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Sect. 8. Any person who shall adulterate any whole or 

 ground grain with milling or manufactured offals, or with any 

 foreign substance whatever, or any bran or middlings made from 

 the several grains with any foreign substance whatever, for the 

 purpose of sale, unless the true composition, mixture or aaultera- 

 tion thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon the packages 

 containing the same, or in which it is offered for sale; or any 

 person who sells or offers for sale any whole or ground grain, 

 bran or middlings which have been so adulterated, unless the 

 true composition, mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or 

 indicated upon the package containing the same, or in which it is 

 offered for sale, shall on conviction in a court of competent juris- 

 diction be fined not more than one, hundred dollars for the first 

 offence, and not more than two hundred dollars for each subse- 

 quent offence. 



Sect. 9. Whenever the director of the ]^Iaine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station becomes cognizant of the violation of any 

 of the provisions of this act, he shall forthwith report such viola- 

 tion to the commissioner of agriculture, and said commssioner 

 shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported. But there 

 shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of any concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuff' if the same shall be found in its 

 constituent parts substantially equivalent to the certified state- 

 ment named in section one of this act. 



Sect. 10. Chapter three hundred thirty-four (334) of the 

 Public Laws of one thousand eight hundred ninety-seven (1897) 

 and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



Sect. II. This act shall take effect June first, one thousand 

 nine hundred and three. 



AN ACT to provide for the protection of trees and shrubs from 



injurious insects and disease. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 Legislature assembled, as follows : 



Section I. All nursery stock shipped into this state from any 

 other state, country or province shall bear on each box or pack- 

 age a certificate that the contents of said box or package have 

 been inspected by a duly authorized inspecting officer, and that 

 said contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects or 



