EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 763

ately thereafter forward to it the statement required by this
Act to be made at the time of taking the sample or samples.

SEC. 10. That it shall be the duty of the Maryland State
College of Agriculture to analyze upon request, without cost or
charge, all samples of fertilizer sent to said College and taken
in the manner prescribed in this Act. The said College, the
State Chemist, or his assistants or agents, shall not demand of
any purchaser so sending sample, or samples, for analysis any
advice, information, or statement, as to any analysis appearing
on the original unbroken packages, or bags, from which said
sample or samples were taken, or the name or names of any
individual, representative, agent, or corporation or firm from
which said fertilizer, or fertilizers, were purchased; and it shall
be the duty of the said College, through its duly authorized
agent, the State Chemist, to at once make a full and complete
analysis of the sample, or samples, received in accordance with
this provision and within thirty (30) days thereafter return to
such person, or persons, from whom the sample, or samples,
were received a full and complete analysis of said sample or
samples. It shall be unlawful for any individual, representa-
tive, or agent, of any corporation or firm, or any corporation or
firm itself either directly, or indirectly, to have any communica-
tion with the said College, or its chemists, agents or representa-
tives, or the sender of any sample to said College, regarding the
analysis of any fertilizer, or fertilizers, sent to the said College
by the purchaser or purchasers thereof for analysis until after
the report of said analysis. The Maryland State College of
Agriculture, the State Chemist, their agents, or representatives,
shall not furnish any information, or communicate with any
manufacturer of fertilizer, about any such sample submitted for
analysis until after a report of the analysis so made shall have
been duly furnished to the applicant for such analysis.

SEC. 11. That any purchaser of fertilizer who shall be in-
jured, or defrauded, by the failure of the contents of any bag,
barrel, or other package of fertilizer, or any fertilizer in bulk,
to conform to the statement of the quantity, quality, marks,
labels on or accompanying the same, or filed with the Maryland
State College of Agriculture, or who shall purchase fertilizer
branded, "pure bone" when the same is adulterated with oyster
shell, or other foreign matter, even if the analysis corresponds
to the guaranteed analysis on the package, may recover from
the seller, or sellers, thereof in an action of debt an amount
equal to the purchase money of said fertilizer and cost of suitr