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of this act, said Director shall issue a certificate of compliance 

 with this act. Whenever the manufacturer or importer of a 

 fertilizer shall have filed the statement made in section two of 

 this act and paid the analysis fee, no agent or seller of said 

 manufacturer, importer or shipper shall be required to file such 

 statement or pay such fee. The analysis fees received by said 

 Director shall be paid immediately by him into the treasury of 

 said Experiment Station. 



Sect. 5. Any manufacturer, importer or person who shall 

 sell, offer or expose for sale in this State any commercial fertil- 

 izer without complying with the requirements of sections one, 

 two and four of this act, or any fertilizer which contains sub- 

 stantially a smaller percentage of constituents than are certified 

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

 jurisdiction, be fined one hundred dollars for the first offense, 

 and two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sect. 6. The Director of the Maine Experiment Station shall 

 annually analyze, or cause to be analyzed, at least one sample, 

 to be taken in the manner hereinafter prescribed, of every fertili- 

 zer sold or offered for sale under the provisions of this act. 

 Said Director is hereby authorized and directed in person or by 

 deputy to take a sample not exceeding two pounds in weight, 

 for said analysis, from any lot or package of fertilizer or any 

 material used for manurial purposes which may be in the posses- 

 sion of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer in this 

 State; but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said 

 party or parties in interest, or their representative, and taken 

 from a parcel or a number of packages which shall not be less 

 than ten per cent, of the whole lot sampled, and shall be 

 thoroughly 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 representatives at the draw- 

 ing and. sealing of said samples; one of said duplicate samples 

 shall be retained by the Director and the other by the party 



