session, with intent to sell contrary to the provisions of the preced-
ing section, any oysters hermetically seaied in tin cans, and re-
quired by said section to be stamped as therein stated, not so
stamped, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined one hundred dollars for each offence,
to be paid to the State treasury and placed to the credit of the
oyster packers' fund, and shall also forfeit the oysters not so
stamped, to be destroyed by the examiner provided for in the
succeeding section, unless already destroyed as hereinafter pro-
vided.