FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

post office address and the names of the kinds, brands and
trademarks, 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 registered in suit-
able books kept for that purpose; and any failure to comply
with the provisions of this section, shall be punishable by a
fine of twenty-five dollars ($25) for the first offense and of
fifty dollars ($50) for every subsequent offense.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Maryland Agricultural College to analyze without cost or
chaige all samples of fertilizers sent to it for the purpose of
being analyzed bv any person or persons purchasing or procur-
ing the same in this State for his or their use or uses; provided,
such persons are not interested in the analysis desired other
than a consumer, of which affidavit shall be made and shall
accompany each sample or brand; and further, such samples
are taken and sent as described by this act, and free of cost of
transportation to said college; and it shall be the duty of Mary-
land Agricultural College to procure sampics as far as practi-
cable in every year of all the fertilizers i-old 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 the act 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 com-
mercial 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 valu-
ation to be ascertained, fixed and published by said college,
annually, after conference with the proper officials of adjacent
States.

College to
analyze
samples.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all samples of fertilizers
for analysis at the Maryland Agricultural College, shall be
taken from unbroken packages that have not been injured in
transit or by exposure, and when in the possession of pur-

Manner of
procuring
and sending
samples.