ART. 61] SAMPLES FOR ANALYSIS. 1493

the agricultural college nor its chemists nor its agent or agents
or the sender of any sample furnish any information or com-
municate with any manufacturer of fertilizers about any such
samples submitted for analysis, until after a report df said
analysis shall have been duly furnished to the applicant
for such analysis under this section; provided, that all samples
sent to the Maryland Agricultural College by any purchaser
or purchasers shall be drawn from at least five per cent,
of the total number of bags purchased, these samples to be
thoroughly mixed in a clean, dry place and a suitable sample
shall be taken from said mixture and placed in a suitable
vessel or vessels carefully closed, with on identifying label,
and the same then taken or sent by safe carriage to the said
college for analysis; every sample for analysis by the State
chemist as provided for by this section shall be fully described
in forms to be furnished by said chemist free of charge, said
description giving a full and complete statement of the time
and place of sampling of all marks on the bags or packages
thereof and all the facts relating to the same; said description
and statements shall be made under affidavit before a justice
of the peace or notary public and the same shall be retained
as confidential by the said justice or notary until required by
this section to be sent to the State chemist; provided, further,
that the purchaser or purchasers sending such sample or
samples shall withhold said description or descriptions of said
sample or samples until he has received the report of the said
State chemist of the analysis of the same. Any person or
persons receiving an analysis from the State chemist under this
section shall immediately thereafter forward to him the state-
ment required by this section to be made at the time of taking
the sample or samples; and any person or persons violating
the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of
one hundred dollars; and any manufacturer, agent or represen-
tative who shall be convicted of making false and fraudulent
representations as to the quality and constituent elements of
any fertilizers by the printed analysis upon any such bag or
package shall be fined one hundred dollars for the first offense
and two hundred dollars for every subsequent offense there-
after; and the report of the analysis of any such sample of
fertilizer sent to the Agricultural College for examination under
this section shall be prima facie evidence as to the quality of
the lot of fertilizer from which said sample was taken.