Packer

A person employed in England by merchants to receive and (in some instances) to select goods from manufacturers, dyers, calenders, etc., and pack the same for exportation.

Arch. Rankr., 11th ed. 37.

In the United States, one engaged in the business of slaughtering and packing cattle, sheep and hogs preparing their products for sale. Their business is not interstate commerce; U. S. v. Boyer, 85 Fed. 425; merely because the yards are located in two states and it does business in both, though, as to stock shipped from one state to another, it may be interstate commerce and to that extent exempt from state regulation; (Jotting v. Stock Yards Co., 79 Fed. (>79. The acts of congress (1 Supp. Rev. Stat. 97,7, and 2 Supp. Rev. Stat. 403) whereby the Secretary of Agriculture is empowered to have made a careful inspection of cattle, etc., at slaughter houses located in the several states, the products of which are intended for sale in other states or in foreign countries, wore held unconstitutional in U. S. v. Boyer, 85 Fed. 425. They may be subjected to a license tax by a state for doing business therein; Kehrcr v. Stewart, 197 TJ. S. GO, 25 Sup. Ct. 403, 49 L. Ed. (>G3; Armour Packing Go. v. Lacy, 200