Section 3. In addition to the requirements of section five of chapter three hun- 

 dred and eighty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, every manufacturer, 

 importer or other person who sells or offers or exposes for sale in this Declaration 

 commonwealth any commercial fertilizer shall, on or before the first sold and pay- 

 day of January and July in each year, beginning with January, nine- pe^naityfor' 

 teen hundred and nineteen, file with the director of the Massachusetts comply with 

 Agricultural Experiment Station a sworn statement in such form as the ol'^thhT'^^'^*^ 

 director may prescribe setting forth the number of net tons of fertilizer section, 

 sold by him in the commonwealth during the preceding six months, stating in each 

 case the number of tons of every brand sold, together with a permit allowing the di- 

 rector or his authorized deputy to examine the books of the person filing the state- 

 ment, for the purpose of verifying the same, and shall thereupon pay to the director 

 a fee of six cents a ton of two thousand pounds for the fertilizers so sold, except that 

 no such statement, permit or fee shall be required in respect of agricultural lime. 

 The said director or his authorized deputy shall have power to cancel the certificate 

 for any brand of fertilizer in respect to which the requirements of this section have 

 not been complied with, and any manufacturer, importer or other person who shall 

 sell or offer or expose for sale in this commonwealth a fertilizer or brand of fertilizer 

 without having filed the statement and permit and paid the fee required by this sec- 

 tion shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offence. 

 But no agent or other person shall be obliged to file a statement or permit, or pay the 

 fee required by this section, for any brand of fertilizer for which the statement and 

 permit have been filed and for which the fee has been paid by the manufacturer or 

 importer of such brand. The director is hereby authorized and it is made his duty 

 to collect the fee required by this section, and to turn over the same to be accounted 

 for and disbursed in accordance with the provisions of section ten of said chapter 

 three hundred and eighty-eight. [Approved May 21, 1918. 



Remarks. — As will be seen, this supplementary law, in section 1, defines 

 certain conditions which must be fulfilled or registration may be refused. The 

 substitution of section 1 of the new law for section 6 of the old law gives a 

 working basis for the executive to pass upon certain features which have de- 

 veloped within recent years and which could not have been foreseen when 

 chapter 388 of the Acts of 1911 "was passed. 



Section 2 simply gives the executive somewhat more freedom in prescrib- 

 ing and enforcing such rules and regulations as may be necessary to facilitate 

 the smooth working of the act. 



Section 3, the most important section of the act, will, it is hoped, provide 

 adequate income for carrying on the inspection work. It is not known for a 

 certainty just how much the 6-cent supplementary tonnage fee will increase 

 the revenue for this work, as no reliable statistics are available as to the ton- 

 nage of fertilizer sold in the State. It may be necessary later to increase this 

 tonnage fee if our estimates have been too high in regard to tonnage of fer- 

 tilizer sold. 



