62 The Bulletin. 



INSPECTION AND ANALYSIS OF COTTON-SEED MEAL. 



AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE AND INSPECTION OF COTTON- 

 SEED MEAL. 



[Chapter 267, Laws 1905.] 



The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 



Section 1. That chapter three hundred and thirty-nine (339) of the Public 

 Laws of one thousaud nine hundred and three (1903), entitled "An act to regu- 

 late the sale, inspection and branding of cotton-seed meal," be amended so as 

 to read as follows : 



Sec. 2. That all cotton-seed meal sold for use as fertilizer or feed shall be 

 subject to an inspection tax of twenty cents per ton, and be subject to inspec- 

 tion, as other fertilizers or -fertilizing materials, unless sold to manufacturers 

 for use in manufacturing fertilizers. 



Sec. 3. That all cotton-seed meal offered for sale, unless sold to manufac- 

 turers for us^e in manufacturing fertilizers, shall have plainly branded on the 

 bag containing it, or on a tag attached thereto, the following data : 



1. Cotton-seed meal with brand. 



2. Weight of package. 



3. Ammonia or nitrogen. 



4. Name and address of manufacturer. 



Sec. 4. That no person or persons, firm or corporation shall offer for sale 

 any cotton-seed meal, except as provided in section three of this act, with a 

 minimum per cent of ammonia of less than seven and one-half (714 ) per cent. 

 Meal containing seven and one-half (7i/^) per cent or more of ammonia is 

 standard meal, and may be so branded. Meal containing eight (8) per cent 

 or more of ammonia is high-grade meal, and may be so branded. 



Sec. 5. That the State Board of Agriculture is empowered and directed to 

 make such rules and regulations as are necessary to a proper carrying into 

 effect the provisions of this act, and to provide for all such tags as manufac- 

 turers may demand, upon paying the tax therefor. Any person wilfully 

 violating any of the regulations made by the Board of Agriculture in con- 

 nection with this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person or persons, 

 firm or corporation who shall sell or offer for sale any cotton-seed meal with- 

 out having the proper tax tags attached thereto, or who shall use the required 

 tags the second time to avoid the payment of the tonnage charge, and every 

 person who shall remove any such meal, shall be liable to a penalty of ten 

 dollars ($10) for each separate bag. barrel or other package sold or offered 

 for sale or removed, to be recovered by any person who may sue for the 

 same. 



Sec. 6. That any person or persons, firm or corporation who shall sell or 

 offer for sale any cotton-seed meal contrary to the provisions above set forth 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and all cotton-seed meal so sold or offered 

 for sale shall be subject to seizure, condemnation and sale by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture. Such seizure and sale shall be made under the direc- 

 tion of the Commissioner of Agriculture by an orticer or agent of the depart- 

 ment; the sale to be made at the court-house door in the county in which 

 the seizure is made, after thirty (30) days' advertisement in some newspaper 



