ART. 27.] FRAUD—FRUlT AND VEGETABLE PACKING. 495

Fraud-Fruit and Vegetable Packing.

1884, ch. 407, sec. 1.

100. Every person, firm or corporation, now engaged or who
may hereafter engage in the business of canned fruits, vegetables
and other products, and who shall can or preserve in cans by her-
metically sealing any description of fruits or vegetables that have
been previously evaporated or dried by the application of heat,
and known under the general name of dried fruits and vege-
tables, shall stamp, or cause to be stamped in the cap covering
the mouth of the can into which the said dried fruits or vege-
tables are to be put up or canned, the following words "soaked
goods," as also the bona fide name of the person, firm or corpora-
tion canning the said dried fruits or vegetables; and the said
words to be stamped in the cap of the can shall be of letters not
less than three-sixteenths of one inch in height, and one-six-
teenth of an inch in breadth.

Ibid. sec. 2.

101. Any person, firm or corporation, who shall neglect to
comply with the provisions of the preceding section, and every
person or persons who shall render illegible, conceal or hide in
any manner the words to be stamped in the cap of the can, as
mentioned in said section, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a tine
of not less than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indict-
ment in any court of this State having competent jurisdiction for
the trial of misdemeanors; and one-half of said fine shall be paid
to the informer, and the other half into the treasury of the State.

1886, ch. 496, sec. 1.

102. It shall be unlawful in this State for any packer of or
dealer in hermetically canned or preserved fruits, vegetables or
other articles of food, excepting oysters, to sell such canned or
preserved fruits, vegetables or other articles of food, unless the
cans, jars or vessels which contain the same shall bear the name
and address of the person, firm or corporation that canned or
packed the article, or the name of the dealer who purchases the
same from the packer or his agent; such name, address or place