84 MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. [ART. 113.

ARTICLE CXIII.
Manures and fertilizers.

1 Packages of manures to be labeled 2 Penalty for violation 3. When purchaser may recover amount paid proceeding by attachment.

4. Construction of terms 5. Meaning of certain words 6. Penalty for adulterating

1870, c. 426 enacts and adds an additional article to the Code of Public General
Laws, to number 113 as follows:

1870, c. 428. Packages of manures to be labeled.

SEC. 1. All commercial manures and artificially manufactured or manipulated fertilizers, brought into or manufactured in the state of Maryland for sale and sold or kept for sale therein, shall have permanently affixed to every sack, bag, barrel, box or other package thereof, a stamped or printed label, which shall specify legibly the name or names of the manufacturer or manufacturers, his, her or their place of business, the net weight of each sack, bag, barrel, box or other pack- age, the component parts of such manure or fertilizerj the per centage by weight, which it contains, of the fol- lowing constituents, viz : of phosphoric acid soluble in pure cold water, of phosphoric acid insoluble in pure cold water, of available ammonia, potash and soda.

Penalty for violation.

2. If any person shall sell or keep for sale any commercial manures, or artificially manufactured, or manipulated fertilizers not labeled in accordance with the requirements of the next preceding section or shall affix any label to any sack, bag, barrel, box or other package, not expressing truly the component parts of said manures or fertilizers, or expressing a larger per centage of the constituents or either of them men- tioned in the next preceding section, than is contained therein, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the first offence and seventy-five dollars for the second, and each subsequent offence, to be recovered on indict- ment and conviction in the circuit court of Baltimore city or the circuit court for the county, within whose