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and said label shall also be signed by the Director or his deputy 

 and by the party or parties in interest or their representative at 

 the drawing and sealing of said samples; one of said duplicate 

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

 party whose stock was sampled; and the sample or samples 

 retained by the Director shall be for comparison with the certi- 

 fied statement named in section four 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. 8. Whenever the Director becomes cognizant of the 

 violation of any of the provisions of this act, he shall report 

 such violation to the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, and 

 said Secretary 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 requirements of this 

 act, 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 four of this act. 



Sect. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 10. This act shall take effect October first, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-seven. 



Approved March 27, 1897. 



Chapter 313. 

 An Act to regulate the sale of Agricultural Seeds. 

 Section 1. Every lot of seeds of agricultural plants, whether 

 in bulk or in package, containing one pound or more, and 

 including the seeds of cereals, (except sweet corn), grasses, forage 

 plants, vegetables, and garden plants but not including those of 

 trees, shrubs and ornamental plants, which is sold, offered or 

 exposed for sale for seed by any person or persons in Maine, 



