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pies shall be retained by the Director and the other by the party 

 whose stock was sampled; and the sample or samples retained by the 

 Director shall be for comparison with the certified statement named 

 in section one hundred and twenty-two of this article. The result 

 of the analyses of the sample or samples so procured, together with 

 such additional information as circumstances advise, shall be pub- 

 lished in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



125. Penalty for violation of article. Any manufacturer, importer, 

 or person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale or for distribution 

 in this State any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, without 

 complying with the requirements of this article, or any feeding stuff 

 which contains substantially a smaller percentage of constituents 

 than are certified to be contained, 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. 



126. Adulterated meal or ground grain ; 'penalty. Any person who 

 shall adulterate any kind of meal or ground grain with milling or 

 manufacturing offals, or any other substance whatever, for the pur- 

 pose of sale, unless the true composition, mixture or adulteration 

 thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon .the package containing 

 the same or in which it is offered for sale; or any person who know 

 ingly sells, or offers for sale any meal or ground grain which has 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 be fined not less than 

 twenty-five or more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 



127. Violation to he reported to the Commissioner oj. Agriculture. 

 Whenever the Director becomes cognizant of the violation of any of 

 the provisions of this article, he shall report such violation to thfe 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, and said Commissioner of Agriculture 

 shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported; but it shall be 

 the duty of said Commissioner upon thus ascertaining any violation 

 of this article, to forthwith notify the manufacturer, importer or 

 dealer in writing and give him not less than thirty days thereafter 

 in which to comply with the requirements of this article; but there 

 shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of any concentrated 

 commercial feeding stuff if the same shall be found substantially 

 equivalent to the certified statement named in section one hundred 

 and twenty-two of this article. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect December first, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine. 



