HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

amount contemplated to be sold, as follows :
for one hundred tons or less, five dollars; for
every additional one hundred tons, or part
thereof, two dollars additional; provided, that
no license shall be charged upon lots ordered

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by farmers to be made after their own formula
for their own use; said license to be prepared
and furnished by the Comptroller of the
Treasury, and to be issued from the first day
of May to the first day of November, in each
year, and to be good until the succeeding first
day of May; provided, that when any manu-
facturer in this State shall have taken out a
license, as herein provided, it shall not be
necessary for any person to take out a license
to sell the fertilizer manufactured by the man-
ufacturer who has taken out such license ;
and provided, further, that if any person or
company shall sell or dispose of in any one
year a larger quantity than the number of
tons contemplated in the application for the
license he shall return to the Comptroller
under oath a statement of such excess sold,
and also return the amount of money due the
State for such excess sold to be rated at two
dolla,rs for every additional one hundred tons
or part of one hundred tons.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the Maryland Agricultural College
to analyze all samples of fertilizer sent to it
for this purpose from any farmer, planter or
grower or manufacturer of this State, and pur-
chased by him in this State without charge,
and send to the person sending said samples

Proviso.

the result of said analysis, and it shall be the
right and privilege of every farmer, planter
or grower residing in this State to send sam-
ples of fertilizer purchased by him, said speci-
mens not to be less than twenty-five pounds
in quantity, and to be taken from the top, mid-
dle and end of the bag or package and mixed
together in the presence of two witnesses.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the funds re-
ceived by the Comptroller from the licenses

Agricultural
College to an-
alyze