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number of packages which shall be not less than ten per cent, of 

 the whole lot inspected, and shall be thorouglily mixed and then 

 divided into two equal samples and placed in glass vessels and 

 carefully sealed and a label placed on each, stating the name or 

 brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the name of the party 

 from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and place 

 of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the director or 

 his deputy and by the party or parties in interest or their represent- 

 atives present at the drawing and sealing of said sample ; one of 

 said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the 

 other by the party whose stock was sampled. All parties violat- 

 ing this act shall be prosecuted by the director of said station ; 

 but it shall be the duty of said director, upon ascertaining any 

 violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturer or im- 

 porter in writing, and give him not less than thirty days thereafter 

 in which to comply with the requirements of this act, but there 

 shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of the fertilizer 

 or fertilizing material if the same shall be found substantially 

 equivalent to the statement of analysis made by the manufacturer 

 or importer. 



Sect. 8. Sections eleven to sixteen inclusive of chapter sixty 

 of the Public Statutes are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of September 

 in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. \_Approved May 

 5, 1888. 



Instructions issued at the Beginning of the Season, to Dealers in 

 Commercial Fertilizers. 



1 . An application for a certificate of compliance with the regu- 

 lations of the trade in commercial fertilizers and materials used 

 for manurial purposes in this State must be accompanied : — 



First, with a distinct statement of the name of each brand 

 offered for sale. 



Second, with a statement of the amount of phosphoric acid, of 

 nitrogen and of potassium oxide, guaranteed in each distinct brand. 



Third, with the fee charged by the State for a certificate, which 

 is five dollars for each of the following articles : nitrogen, phos- 

 phoricacid and potassium oxide, guaranteed in any distinct brand. 



2. The obligation to secure a certificate applies not only to 

 compound fertilizers, but to all substances, single or compound, 

 used for manurial purposes, and offered for sale at ten dollars or 

 more per ton of two thousand pounds. 



3. The certificate must be secured annually before the 1st of 

 May. 



