58 INSECTICIDE STUDIES. 



shall report results of analysis forthwith to the secretary of the State hoard of horti- 

 culture and to the party or parties submitting such samples, and such report shall l>e 

 final as regards the quality. 



SK< . r>. Any person or persons, linn, association, company, or corporation violating 

 any of the provisions of this act. and any person who shall sell any package of Paris 

 Green. or any part thereof, which lias not heen laheled as herein provided, shall he 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall he lined not less than S5() nor more than SL'uO, 

 together with cost of the suit, in an action caused to he brought hy the State hoard of 

 horticulture, through its secretary, in the name of the people of the State of California. 



Si-:< . ;. The attorney-general of the State of California is charged with the prosecu- 

 tion of all such suits. 



SKC. 7. This act will take effect immediately. Jifrmin- n Inn- h,, cnnxfitntiniml Innifti- 

 1901. 



LOUISIANA. 



Act N<>. i:H of tin- general assembly of the State of Louisiana. 



Hi it iinirind hi/ tJn' </fner<iI (ixxenthl)/ of tin- Stuff of J,otii*iuii<t, That the hureau of 

 agriculture shall be charged with the duties of regulating the sale and purity of Paris 

 Green as an insecticide in this State. 



s i-:c. 2. That it shall be the duty of any manufacturer or dealer in original packages 

 of Paris Green before the same is offered for sale in this State, to submit to the com- 

 missioner of agriculture a written or printed statement setting forth: First. The 

 brand of Paris (Jreeu to be sold, the number of pounds contained in each package in 

 which it is to he put upon the market for sale, and the name or names of the manu- 

 facturers and the place of manufacture. Second. The statement setting forth the 

 amount of arsenic which they are willing to guarantee the said Paris Green to con- 

 tain, and the statement so furnished shall be considered as constituting a guarantee 

 to the purchaser that every package of said Paris Green contained not less than the 

 amount of arsenic set forth in the statement. 



SKC. 3. That every purchaser proposing to deal in Paris Green shall, after riling 

 the statement above provided for with the commissioner of agriculture, receive 

 from the said commissioner of agriculture a certificate stating that he luis complied 

 with the foregoing section, which certificate * hall be furnished by the commissioner 

 without any charge therefor; that the said certificate when furnished shall authorize 

 the party receiving the same to deal in this State in Paris Green; that no person 

 who has failed to file the statement aforesaid and to receive the certificate of author- 

 ity aforesaid shall he authori/ed to deal in this State in Paris Green, and any person 

 so dealing in this State without having filed the aforesaid statement and received 

 the certificate aforesaid shall he liable for each violation to a line not exceeding 

 SL'")". which fine shall be recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction at 

 the suit of the commissioner of agriculture or of any citi/en. and shall he disposed 

 of a- hereinafter provided; provided, further, that nothing in this section shall be 

 construed as preventing the sale by retail dealers throughout the State of Paris 

 (.reeii which has already been guaranteed and labeled a- provided for in this act. 



4. That it shall he the duty of the board of agriculture, or its commissioner. 

 at the opening of each season, ! issue and distribute circulars setting forth the 

 brand* of Paris < ireen. their percentages of arsenic as claimed by the dealers, and 

 to more particularly describe them they shall be separated into two classes, vi/.: 

 First, those brands containing ~><> percent or mre of ai>enic shall be classed as 

 "strictly pure." and, second, all falling below this peiventaire shall be classed as 

 "impure." 



That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to cause to be 

 prepared labels of suitable material, fitted to be attached t > packages of Paris (iieen 

 and ti have printed t liereon " iruaranteed." with a blank space into which there may 



