The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-05-21
CHAPTER At.

AN ACT to regulate the inspection and sale
ofCommercal Fertilizers in the State of
Maryland
SECTION 1. And be 1t enacted 6y tile
General assembly of Maryland, that every
package of commercial fertilizers sold, offered
or exposed for sale for manurlal purposes
within this State shall have plainly stamped
thereon tie name of the manufacturer, the
place of manufacture the net weight of its
contents and analysis stating the per centum
therein contained of nitrogen, or its equva-
lent in ammonia, in an available form ofpot-
ash soluble in water, of available phosphoric
acid of moisture, and the materials from
which said nitrogen or its equivalent in
ammonia, .phosphoric acid and potash are
derived, with an allowance Of not more than
two per centum variation in the amount of
ammonia, three per cenlum of the amount of
phosphoric acid, and one per centum of the
amount of potash.
SEC. 2. And be ii enacted, That every
manufacturer, importer or dealer in com
mercial fertilizer, shall, before selling or offer
ing to sell any commercial fertilizer within
this State, take out license for the sale of
fertilizer, which license shall be rated upon
the amount contemplated to be sold as fol-
lows: for one hundred tons or less, five dol
lars for every additional one hundred tons
or part thereof, two dollars additional; pro-
vded, that no license shall be charged upon
lots ordered by farmers TO be made after their
own formula for their own use; said license
to be prepared and furnished by the Comp.
troler of the Treasury, and to be issued from
the first day of May to the first day Of No
vember in each year, and to be good until
the succeeding first day of May; provided,
that when any manufacturer in this State
shall have taken out license as herein pro-
vided, it shall not be necessary for any per-
son to take out license TO sell the fertilizer
manufactured by the manufacturer 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 statement of
such excess sold, and also return the amount
of money due the State for q license for such
excess sold to be rated at two dollars for
every additional one hundred tons or part of
one hundred tons.
Sec. 3. And be 1t enacted, That 1t 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 purchased by him in this State,
without charge, and send to the person send
ing said samples 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 samples of fertilizers purchased
byshim; said specimens not to be less than
twenty-five pounds in quantity, and to be
taken from the top, middle and end of the
bag or package and mixed together in the
presence of two witnesses.
SEC. 4. And be at enacted That the funds
uaI hut rolI ar tba
issued under this Act shall be paid into the
Treasury, and be set apartas specific fund
to pay the costand expenses Of conducting
the analysis provided for in section three of
this Act, and the Treasurer shall annually pay
over to the Maryland Agricultural College
the money received from sale of said license;
provided, that no larger sum than two
thousand dollars shall be paid over in any
| one year.
SEC. g. And be it enacted, That whoever
sells or offers for sale commercial fertilizer
without first taking out the license required
by this Act, or without the label required by
this Act, or with a label stating that said
fertilizer contains larger per centage of any
one or more of the constituents mentioned in
section two of this Act than it actually con-
tains, or shall fail to return the statement OF
excess sold, as provided in section two, shall
on conviction thereof in any Court of COM
petent jurisdiction, be find not more than
two hundred dollars.
SEC. 6. And be in enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of Its passage
Approved April z, 1886.
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-.
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session
1886.
L. B. PRETTYMAN,
Chief Clerk of the House Delegates
! W. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate