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ART. LXI] MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. 455
1918, ch. 315, sec. 12.
12. The inspection and brand fees provided for in this article shall
be paid to the Maryland State College of Agriculture, and disbursed by
It, to cover the cost of the analysis, inspections, sampling, printing,
and for the dissemination of information regarding the contents and
the analysis of fertilizers subject to this article, the use and compound-
ing of commercial fertilizers, and the administration and the enforce-
ment of the provisions of this article.
1918, ch. 315, sec. 13.
13. The Board of Trustees of the Maryland State College of Agri-
culture shall have authority to establish rules and regulations in regard
to the inspection, analysis, sale of fertilizer and fertilizer materials,
and the publication of all information authorized herein, to the end that
the provisions of this article may be effectively administered and
enforced.
1918, ch. 315, sec. 14.
14. The brand fee as provided in this article shall not apply to any
tertilizer mixed according to a formula furnished by a consumer; pro-
vided, in lieu of the registration, all packages of fertilizers shall be
plainly marked, or tagged, on the outside of the package with the words
"Mixed, to Order," together with a statement thereon of the guaranteed
analysis, and in all the other particulars said mixed fertilizer shall con-
form to the provisions of this article.
1918, ch. 315, sec. 15.
15. Every person, firm, corporation, or association, guilty of a vio-
lation of any of the provisions contained in Sections No. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
and 9 of this article, and every officer, manager, director, or managing
agent of any such person, firm, corporation, or association, directly
participating in such violation, or consenting thereto, shall be punish-
able by a fine of $100.00 for the first offense, and, upon a second convic-
tion, shall be punished by a fine of $500.00 or imprisonment for not
more than three months, or both, at the discretion of the Court. And
it shall be the duty of the State's Attorneys of the several counties of
this State to prosecute all violations of any of the provisions contained
in said Sections Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 brought to their attention, said
prosecutions to be in the name of the State of Maryland, and the pen-
alty recovered, when paid, to be turned into the fertilizer fund of the
Maryland State College of Agriculture.
1918, ch. 315, sec. 16.
16. If any person, firm, or corporation, subject to the provisions of
this article shall fail to file the statement required in Section No. 3
herein regarding the tons of fertilizer sold, and to pay the inspection
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