496 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

of business shall be plainly printed on the label in letters not
less than three-sixteenths of an inch in height and one-eighth of
an inch in breadth, together with a brand, mark or term indicat-
ing clearly the grade or quality of the article contained therein.

1886, ch. 496, sec 2.

103. All packers and dealers in soaked goods put up from,
products dried or cured, before canning and sealing shall, in
addition to complying with the provisions of the preceding sec-
tion, cause to be printed plainly, diagonally across the face of the
label, in good legible type, one-half of an inch in height and
three-eighths of an inch in width, the words "soaked goods."

Ibid. sec. 3.

104. Any person violating any of the provisions of the two
preceding sections, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than,
one thousand dollars for each offence, to be recorered by indict-
ment in any court of this State having criminal jurisdiction; one-
half of this fine shall be paid to the informer, and the other half
to the State treasury.

Fraud upon Gas Companies.

1886, ch. 222, sec. 1.

105. Any person who, with intent to injure or defraud any
gas company, body corporate of this State, shall make, or cause-
to be made, any pipe, tube or other instrument or contrivance, or
connect the same, or cause it to be connected, with any main
service pipe or other pipe for conducting or supplying illumi-
nating gas, in such manner as to connect with and be calculated
to supply illuminating gas to any burner or orifice by or at which,
illuminating gas is consumed, around or without passing through
the meter provided for the measuring and registering the quan-
tity of gas there consumed, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by im-
prisonment not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars, or both, in the discretion of the
court.