Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-09-20
CHAPTER AIS.

AN ACT to add additional sections to
Article thirty, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title Grimes and Pun
ishments," and to prevent fraudulent
sales of any variety of new or novel
seeds of agricultural products.
SECTION ]. Be it enacted by the Gene
raj Assembly of Maryland, That it shall
not be lawful for any person or persons,
company or firm, or any agent of any
person or persons, company or firm to
sell or offer for sale or traffic in the State
of Maryland, any variety of new or
novel seed, such as wheat, oats, rye,
corn, clover seed, grass seeds, or other
agricultural products, or any variety of
the same, claimed or represented to be
new under false representations as to
the products or quality or value of the
same, without first filing with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for the county in
which such sale or sales or traffic of such
seeds, or any of them, or other agricul-
tural products is proposed to be made, a
written statement of the kind of seed
or agricultural product offered for sale
or traffic, with a full description of the
same, and the advantages claimed for
the same over other seed or products of
the same variety, to which written state
ment shall be attached the name and
place of residence of the person or per-
sons, company or firm Offering for sale
or traffic such seeds or products.
SEC 2. And be it enacted, That any
person or persons, company, firm or
agent violating the provisions of the
foregoing section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof before a Justice of the Peace on
a warrant to be issued in the name of
the State of Maryland, shall be fined
not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars, or imprisoned in
the county Jail for not less than three
nor more than six months, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion
of the Justice or the Court, if the ac-
cused demand trial by jury before the
Circuit Court.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any
person OF persons, firm or company offer
ing for barter, sale or traffic, any oats,
wheat, rye, corn, clover seed or other
agricultural product, representing them.
or any of them, as possessing qualities
or productiveness superior to the same
varieties in general cultivation, and
selling the same on credit or in any way
bartering or trafficing in the same, shall
in each and every case state in the note
or bill of exchange taken for the same.
the kind or variety of the seed sold or
bartered, with succinct statement of
the advantages or superior qualities
claimed for such seed or products, and
the terms on which the same is bartered
or sold, and the note taken shall contain
general warranty as to the kind, quail
ity and value of the article sold.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That any
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provisions of the foregoing section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction on indictment in the Court
having jurisdiction of the offence, shall
be fined not less than five hundred
dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars, or imprisoned in the penlten-
tiary for not less than one nor more
than five years.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any
person or persons, firm, corporation.
agent or agents making sale of any of
the seed or products named in the fore
going sections of this Act by false or
fraudulent representations as TO its quail
lty or productiveness, or shall sell or
offer to sell the same by any artifce or
device, whereby the purchaser may be
deceived, shall be guilty of INSIDE
meanor, and upon conviction on indict-
ment, shall be fined not less than one
hundred dollars, nor more than five
hundred dollars for each offence, or
imprisoned in the Maryland House of
Correction for not less than six months
nor more than two years, or be both
fined and imprisoned in the discretion
of the Court.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of
its passage.
Approved April 5th, 1888.
We hereby certify, That the afore-
going is correct copy of an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed
January Session, 1888.
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER, Z