ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 707

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That ten new sections be and they are here-
by added to Article 97 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1924 Edition), title "Weights and Measures, " to be under
sub-title "Cantaloupes, " said new sections to be known as
Sections 46A to 46J, inclusive, to follow immediately after
Section 46 of said Article and to read as follows:

46A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, cor-
poration, partnership or other association to buy, sell, ship,
offer or expose for sale or shipment, or place upon the
market, for human consumption, any cantaloupes in closed
containers, unless said cantaloupes are mature; and that
mature in the case of cantaloupes shall mean that the ap-
pearance of the outside indicates maturity, and the arils
which surround the seed during the development of ma-
turity have been absorbed and, in addition, that the juice
of the edible portion shall contain not less than eight per
cent soluble solids as determined by the Balling or Brix
scale hydrometer.

46B. The standard grades for cantaloupes as or when
promulgated by the United States Department of Agri-
culture as United States Government grades, are hereby
made the official State grades for all cantaloupes in the
State of Maryland, when packed in closed containers,
whether offered or exposed for sale or presented for intra-
state or interstate shipment, and that all closed containers,
the cantaloupes in which are offered or exposed for sale,
or presented for shipment, shall have plainly and con-
spicuously marked thereon the name and address of the
person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other association
producing or marketing the cantaloupes as well as the
true name of the variety. If the true name of the variety
is not known to the packer or the person by whom the
package is packed then such package shall be marked
"variety unknown. "

46C. The State Board of Agriculture, through its De-
partment of Markets of the Extension Service and the duly
authorized agents of said Department of Markets, is here-
by authorized, empowered and directed to enforce, the pro-
visions of this sub-title, and to define, promulgate and en-
force such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary
to secure uniformity in the enforcement of this sub-title
and the proper marking of closed containers for canta-