INSPECTIONS. 1787

if the State Board of Agriculture shall find upon examination, 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 jurisdiction to have such
person, firm or corporation convicted therefor, or said Board, in its dis-
cretion, may report the results of such examination to the proper prosecuting
attorney, together with the sworn statement of .the inspector or analyst,
duly acknowledged, and such other evidence of said violation as said
Board shall deem necessary. Provided, 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 corporations 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 pro-
ceedings at once against the person or persons, firms or corporations charged
with such violation.

An. Code, sec. 108. 1918, ch. 200, sec. 108.

125. 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 freedom is given
on the tags or labels attached to such seed.

An. Code, sec. 109. 1918, ch. 200, sec. 109.

126. Any citizen of Maryland shall haye the privilege of submitting
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 regu-
lations 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.1

An. Code, sec. 111. 1918, ch. 113, sec. 1.

127. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, co-partnership or
individual, engaged in the canning or preserving of any fruit or vegetables,
to sell or otherwise dispose of the seed of any fruit or vegetables obtained
in the canning or preserving of any fruit or vegetables to any dealer in
garden seed or other person under circumstances where the same may be
resold for the purpose of planting or propagation, unless said corporation,
co-partnership or individual shall1 sell said seed under an absolute guarantee
as to purity and germinating properties.

1 Act of 1918, ch. 200, sec. 110, repeals all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with said
act.