EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1305

SEC. 2. The marks indicating grade as above prescribed
may be accompanied by any other designation of grade or brand
if that designation of grade or brand is not inconsistent with
or marked more conspicuously than the one of the said five
marks which is used on the said package. Apples packed and
branded in accordance with the United States law approved
August third, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be -exempt
from the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 3. (a) The minimum size of the fruit in all classes
or grades shall be determined by taking the transverse diameter
of the smallest fruit in the package at right angles to the stem
and blossom end. Minimum sizes shall be stated in variations
of one-quarter of an inch, like two inches, two and one-quarter
'| inches, two and one-half inches, two and three-quarter inches,
three inches, three and one-quarter inches, and so on, in ac-
cordance with the facts.

(b) Minimum sizes may be designated by figures instead
of words. The word "minimum" may be designated by using
the abbreviation "min. "

(e) A tolerance or variation of five per centum on size shall
be allowed in all classes, but such five per centum shall not be
in addition to the variations or tolerances for defects provided
in grades "Fancy, " "A" and "B. "

SEC. 4. (a) Every closed package containing apples grown
in the State of Maryland which is sold, offered or exposed for
sale, or packed for sale, or transported for sale by any person
shall bear upon the outside of one end in plain letters and
figures the name and address of the packer or the person by
whose authority the apples were packed and the package mark-
ed, the true name of the variety, the grade or class of the
apples therein contained and the minimum size of the fruit in
the packages. If the true name of the variety shall not be
known to the packer or the person by whose authority the
package is packed or branded, then such variety shall be
designated as "variety unknown. " Every package of apples
which is repacked shall bear the name and address of the re-
packer or the name of the person by whose authority it is re-
packed in place of that of the original packer.

(b) The brands or marks as prescribed by this Act shall be
in block letters and figures of size of not less than thirty-six
point Gothic.