ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

757

CHAPTER 426.

AN ACT to repeal an Act entitled an "Act to
amend Article four of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title Guano, by adding thereto the fol-
lowing Sections relating to the Inspection of all
Fertilizers, other than Guano, passed at Janu-
ary session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
Chapter two hundred and ninety-five, and to
enact and add an additional Article to the Code
of Public General Laws, to number one hundred
and thirteen, and titled Manures and Fertilizers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted 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 follow-
ing Sections relating to the inspection of all fertil-
izers other than Guano, passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter two
hundred and ninety-five, be and the same is here-
by repealed, and an additional Article is hereby
enacted and added to the Code of Public General
Laws to number one hundred and thirteen, and
titled "Manures and Fertilizers," to read as fol-
lows: 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,

Repealed and
additional
added.

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
per centage by weight, which it contains, of the
following constituents, viz., of phosphoric acid solu-
ble in pure cold water, of phosphoric acid insoluble
in pure cold water, of available ammonia, potash
and soda. That if any person shall sell or keep
for sale any commercial manures, or artificially
manufactured, or manipulated fertilizers not la-
beled in accordance with the requirements of the
next preceding Section or shall affix any label to

Label —
stamped or
printed.