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more than eight dollars ($8.00) per ton of two thousand pounds,
but shall not include ground gypsum, lime or dung of domestic
animals when sold as such and not mixed with other fertilizers.
The term "State chemist" shall mean the professor in charge
of the chemical department of the Maryland Agricultural Col-
lege, who shall be ex officio State chemist. The term "brand"
shall mean the full name, brand and trade-mark under which
the fertilizer is sold, together with the statement of the per-
centage of the vauable ingredients contained therein.

SEC. 21 Before any fertilizer is sold, offered or exposed for
sale within the State, the following conditions must be complied
with: (a) The importer, manufacturer, manipulator, dealer or
agent shall register with the State chemist the brands of fer-
tilizers contemplated to be sold, and pay an inspection fee of
ten dollars ($10.00) per brandj and at the close of the calendar
year shall file a statement with the State chemist, made under
oath in due form of law, as to the total number of tons of
fertilizer sold in this State, and shall pay thereon ten cents
per ton, not including in said statement and goods sold in
bulk to manufacturers, manipulators or mixers i Deducting the
total number of the inspection fees paid in the registration of
the brands of fertilizers, as already provided for in this section,
and no other license shall be required to sell fertilizer in this
State; provided, when any manufacturer, dealer or importer
has paid the required inspection fees, no other person selling
the same goods under his name and brand shall be required to
pay such fee. (b) Every bag, barrel or package of fertilizer,
and every parcel or lot, if sold in bulk, must bear in legible
print, or be accompanied by a clear and true statement showing
the net pounds in the package or lot, the name, brand or trade-
mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address
of the manufacturer, importer or manipulator, the place of man-
ufacture or manipulation, and a chemical analysis stating the
percentage of the minimum, and only the minimum, contained
therein of nitrogen in an available form, or its equivalent in
ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water, and of available
phosphoric acid in lieu of the available phosphoric acid the
soluble phosphoric acid and the reverted phosphoric acid may
be given, it shall be lawful to state the maximum percentage of
chlorine and the minimum of insoluble phosphoric acid, in
case of unacidulated bone, tankage, fish or other animal or
vegetable matter used as fertilizer, it shall be lawful to guar-
antee the phosphoric acid as total phosphoric acid, but it shall
be unlawful to include the same constituents more than once in
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