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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

affidavit that the analysis filed has been properly

made by a competent chemist, and shall deposit

with said clerk a sealed glass or tin vessel containing

not less than one pound of the fertilizer or bone dust,

accompanied with an affidavit that it is a fair average

Duty of clerk.

sample; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to

mark said deposits with the name of the manufac-

turer, and keep a record of the name of the person

(agent) depositing the same, and of the time when

deposited, and said clerk shall receive a fee of fifty

cents for each deposit, to be paid by the person

depositing the same.

SEC. 3, The manufacturer, importer or agent of

any commercial fertilizer or bone dust exceeding

ten dollars per ton in price, shall pay, annually, on

License fee.

or before the first day of May, a license fee of twenty-

five dollars, and shall give bond in the sum of one

thousand dollars with at least, two sureties, residents

of Harford county, answerable for the damages and

Answerable

fines hereinafter mentioned, which bond shall be

for damages.

satisfactory to, and shall be filed with said clerk,

for the privilege of selling or offering for sale any
commercial fertilizer or bone dust in Harford county,

said fee to be paid to the clerk aforesaid; provided

that whenever the manufacturer, or importer, shall

have paid the license fee herein required, for any

persons acting as (agents for) such manufacturer or

importer, such agents shall not be required to pay

the fee named in this section.

SEC. 4. All analysis of commercial fertilizers or

bone dust shall be made by an experienced chemist,

who shall be appointed by the Governor at the

same time State officers are appointed, the said

chemist to serve for two years or until his successor

is duly appointed and qualified; the annual salary

Analysis—
how made.

to be paid to said chemist shall be five dollars, which

shall bo paid out of the treasury of the State. The

said chemist shall receive, in addition to the said

annual salary, a fee of twenty-five dollars for each

and every analysis made by him under the provi-

sions of this act, to be paid by the said clerk out of

the funds in his hands arising from licenses or fines.

SEC. 5. Said clerk shall publish annually, for two

Publish cer-

weeks in one or more newspapers of the county,

tificates.

beginning the first week in May, a correct report

of all certificates filed, together with a statement of