C8 MAINE ACKICri-TlK \1. l! X I'KK 1 M K\T STATION. 



1903. 



saui label shall also be sipicd by the ilircclur or his deputy; pro- 

 vided, however, that when so requested said sample shall be 

 taken in (lui)licate in the presence of the party or parties in 

 interest or their representatives, in which case one of said dupli- 

 cate samples shall be retained by the director and the other by 

 the party whose stock was sampled. The sample or samples 

 retained by the director shall be for comparison with the certified 

 statement named in section one of this act. The result of the 

 analysis of the sample or samples so procured, together with such 

 additional information as circumstance? advise, shall be pub- 

 lished in reports or bulletins from time to time. 



Section 8. Any person who shall adulterate any whole or 

 ground grain with milling or manufactured offals, or with any 

 foreign substance whatever, or any bran or middlings made from 

 the several grains with any foreign substance whatever, for the 

 purpose of sale, unless the true composition, mixture or adultera- 

 tion thereof is plainly marked or indicated upon the packages 

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

 person who sells or offers for sale any whole or ground grain, 

 bran or middlings which have been so adulterated, unless the 

 true composition, mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or 

 indicated upon the package containing the same, or in which it 

 is offered for sale, shall on conviction in a court of competent 

 jurisdiction be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the 

 first offence, and not more than two hundred dollars for each 

 subsequent offence. 



Section 9. Whenever the director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station becomes cognizant of the violation of any 

 of the provisions of this act, he shall forthwith report such viola- 

 tion to the commissioner of agriculture, and said commissioner 

 shall prosecute the party or parties thus reported. But there 

 shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of any concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuff if the same shall be found in its 

 constituent parts substantially equivalent to the certified state- 

 ment named in section one of this act. 



Section 10. Chapter three hundred thirty-four of the public 

 laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and all other acts and 

 parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 



Section 11. This act shall take effect June one, nineteen hun- 

 dred and three. 



Approved March 28, 1903. 



