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state, and shall pay for the same the sum of fifty dollars for a 

 single brand, and fifteen dollars for each additional brand offered for 

 sale ; and shall furnish the secretary of the board of managers, at 

 the time of their appointment, the names of all agents authorized by 

 him to sell the same in this state. 



Section 9. This act shall not apply to the article known as 

 porgy chum, or fish scrap, or fish waste of any kind, or bone, when 

 offered for sale unmixed with other fertilizing material ; nor shall it 

 apply to parties manufacturing fertilizers in quantities less than 

 twenty- five tons per year, or to fertilizers in possession of dealers or 

 agents at the time of approval of this act. 



Section 10. The director of the station, or any person by him 

 deputized, is hereby empowered to select from three different parcels 

 or packages of commercial fertilizers, taken from three different 

 sections of the state, held or oflfered for sale in this state, quantities 

 not exceeding two pounds from each package, which quantities shall 

 be for analysis, the average of the several anal3'ses shall be taken 

 to compare with the certificate found on the given packages, held or 

 oflfered for sale ; and he shall select each year, at least three samples, 

 as aforesaid, from each brand held for sale, and shall secure these 

 analyses at the station. Tiie agent shall select these samples, in the 

 presence of some representative of the company, from which the 

 quantities are so selected, and shall deliver one- half of said samples, 

 properly sealed by him, to said representative. 



Section 11. The secretary of the board of managers shall 

 register, in a suitable book kept in his office, a list of all licenses 

 issued, and of fees received therefor, and a list of all brands of 

 fertilizers sampled ; and all license fees received b}- the board of 

 managers shall be paid into the treasury of the state. 



Section 12. Any person or party, who shall oflfer or expose for 

 sale any commercial fertilizer, without complying with the require- 

 ments of sections seven and eight of this act, or shall permit an 

 analysis to be attached to any package of such fertilizer, stating that 

 it contain a larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents 

 named in section seven of this act than it really does contain, shall 

 be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hun- 

 dred dollars for the first oflfense, and not less than two hundred 

 dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent 

 oflfense ; and the offender shall, in all cases, also, be lial)le for 



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