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Sec. 5. Whenever a manufacturer, importer, agent or 

 seller of a commercial fertilizer desires at any time to sell such 

 material and has not paid the license fee therefor in the preced- 

 ing month of December, as required in section four, he shall pay 

 the license fee prescribed therein before offering or exposing the 

 material for sale. The license fee due in December shall cover 

 and authorize all sales within the state of the brands or kinds of 

 commercial fertilizer specified in the license for the calendar 

 year next succeeding that month. All licenses shall expire on 

 the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they are 

 issued. Whenever the manufacturer, importer or shipper of a 

 commercial fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes 

 shall have paid the license fee, no agent or seller of said manu- 

 facturer, importer or shipper shall be required to pay such fee. 



Sec. 6. The amount of the license fees received by said 

 director shall be paid by him to the state treasurer. So much of 

 the fees collected under this act shall be paid by the state treas- 

 urer to the treasurer of said experiment station as the director 

 of said experiment station may show by his bills has been ex- 

 pended in performing the duties required by this act, but in no 

 case to exceed the amount of the license fees received by the 

 state treasurer under this act, such payment to be made on or 

 before the thirtieth day of June upon the order of the state audi- 

 tor, who is hereby directed to draw his order for such purpose. 

 Tlie director shall annually publish a statement of the receipts 

 and expenditures under this act. 



Sec. 7. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale in 

 this state, leather or its products, hair, wool waste, garbage, 

 tankage or other inert nitrogenous material, as a fertilizer, or as 

 an ingredient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit printed state- 

 ment of the fact shall be conspicuously affixed to every package 

 of such fertilizer, and shall accompany every parcel or lot of 

 the same. 



Sec. 8. Any person knowingly selling, offering or expos- 

 ing for sale, a commercial fertilizer, without the statement re- 

 quired by section three of this act, or containing a smaller per- 

 centage of any one or more of the ingredients named therein, 

 other than chlorin, than is specified on the label, or for the sale 

 of which the license fee specified in section four has not been 

 paid or who fails to comply with any of the sections of this act, 

 subject to the exceptions cited in section twelve of this act, 

 shall, on conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction,, be fined 

 not more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and not more 

 than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sec. 9. The director of the Vermont agricultural experi- 

 ment station is hereby fully empowered and authorized, in per- 



