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[laws of 1896.] 



shall have paid the fee herein required for auy person acting as agent 

 or seller for such manufacturer or importer, such agent or seller shall 

 not be required to pay the fee named in this section ; and on receipt 

 of said analysis fees and statement specified in section two the 

 director of said station shall issue certificates of compliance with 

 this act. 



Sect. 4. No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale in this 

 Commonwealth any pulverized leather, hair or wool tvaste, raw, 

 steamed, roasted or in any form as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of 

 any fertilizer or manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the 

 fact, said certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package of 

 such fertilizer or manure, and to accompany or go with every parcel 

 or lot of the same. 



Sect. 5. Any person selling or offering or exposing for sale any 

 commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the first sec- 

 tion of this act, or with a label stating that said fertilizer contains a 

 larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents mentioned 

 in said section than is contained therein, or respecting the sale of 

 which all the provisions of the foregoing section have not been fully 

 complied with, shall forfeit fifty dollars for the first offence and one 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent oti'ence. 



Sect. 6. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, import- 

 ing or purchasing fertilizers for their own use and not to sell in this 

 commonwealth. 



Sect. 7. The director of the experiment station shall [tay the 

 analysis fees, as soon as received by him, into the treasury of the 

 station, and shall cause one analysis or more of each fertilizer or 

 fertilizer material to be made annually, and shall ^Hf6?^s/i the results 

 from time to time, with such additional information as the circum- 

 stances render advisable, provided such information relates only to 

 the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizer material inspected. 

 Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a 

 sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, from any 

 lot or package of fertilizer or fertilizer material which may be in the 

 possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer ; but said 

 sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties \n 

 interest, or their representative, and taken from a parcel or a num- 

 ber of packages which shall be not less than ten per cent of the- 



[see page 29.1^ 



