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ART. XLVIII] SEED. 361
dollars, and if the State Board of Agriculture shall find upon examina-
tion, analysis or test that any person, firm or corporation has violated
any of the provisions of this sub-title, said Board or its duly authorized
agent or agents may institute proceedings in a court of competent juris-
diction to have such person, firm or corporation convicted therefor, or
said Board, in its discretion, may report the results of such examina-
tion to the proper prosecuting attorney, .together with the sworn state-
ment of the inspector or analyst, duly acknowledged, and such other
evidence of said violation as said Board shall deem necessary. Pro-
vided, however, that no prosecution of this sub-title shall be instituted
except in the manner following: when said Board finds that the sub-
title has been violated, it shall give notice to the persons, firms or cor-
porations concerned, designating a time and place for a hearing. This
hearing shall be private and the person, firm or corporation involved
shall have the right to introduce evidence either in person, or by agent
or attorney. If after said hearing, or without said hearing in case
said person or agent fails or refuses to appear, the Board decides that
the evidence warrants prosecution, said Board shall proceed as herein
provided. It shall be the duty of the proper prosecuting attorney to
institute proceedings at once against the person or persons, firms or cor-
porations charged with such violation.
1918, ch. 200, sec. 108.
108. When any lot of agricultural seed, or mixture of agricultural
seeds, is sold, offered or exposed for sale as free of weed seeds, this
sub-title shall be deemed violated unless proper indication of such free-
dom is given on the tags or labels attached to such seed.
1918, ch. 200, sec. 109.
109. Any citizen of Maryland shall have the privilege of submit-
ting to the State seed laboratory samples of agricultural seeds for test
and analysis, subject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted
by the State Board of Agriculture; provided that said Board may by
such regulations fix the maximum number of samples that may be
tested or analyzed free of charge for any one citizen in any one period
of time and fix charges for tests or analyses of samples submitted in
excess of the number tested free of charge.*
110. Repealed. (Act 1918, ch. 200.)
1918, ch. 113, sec. 1.
111. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, co-partnership or
individual, engaged in the canning or preserving of any fruit or vege-
tables, to sell or otherwise dispose of the seed of any fruit or vegetables
*The act of 1918, chapter 200, section 110, repeals all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with said act of 1918. Section 2 of said act provides that the same
shall take effect October 1, 1918.
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