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1116 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 877
(3) The term Medium" shall mean eggs weighing at least
twenty-one ounces per dozen or, when packed in thirty-dozen
cases, eggs weighing at least forty pounds per case; but no in-
dividual egg contained in such dozen or thirty-dozen case shall
weigh at the rate per dozen less than twenty ounces.
(4) The term '"'Small" shall mean eggs weighing at least
eighteen ounces per dozen or, when packed in thirty-dozen
cases, eggs weighing at least thirty-four pounds per case; but
no individual egg contained in such dozen or thirty-dozen case
shall weigh at the rate per dozen less than fifteen ounces.
(5) The term "Unclassified" shall mean eggs ungraded as
to size.
Weights as used in this section shall be net weights and
shall not include the weight of any container.
(c) No person shall sell or offer to sell, to the retailer or
consumer, any eggs of a quality lower than that required for
eggs represented as "Fresh" as provided in Section 144 of this
sub-title, unless the same have been designated in respect to
quality as Grade B or Grade C in accordance with the mini-
mum requirements of official United States standards for con-
sumer grades for shell eggs. Said designation shall be plainly
and conspicuously shown in the -same manner as the designa-
tion of size. Any eggs not designated as Grade B or Grace C,
shall be presumed to be "Fresh", in allowing tolerance for
quality.
(d) (Tolerance. ) Two eggs in any dozen or ten per cent, by
count of the eggs in a thirty-dozen case, not having serious de-
fects, may be below the designated size or quality; but the sum
of said eggs below the designated size and quality shall not
exceed two eggs in any dozen or ten per cent, by count of the
eggs in a thirty-dozen case.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.
Approved April 27, 1945.
CHAPTER 877.
(House Bill 545)
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 894
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
and Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edition), title "Baltimore
City", sub-title "Police Examiners", providing that the
Police Commissioner shall appoint one policewoman to be
head of all policewomen, to have the rank of sergeant and to
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