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by the comptroller as provided by this article, shall, on or before
the thirty-first day of July in each and every year, send his or
their name or names with postoffice address and the names of the
kinds, brands and trade marks, and of the manufacturer, importer
or manipulator of each fertilizer sold or proposed to be sold, to
the Maryland Agricultural College, and the same shall be regis-
tered in suitable books kept for that purpose; and any failure
to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be punishable
by a tine of twenty-five dollars ($25) tor the first offense and of
fifty dollars ($50) for every subsequent offense.

1890, ch. 387. 1894, ch. 397.

5. It shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College
to analyze without cost or charge all samples o± fertilizers sent
to it for the purpose of being analyzed by any person or persons
purchasing or procuring the same in this State for his or their
use or uses; provided, such persons are not interested in the
analysis desired other than as consumers, of which affidavit shall
shall be made and shall accompany each sample or brand; and
further, such samples are taken and sent as described by this
article, and free of cost of transportation to said college; and it
shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College to procure
samples as far as practicable in every year of all the fertilizers sold
and used in this State, for the purposes of analyzing the same; and
any duly authorized agent or representative of the said college
shall have the right to take samples as provided by this article from
any lot or parcel of fertilizer in transitu or in possession or keeping
of any manufacturer, manipulator, dealer or agent, and sold or
offered for sale in this State; and it shall be the duty of the
Maryland Agricultural College to send in the result of every
sample of fertilizer to the person from whom such sample was
taken or received, and also to publish from time to time the
results of the analysis made by the said college of the samples
sent to or procured by it for such purpose; and it shall be the
duty of the Maryland Agricultural College, when reporting or
publishing the result of any analysis made, to state the commer-
cial value in dollars and cents of the fertilizer so analyzed, per
ton of two thousand pounds, such value to be based upon the
analysis made by the college, and upon a standard of valuation to

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