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less than ten per cent, of the whole lot inspected, and shall be thor- 

 oughly 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 repre- 

 sentatives 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 violating this 

 act shall be prosecuted by the director of said station ; hat it shall he 

 the duty of said director, ^ipon ascertaining any violation of this act, to 

 forthwith riotify the maniifact^irer or imi^orter in writing, and give 

 him not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply ivith the 

 requirements of this act, hut there shall he no prosecution in relation to 

 the quality of the fertilizer or fertilizing material if the same shall he 

 found suhstantially equivalent to the statement of analysis made hy the 

 manufacturer or importer. 



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

 Puhlic statutes are herehy repealed. 



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

 ■the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. \_Approved May 3, 1888.~\ 



