ART. 61.] ANALYSIS—SALES. 971

pounds in quantity, and to be taken from the top, middle and end of
the bag or package and mixed together in the presence of two
witnesses.

1886, ch. 477, sec. 4.

4. The funds received by the comptroller from the licenses
issued under this article, shall be paid into the treasury and be
set apart as a specific fund to pay the cost and expenses of con-
ducting the analysis provided for in section 3; and the treasurer
shall annually pay over to the Maryland agricultural college the
money received from said licenses; provided, that no larger sum
than two thousand dollars shall be paid over in any one year.

Ibid. sec. 5.

5. Whoever shall sell or offer for sale a commercial fertilizer
without first taking out the license required by this article, or

without the label required by this article, or with a label stating
that said fertilizer contains a larger percentage of any one or
more of the constituents mentioned in section 1 than it actually
contains, or shall fail to return the statement of excess sold, as
provided in section 2, shall, on conviction thereof in any court of
competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than two hundred dol-
lars.

1870, ch 426.

6. Any purchaser of commercial manures or artificially manu-
factured or manipulated fertilizers, bearing labels as provided for
in section 1, who shall be injured or defrauded by the contents of
the sacks, bags, barrels, boxes or other package not conforming
in quality and quantity to the labels thereon, may recover from
the seller thereof, in an action of debt, an amount equal to the
purchase money of such manure or fertilizer; and in case the
purchase is made of an agent of any person residing out of the
limits of the State of Maryland, manufacturing, compounding,
preparing and furnishing for sale any such commercial manures
or fertilizers, the purchaser thereof may at his option proceed by
attachment, as now provided for by law in cases of non-resi-
dent and absconding debtors, against any property, rights or
credits within this State of any person selling, manufacturing,
compounding, preparing or furnishing said manures or fertilizers.