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Penalty fixed. 



Section 14. Any person who adulterates or misbrands apples 

 within the meaning of this act, or who packs, repacks, sells, 

 distributes, or offers or exposes for sale or distribution, apples in 

 violation of any provision of this act, or who wilfully alters,, 

 effaces or removes, or causes to be altered, effaced or removed, 

 wholly or partly, any brands or marks required to be put upon 

 any closed package under the provisions of this act, shall be 

 punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offence, 

 and by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each subse- 

 quent offence. 



Certain Persons exempted and Liability placed. 



Section 15. No person who sells or distributes or offers or 

 exposes for sale or distribution apples adulterated or misbranded 

 within the meaning of this act shall be deemed to have violated 

 any of the provisions of this act, if it shall appear that he acted 

 in good faith solely as a distributor, or if he shall furnish a. 

 guaranty signed by the person from whom he received the 

 apples, with the address of such person, that the apples are not 

 adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act. In 

 such case, the person from whom the distributor received the 

 apples shall be liable for the acts of the distributor who relied 

 upon his guaranty, to the same extent as the distributor would 

 have been liable under the provisions of this act. 



"Person" and "Closed Package" defined. 



Section 16. The word "person", as used in this act shall 

 include persons, firms, corporations, societies and associations, 

 and the acts of agents and emploj^ees shall be construed to be the 

 acts of their principals and employers as well as of the agents 

 and employees. The words "closed package" shall mean_ a 

 barrel, box or other container the contents of which cannot be 

 sufficiently seen for purposes of inspection without opening the 

 container. 



The act took effect upon its ■passage, except that the provisions of 

 sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 

 fourteen, fifteen and sixteen were not operative until the first day^ 

 of July, in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen. 



