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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 officer or agent of the depart- 

 ment; the sale to be made at the courthouse door in the county in which 

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

 published in said county, or if no newspaper is published in said county, then 

 by like advertisement in a newspaper published in the nearest county thereto 

 having a newspaper. The 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 proceed- 

 ings connected therewith. The net proceeds from such sale shall be placed 

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



Sec. 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 the value of said deficiency be made good to all persons who, in 

 the opinion of the Commissioner, have purchased the said meal; and the 

 Commissioner may seize any meal belonging to said company, to the value of 

 the deficiency, if the deficiency shall not be paid within thirty (30) days after 

 notice to the company. If the Commissioner shall be satisfied that the de-> 

 ficiency in analysis was due to intention or fraud of the manufacturer, then 

 the Commissioner shall assess and collect from the manufacturer twice the 

 amount of the deficiency and pay over the same to parties who purchased said 

 meal. That if any manufacturer shall resist such collection or payment the 

 Commissioner shall immediately publish the analysis and the facts in The 

 Buxeetin and in such newspapers in the State as he may deem necessary. 



Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer to adulterate cotton-seed 

 meal in the process of manufacture or otherwise. 



Sec. 9. This act shall be in force from and after July first, nineteen hundred 

 and five (1905). 



In the General Assembly read three times, and ratified this the 17th day of 

 February, A. D. 1905. 



