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ART. 48] FEED STUFFS. 1257
to be adulterated, the vendor shall be in all respects subject to the
penalties hereinafter set forth for the adulteration of concentrated
commercial feeding stuff.
1904, art. 48, sec. 84. 1900, ch. 287, sec. 86.
82. The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as here used,
shall include linseed meals, cotton-seed meals, cotton-seed hulls, pea
meals, cocoanut meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar
feeds, dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cereline feeds,
rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, ground beef, fish or animal
meals, mixed feeds, all patented or trade marked foods, and all other
materials of similar nature not included within the preceding section of
this sub-title.
Ibid. sec. 85. 1900, ch. 287, sec. 87.
83. Before any manufacturer, company or person shall sell, offer
or expose for sale in this State any concentrated commercial feeding
stuff, as defined in the preceding section of this sub-title, he or they
shall for each and every feeding stuff bearing a distinguishing name or
"trade mark file with the state chemist of the Maryland Agricultural
College a certified copy of the statement named in section 80 of this
sub-title; said certified copy to be accompanied, when the state chemist
shall so request, by a sealed package, containing at least one pound of
the feeding stuff to be sold or offered for sale, and the company or
person furnishing said samples shall thereupon make affidavit that
said sample corresponds within reasonable limits with the feeding
stuffs which it represents in the percentage of protein and fat which it
contains.
Ibid. sec. 88. 1900, ch. 287, sec. 88.
84. Before any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined
in section 82, is sold, offered or exposed for sale in this State, the
manufacturer, importer, agent or seller thereof shall pay to the treas-
urer of the Maryland Agricultural College an inspection fee of twenty
dollars for each brand or kind of concentrated commercial feeding stuff
contemplated to be sold, and shall receive therefor from said treasurer
a, license to sell such brand of concentrated commercial feeding stuff
until the first day of July next following; provided, that when any
manufacturer, importer or dealer shall have paid the inspection fee
as herein provided it shall not be necessary for any other person, as
his agent or representative, to pay said fee.
Ibid. sec. 87. 1900, ch. 287, sec. 89.
85. Any manufacturer, importer or person who shall soil, offer or
expose for sale or for distribution in this State any concentrated com-
mercial feeding stuff, as defined in section 82. without complying with
the requirements of the preceding sections of this sub-title, or any feed-
ing stuff which contains substantially a smaller percentage of con-
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