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quent offence ; to be recovered on complaint before any 

 tribunal of competent jurisdiction. 



Sec. 49. Any purchaser of commercial manures bearing 

 such label and containing less percentage than stated therein, 

 may recover from the seller, in an action for debt, twenty- 

 five cents for every pound of soluble phosphoric acid, six 

 cents for every pound of insoluble phosphoric acid, and 

 thirty-five cents for every pound of ammonia deficient therein. 



Sec. 50. By the term soluble phosphoric acid, Avhenever 

 used, is meant such acid in any form or combination readily 

 soluble in pure water ; and by the term insoluble phosphoric 

 acid, is meant such acid in any combination which requires 

 the action of acid upon it to cause it to become readily soluble 

 in pure water. 



Sec. 51. The three preceding sections shall not apply to 

 porgy chum, nor any manure prepared exclusively from fish 

 and sold as such, nor to any commercial manure which is sold 

 at a price not exceeding one cent per pound, 



HAY. 



Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 38. 



Sec. 52. All hay, pressed and put up in bundles for sale in 

 this state, shall be branded on the bands or boards enclosing 

 it with the first letter of the christian and the whole of the 

 surname of the person putting up the same, and with the 

 name of the state and of the place where such person lives ; 

 and all pressed hay ofiered for sale or shipping, not thus 

 branded, shall be forfeited, one-half to the use of the town 

 where the ofience is committed, and the other half to the per- 

 son libeling the same. 



Sec. 53. Every bale of screwed or pressed hay may have 

 four pieces of seasoned board not more than four inches wide 

 or one inch thick to keep the hay in place, one of which, or 

 on one of the bands, shall be marked the weight and tare of 

 the bale, and such tare exceeding twelve pounds shall be 

 deducted when the hay is sold in bundles. No sworn Avcigher 



