36 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Fraud-Fruit and Vegetable Packing.

1000, ch. 373.

104A. An apple barrel shall be of the following dimensions:
Head diameter, seventeen and one eighth inches; length of stave,
twenty-eight and one-half inches; bulge, not less than sixty-four
inches, outside measurement; and every person, firm or corpora-
tion buying or selling apples in this State by the barrel shall be
understood as referring to the quantity or size of the barrel
specified in this section; provided, however, that nothing in this
section shall prevent any shipment of apples in the regular flour
barrel.

Fraud—Sterling and Coin Silver.

1900, ch. 398.

119C. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes or sells, or
offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or her possession with
intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked,
stamped or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling
silver, " or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover or
wrapper, or other thing in, by or with which the said article is
packed, enclosed or otherwise prepared for sale or disposition,
having thereupon any engraving or printed label, stamp, imprint,
mark or trade-mark, indicating or denoting by such marking,
stamping, branding, engraving or printing that such article is
silver, sterling silver, or solid silver, unless nine hundred and
twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal
of which the said article is manufactured is pure silver, is guilty
of a misdemeanor.

Ibid.

119D. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes or sells, or
offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or her possession with
intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked,
stamped or branded with the words "coin" or "coin silver, " or
encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover or wrapper, or
other thing in, by or with which the said article is packed,
enclosed or otherwise prepared for sale or disposition, having
thereupon an engraving or printed label, stamp, imprint, mark
or trade-mark, indicating or denoting by such marking, stamping,