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Section 4. Before any mannfacturer, company or persons shall 

 sell or oiler or expose for sale in this State any concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stutfs as defined in section three of this act, he or 

 they shall for each and every feeding stuft bearing a distinguishing 

 name or trade mark, file with the Director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station a certified copy of the statement named in sec- 

 tion one of thi« act, said certified copy to be accompanied, when the 

 Director shall so request, by sealed glass jar or bottle containing 

 at least one pound of feeding stuff to be sold or offered for sale, 

 and the company or person furnishing said sample shall thereupon 

 make affidavit that said sample corresponds within reasonable limits 

 to the feeding stuffs it represents, in the percentage of protein and 

 fat which it contains. 



Section 5. Each manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any 

 concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in section three 

 of this act, shall pay to the Director of the Maine Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station an inspection tax of ten cents per ton for each ton 

 of such concentrated feeding stuff sold or offered for sale in the 

 State of Maine, and shall affix to each car shipped in bulk and to each 

 bag, barrel or other package of such concentrated feeding stuff, a 

 tag to be furnished by said Director, stating that all charges specified 

 in this section have been paid. The Director of said Experiment 

 Station is hereby empowered to prescribe the forms for such tags, 

 and adopt such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement 

 of the law. Whenever the manufacturer or importer or shipper of a 

 concentrated feeding stuff shall have filed the statement made in 

 section one of this act and paid the inspection tax, no agent or seller 

 of said manufacturer, importer or shipper shall be required to file 

 such statements or pay such tax. The amount of the inspection tax 

 received by said Director shall be paid by him into the treasury of the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. The treasurer of said Sta- 

 tion shall make an annual report of the receipts and expenditures of 

 funds from this inspection tax, and all receipts in excess of three 

 thousand dollars shall be carried into the State treasury. 



Section 6. Any manufacturer, importer or person who shall sell, 

 or offer or expose for sale or for distribution in this State any con- 

 centrated commercial feeding stuffs, as defined in section three of 

 this act, without complying with the requirements of the preceding 

 section of this act, or any feeding stuff which contains substantially 

 a smaller percentage of constituents than are certified to be con- 

 tained, shall, on conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, be 

 fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not 

 more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Section 7. The Director of the Maine Experiment Station shall 

 annually analyze, or cause to be analyzed, at least one sample to be 



