1870.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1173

Local Laws, title "Guano," by adding thereto the following
sections relating to the inspection of all fertilizers other than
guano, passed at January session, 1868, chapter 295, be, and
the same is hereby repealed, and an additional Article is
hereby enacted and added to the Code of Public General
Laws, to number 113, and titled "Manures and Fertilizers,"
to read as follows:

1. That all commercial manures and artificially manufac-
tured or manipulated fertilizers, brought into or manufactured
in the State of Maryland for sale, and sold or kept for sale
therein, shall have permanently affixed to every sack, bag,
barrel, box or other package thereof, a stamped or printed
label, which shall specify, legibly, the name or names of the
manufacturer or manufacturers, his, her or their place of
business, the net weight of each sack, bag, barrel, box or other
package, the component parts of such manure or fertilizer,
the percentage, by weight, which it contains of the following
constituents, viz: of phosphoric acid, soluble in pare cold
water, of phosphoric acid insoluble in pure cold water, of
available ammonia, potash and soda.

2. That if any person shall sell or keep for sale any com-
mercial manures, or artificially manufactured or manipulated
fertilizers, not labeled in accordance with the requirements
ot the next preceding section, or shall affix any label to any
sack, bag, barrel, box or other package, not expressing truly
the component parts of said manures or fertilizers, or express-
ing a larger percentage of the constituents, or either of them,
mentioned in the next preceding section, than is contained
therein, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the
first offence, and sevt nty-five dollars for the second and each
subsequent offence, to be recovered on indictment and con-
viction in the Circuit Court for Baltimore city, or the Circuit
Court for the county within whose jurisdiction said offence
may be committed, one-half thereof to be paid to the informer,
the other half to the State.

3. That any purchaser of commercial manures or ar-
tificially manufactured or manipulated fertilizers, bearing
labels as provided for in section 1 of this Article, who shall
be injured or detrauded by the contents of the sacks, bags,
barrels, boxes or other package not conforming in quality
and quantity to the labels thereon, may recover from the
seller or sellers thereof, in an action of debt, an amount
equal to the purchase money of such manure or fertilizer ;
and in case the purchase is made of an agent of any person or
persons residing out of the limits or the State of Maryland,
manufacturing, compounding, preparing and furnishing for
sale any such commercial manures or fertilizers, the purcha-

ser thereof may at his option proceed, by attachment, as now