758

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Penalty for
violation

any sack, bag, barrel, box or other package, not
expressing truly the component parts of said ma-
nures or fertilizers, or expressing a larger per
centage of the constituents or either of them men-
tioned in the next preceding section, than is con-
tained therein, shall be punished by a fine of fifty
dollars for the first offence and seventy-five dollars
for the second, and each subsequent offence, to be
recovered on indictment and conviction in the Cir-
cuit Court of Baltimore City or the Circuit Court
for the County, within whose jurisdiction said
offence may he committed, one-half thereof to be
paid to the informer, the other half to the State.

May recover.

That any purchaser of commercial manures or
artificially manufactured or manipulated fertil-
izers, bearing labels as provided for in Section
one of this Article, who shall be injured or de-
frauded by the cotitents 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 monure or fertilizer; and in case the purchase
is made of an agent of any person or persons re-
siding out of the limits of the State of Maryland,
manufacturing, compounding, preparing and fur-
nishing for sale any such commercial manures or
fertilizers, the purchaser thereof may at his option
proceed by attachment, as now provided for by
law in cases of non-residents and absconding debt-
ors, against any property, rights or credits of any
person or persons selling, manufacturing, com-
pounding, preparing or furnishing said manures or
fertilizers, when such property, rights and credits
can be found within the limits of the State of
Maryland.

How constru-
ed.

4. That the words "commercial manures, arti-
ficially manufactured or manipulated fertilizers,"
shall be taken and construed to include all manures
and fertilizers which shall be sold for a greater price
than one cent per pound, and that any arrange-
ment or agreement, verbal or written, made by
and between any seller and purchaser of said ma-
nures or fertilizers, for the purpose of exonerating
-the seller or manufacturer from liability for a vio-
lation of any of the provisions of this Article, shall
not exempt such seller, manufacturer, compounder,