Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 74 of the
acts of 1927, entitled an act to regulate the grading and marking of apples
in closed packages; to authorize the commissioner of agriculture and mnmi-
gration to establish and promulgate official standard grades for apples
and rules and regulations governing the marking of the same; to provide
for the inspection of apples; the appointment of inspectors and their com-
pensation; to prohibit violations of this act and to prescribe penalties
therefor, approved April 18, 1927. [S B 182]

Approved February 29, 1928.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six of chapter seventy-tour of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-seven, entitled, an act to regulate the grading and marking
ot apples in closed packages ; to authorize the commissioner of ayri-
culture and immigration to establish and promulgate official stand-
ard grades for apples and rules and regulations governing the mark-
ing of the same; to provide for the inspection of apples; the ap-
puintment of inspectors and their compensation; to prohibit viola-
tions of this act and to prescribe penalties therefor, approved April
eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6. No person, firm or corporation shall be prosecuted
under the provisions of this act:

(a) When he or it can establish by satisfactory evidence that he
or it was not a party to the packing, grading or marking of such
apples.

(b) When he or it can establish that the apples offered for sale
have passed inspection by an authorized inspector of the State of
Virginia and bear the official Virginia State i inspection stamp, or by
an inspector of the United States department of agriculture and
found to be packed in accordance with the requirements of the com-
missioner of agriculture and immigration of Virginia.