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Sec. 144. Fertilizer; what included in <erm.— The term "fertilizer," or 

 ""commercial fertilizer," as used in this article, does not include common 

 lime, land plaster, cotton seed, cotton seed meal, ashes, or common salt not 

 in combination. 



Sec. 145. Chemist of Department.— The Professor of Chemistry of the Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College is the official chemist of the Department. 

 On the application of the Commisioner he must analyze and certify the analy- 

 sis of all fertilizers, samples of which are furnished him, and at the request 

 of the Commissioner, if he can without conflict with his duties as professor, 

 must attend conventions of agricultural chemists, make reports of such mat- 

 ters as he may deem of intere-^t to the Department, and render such other 

 services in the line of his profession as the Commissiotier may require. 



Sec. 146. Compensation of Chemist.— The Chemist is entitled to such com- 

 pensation as the Commissioner may deem reasonable ; not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars annuallv ; and also to his necessary traveling expenses, 

 while on duty assigned to him by the Commissioner ; payable from the funds 

 of the Department, on the certificate of the Commissioner. 



Sec. 147. Copy of official analgsis; evidence.— The copy of the official 

 analysis of any fertilizer or chemical, under the seal of the Department of 

 Agriculture, shall be admissible as evidence in any of the courts of the State, 

 on the trial of any issue involving the merits of such fertilizer or chemical. 



*This section is amended by the following : 



No. 38S.1 AN ACT [n. n. 506. 



To amend Section 7 of an act entitled an act to establish a department of 

 agriculture for the State of Alabama, approved February 23, 1883. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of Alabama, That section 

 7 of an act entitled an act to establish a department of agrionltnre for the 

 State of Alabama, approved February 23, IS83, be. and the eame is hereby 

 amended so as to read as follows : Section 7. Be it further enncted. That 

 it shall be the dutv of the auditor to have printed tags of ^uit•lbl'-< material, 

 with proper fastenings for attaching the same to packages, bags or liarreis of 

 fertilizers, and there shall be printed thereon the word "Guaranteed," with 

 the year or seas^on in which thev are to be used, which snid tags must be 

 signed by the auditor and furnished by him to the commissioner of agricul- 

 ture, on the commissioner's requisition, to be accounted for by the commis- 

 sioner in monthly settlements. Said tags shall be furnished to any 

 dealer in or manufacturer of commercial fertilizers who shall have 

 complied with section 142 of the code of Alabama of 1886, upon pay- 

 ment by such dealers or manufacturers to the said commissioner of the sum 

 of twenty-five cents for a suflicient number thereof to tag a ton of such com- 

 mercial fertilizers. All tags remaining in the hands of the commissioner at 

 the end of the year shall be destroyed in the presence of the governor, secre- 

 tary of State and attorney-general," and the certificate of these officials shall 

 be the auditor's authority for giving the commissioner credit therefor. 



Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the price of tags as fixed at the sum of 

 twenty-five cents in section 1 of this act shall not take efi"ect nntd October 1, 

 1893. 



Sec 3. Beit further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict 

 ■with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 

 Approved February 21, 1893. 



