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placed on each stating 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 person taking the sample, and by the 

 party or parties in interest or their representatives at the drawing 

 and sealing of said samples; one of said duplicate samples shall be 

 retained by the secretary and the other by the party whose stock was 

 sampled, and the sample or samples retained by the secretary shall 

 be for comparison with the certified statement named in section 3 of 

 this act. The result of the analysis of the sample or samples so 

 procured, together with such additional information as circumstances 

 advise, shall be published in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



Sect. 6. Any manufacturer, importer, or person who shall sell, 

 offer, or expose for sale or for distribution in this state any con- 

 centrated commercial feeding-stuff, without complying with the 

 requirements of this act, or any feeding-stuff which contains sub- 

 stantially a smaller percentage of the constituents than are certified 

 to be contained, shall, on conviction in a court of competent juris- 

 diction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first 

 offense, and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent 

 offense. 



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Sect. 7. Any person who shall adulterate any kind of meal or 

 ground grain with milling or manufacturing offals, or anj^ other sub- 

 stance whatever, for tlie purpose of sale, unless the true composition, 

 mixture, or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon 

 the package containing the same or in wiiich it is offered for sale; or 

 any person who knowingly sells, or offers for sale, any meal or 

 ground grain which has been so adulterated unless the true composi- 

 tion, mixture, or adulteration is plainly marked or indicated upon 

 the package containing the same, or in which it is offered for sale, 

 shall be fined not less than twenty-five or more than one hundred 

 dollars for each offense. 



Sect. S. Whenever said secretary becomes cognizant of the viola- 

 tion of any of the provisions of this act he shall prosecute the party 

 or parties thus reported; but it shall be the duty of said secretary, 

 upon thus ascertaining any violation of this act, to forthwith notify 

 the manufacturer, importer, or dealer in writing, and give him not 

 less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the require- 

 ments of this article; but there shall be no prosecution in relation to 

 the quality of any concentrated commercial feeding-stuff if the same 

 shall be found substantially equivalent to the certified statement 

 named in section 3 of this article. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect December first, nineteen hun- 

 dred and one. 



