Mr. Stephenson, from the Committee on Agriculture, to
whom was referred House bill entitled an Act to repeal chap-
ter 295, Act of Assembly 1868, entitled an Act to amend Ar-
ticle 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Guano," by
adding thereto the following sections relating to the inspec-
tion of fertilizers other than guano, and to substitute the
following in lieu thereof, reported it with the following
amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the word ''entitled," at the beginning
of the first line of the title, and insert the following :

An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to amend Article 4,
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Guano," by add-
ing thereto the following sections relating to the inspection of
all fertilizers other than guano, passed at January session
1868, chapter 295, and to enact and add an additional Ar-
ticle to the Code of Public General Laws, to number 113, and
titled "Manures and Fertilizers. "

By the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act
entitled an Act to amend Article four, of the Code of Public
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the same is hereby repealed, and an additional Article is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 manufactured
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 fertil-
izer, the percentage, by weight, which it contains of the fol-
lowing constituents, viz : of phosphoric acid, soluble in pure
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
of 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,

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