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thorize for the purpose, shall have full access, ingies«j aud egress to 

 all places of business, factories, farms, buildings, carriages, cars 

 and vessels, used in the manufacture, transportation or sale of any 

 commercial fertilizer. They shall also have power to open any pack- 

 age or vessel coutaiuing, or supposed to contain any commercial fer- 

 tilizer, and to take therefrom samples for analysis upon tendering 

 the value of said samples. 



Section 5. Any person celling, offering, or exposing for sale, any 

 commercial fertilizer without the analysis required by section one of 

 this act, or with an analysis stating that it contains a larger percent- 

 age of any one or more of the above named constituents than is con- 

 tained therein, or for the sale of which all the provisions of section 

 two have not been complied with, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, 

 and on conviction shall forfeit a sum not less than twenty-five and 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less 

 than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. It shall be 

 the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions 

 of this act, and all penalties, costs and fines recovered shall be paid 

 to him or his duly authorized agent, and by him be immediately' paid 

 into the State Treasury, to constitute a special fund to be used in 

 accordance with the provisions of section six of this act. 



Section 6, The money paid into ihe Treasury under the provisions 

 of this act shall constitute a special fund, from v/hich the cost of 

 selecting samples, making analyses, and other expenses incident to 

 the carrying into effect the provisions of this act, shall be paid: Pro- 

 vided, That the total amount thus expended shall in no case exceed 

 the amount paid into the Treasury. 



Section 7. The term "commercial fertilizers," as used in this act, 

 shall be taken to mean -any and every substance imported, manu- 

 factured, prepared or sold for fertilizing or manuring purposes, ex- 

 cept barnyard manure, marl, lime, and wood ashes, and not exempt 

 by the provisions of section one of this act. 



Section 8. This act shall go into effect on and after the thirty-first 

 day of December, one thousand uine hundred and one. All acts or 

 parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, except 

 that existing law^- are to continue in force until this act goes into 

 effect. 



Approved— The 2r)th day of March, A. D. 1901. 



