EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 759

within the State of Maryland any fertilizer shall pay to the
Maryland State College of Agriculture a fee of $10.00 per brand
for each brand registered under Section 2 of this Act and on
or before December 31st, of each year shall file with the College
a statement, made under oath in due form of law, giving the
total number of tons of fertilizer sold during that calendar
year in the State of Maryland, and shall pay thereon an in-
spection tax of ten cents per ton; provided, however, goods sold
in bulk to manufacturers, manipulators, or mixers for resale,
of fertilizers shall not be subject to the said tax of ten cents
per ton; provided further that where the tonnage tax paid in
any one calendar year is in excess of the brand tax of $10.00
above provided the said brand tax shall be rebated; and pro-
vided further that when any manufacturer, dealer or importer
has paid the required inspection fees no other person selling the
same goods under his name and brand shall be required to pay
such fee.

SEC. 4. That every bag, barrel, or package of fertilizer must
bear plainly and conspicuously on the outside of same, and
every parcel or lot sold in bulk must be accompanied by, a clear
and true statement in legible print, and in the order herein
stated, the following:

The net weight of the contents of the package or lot in

pounds;

Brand name or trade-mark;
Guaranteed analysis in percentage—
Nitrogen (N) in available form or its equivalent in

Ammonia (NH8) ;
Available Phosphoric Acid (P205) ;
Potash (K2O) soluble in distilled water;
Name and address of manufacturer.

In lieu of the available phosphoric acid above stated, the-
soluble phosphoric acid, and the reverted phosphoric acid, may
be given; also the maximum per cent, of chlorine, and the mini-
mum of insoluble phosphoric acid. There may also be stated
on the package the source, or sources, of the several fertilizing
constituents. In the case of unacidulated bone, tankage, fish or
other animal, or vegetable matter, used as fertilizer, it shall
be lawful to guarantee the phosphoric acid as total phosphoric
acid, but it shall be unlawful to include the same constituents
more than once in the guaranteed analysis of any fertilizer,
either in the same form of chemical combination or in a different
form of chemical combination; provided, however, ,that in the-