20 



analysis thereof if the analysis of such fertilizer made by the director, or 

 by his deputy or deputies, shows the amounts of the constituents thereof 

 to be substantially equivalent to the percentages stated in the label of 

 the fertilizer. 



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

 three hundred 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 commonwealth any commercial fertilizer shall, on or before 

 the first day of January and July in each year, beginning with January, 

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

 agricultural experiment station a sworn statement in such form as the 

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

 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 director or his authorized deputy to examine the 

 books of the person filing the statement, 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 state- 

 ment, permit or fee shall be required in respect of agricultural lime. The 

 said director or his authorized deputy shall have power to cancel the cer- 

 tificate 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 common- 

 wealth a fertilizer or brand of fertilizer without having filed the statement 

 and permit and paid the fee required by this section 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 state- 

 ment 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 sec- 

 tion, and to turn over the same to be accounted for and disbursed in 

 accordance with the provisions of section ten of said chapter three hun- 

 dred and eighty-eight. [Approved May 21, 1918. 



REQUARANTINING OF ANIMALS. 



General Acts, Chapter 39. 



An Act eelative to the requarantining of aniivials which have 

 been released from quarantine. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section twenty-five of chapter ninety of the Revised Laws 

 is hereby amended by striking out the words "board of cattle commis- 

 sioners or of any of its members or agents", in the second and third lines, 

 and substituting the words : — commissioner of animal industry or of his 



