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of this act, subject to the exceptions cited in section twelve of this act, 

 shall, on conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not 

 more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and not more than one 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sec. 9. The director of the Vermont agricultural experiment station 

 is hereby fully empowered and authorized, in person or by deputy, to 

 enter any premises where commercial fertilizers are stored, and to take a 

 sample not exceeding two pounds in weight for analysis from any lot or 

 package of any commercial fertilizer, or material used for manurial pur- 

 poses, which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, 

 agent or dealer. Said sample shall not be less than five per cent, of the 

 whole lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and placed in a 

 suitable vessel, carefully sealed, and a label placed thereon stating the 

 name or brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the name of the 

 party from whose stock the sample was drawn, and the time and place of 

 drawing, and said label shall be signed by the director or his deputy, 

 provided, however, that whenever requested said sample shall be taken 

 in duplicate and carefully sealed in the presence of the party or parties 

 in interest or their representative, in which case one of said duplicate 

 samples shall be retained by the director and one by the party whose 

 stock was sampled. The sample or samples retained by the director 

 shall be for comparison with the certified statement named in section 

 three of this act. 



Sec. 10. Said director shall cause at least one sample of each brand 

 or kind of fertilizer collected as herein provided to be analyzed annually 

 and the results, together with such additional information in relation 

 to the character, composition, value and use of said fertilizer as cir- 

 cumstances may advise, shall be published in reports, bulletins, special 

 circulars or elsewhere, as promptly as the progress of the analyses will 

 allow and as frequently as time and means permit. 



Sec. 11. Any person who shall hinder, impede or obstruct the di- 

 rector or his deputy, while in the discharge of his duty under this act, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 

 shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hun- 

 dred dollars for each offense. 



Sec. 12. The director of the Vermont agricultural experiment station 

 upon ascertaining any violation of this act for the first time shall forth- 

 with notify the manufacturers or importers in writing and give them 

 not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the re- 

 quirements of this act. In case of second or subsequent violation by 

 the same party or parties, or in case, after a lapse of thirty days, the 

 requirements of this act remain still uncomplied with, it shall be the 

 duty of said director to notify the state's attorney of the county in 

 which the violation of this act is claimed to have occurred to the end 

 that the violator may be prosecuted; but there shall be no prosecution 

 in relation to the quality of the fertilizer or fertilizing material, if the 

 same shall be found to be substantially equivalent to the statement of 

 analysis made by the manufacturers or importers. 



