The Bulletin. 39 



Inspection and Analyses of Cotton-seed Meal. 



AN ACT TO REGULATK THE SALE AND INSPECTION OF COTTON- 

 SEED MEAL. 



[Chapter 267, Laws 1905.] 



T/ic (jcncral Assembly of \ortli Carolina do enact: 



Section I. That chapter three liundred and thirty-nine (3311) of the Public 

 Laws of one thousand 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 ins{)ection tax of twenty cents per ton, and be subject to inspection, 

 as other fertilizers or fertilizing materials, unless sold to manufacturers for use 

 in maniifacturing fertilizers. 



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

 for use in manufacturing fertilizers, shall have plainly branded on the bag con- 

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



L 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 (TVa) per cent, Meal 

 containing seven and one-half (7%) per cent or more of ammonia is standard 

 meal, and may be so brande<l. 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 manufacturers may 

 demand, upon paying the tax therefor. Any person \vilfully violating any of the 

 regulations made by the Board of Agriculture in connection 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 without 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. G. 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 cottonseed meal so sold or offered for sale shall 

 be subject to seizure, condemnation and sale by the Commissioner of Agriculture. 

 Such seizure and sale shall be made under the direction of the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture by an officer or agent of the department; 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 newsijaper published in said county, or if no news- 

 paper is published in said county, then by like advertisement in a newspaper 

 published in the nearest county thereto having a new^spapor. Tlie advertisement 

 shall state the grade of the meal, the quantity, why seized and offered for sale. 



The Commissioner, however, shall have the discretion to release the meal so 

 seized and condemned upon compliance with the law as set forth above and the 

 payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the department in any proceedings 

 connected tlieiewith. The net proceeds from such sale shall be placed in the 

 general fund of the department and accounted for upon its books. 



SoEC. 7. Whenever the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be satisfied that any 

 cotton-seed meal is essentially below the guaranteed analysis it shall be his duty 

 to assess said deficiency against the manufacturer of the meal and require that 



