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rector is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a 

 sample not exceeding - two pounds in weight for analysis from 

 any lot or package of concentrated commercial feeding stuff 

 which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, import- 

 er, agent or dealer in this state; but said sample shall be 

 drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest, or 

 their representatives, and shall be taken from a parcel or num- 

 ber of packages which shall not be less than five per cent, of 

 the whole lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and 

 then divided into two equal samples and placed in glass or 

 metal vessels, carefully sealed and a label placed on each stat- 

 ing the name or brand of the feeding stuff or material sam- 

 pled, the name of the party from whose stock the sample was 

 drawn, and the time and place of drawing the said label shall 

 be signed by the director or his deputy and by the parties or 

 party in interest, or their representative, present at the draw- 

 ing and sealing of said samples; one of said duplicate samples 

 shall be retained by the director and other by the party 

 whose stock was sampled, and the sample or samples retained 

 by the director shall be for comparison with the certifisp 

 statements named in sections 1 and 4 of this act. The result 

 of the analysis of the sample or samples so procured, together 

 with such additional information as circumstances advise shall 

 be published in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



Sec. 9. The director of the Vermont Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station shall notify the State treasurer of all viola- 

 tions of this act, and the State treasurer shall commence a suit 

 in the name of the State against the party or parties thus re- 

 ported. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, upon ascertain- 

 ing any violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manu- 

 facturers and importers, in writing, and to give them not less 

 than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the re- 

 quirements of this act. But there shall be no prosecution in 

 relation to the quality of any concentrated commercial feed- 

 ing stuff if the same shall be found to be substantially equiv- 

 alent to the statement of analysis made by the manufacturers 

 or importers. 



Sec. 10. The term importer, for all the purposes of this 

 act. shall be taken to mean all who procure or sell concentra- 

 ted commercial feeding stuffs. 



Sec. 11. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this 

 act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 12. " This act shall take effect July 1st. 1899. 



Approved November 29, 1898. 



