The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-20

ysis fees, the state treasurer shall issue
certificates of compliance with this act.
Sec. 4. No person shall sell, offer or en-
pose for sale In this state any pulveriEed
leather, raw, steamed, roasted, or In any
form as fertilizer or manure without an
explicit printed certificate OF the fact to
be conspituously afixed to every package
Of such fertilixsrs or manure, and to ac-
company or 60 with every parcel or lot OF
the same.
Sec. 8. Any person selling, offering or
exposing for sale any commercial fertil-
iEer without the statement an required by
the first section OF this act, or with Z
label stating that said fertilizer contains
q larger percentage OF any one or more of
the constituents mentioned In said Sec
specting the sale OF which all the provi-
sions OF the foregoing section have not
been fully complied with, shall pay a fine
OF fifty dollars for the frst offense and
one hundred dollars for each subsequent
offense.
manufacturing. importing or purchasing
fertilizers for their own use, and not to
sell in this state.
Sec z. The State Board OF Agriculture
shall cause to be collected and analysed
by the chemist of the Rhode Island State
Agricultural Experiment Station or dep
uty, samples OF such fertiliZing materials
as are subject to the conditions of this
act, which may from time to time be
sold, offered or exposed for sale in this
state, and the director of the Rhode Is
land State Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion shall cause the results OF the anal
yses Of fertilizers collected under this
act to be published, and issue the results
to the farmers OF the state as rapidly az
the progress of the work will allow, to-
gether with the comparative commercial
value per ton, and such other additional
information as circumstances may ad-
wise. The chemist shall compile the
results of the analyses Ct the fertilizers
collected under this act and furnish q
copy of the same to the secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture for publica-
tion in their report.
Sec. 8. The chemist of the Rhode Is
land State Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion is hereby authorized, in person or
by deputy, to take q sample not exceed
ing two pounds in weight for analysis
from any lot or package OF fertilizer or
any material used for manurial purposes
which may be in the possession of any
manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer;
but said samples shall be taken in the
presence OF said party or parties in inter-
est or their representatives, and taken
from parcel or q number OF packages
which shall be not less than 10 per cent
OF the whole lot inspected, and shall be
thoroughly mixed, divided into two sam
sealed ana label placed on each, stating
the name or brand of the fertilizer or
material sampled, the name OF the party
from whose stock the sample was taken
and the time and place of taking the
same, and said label shall also be signed
by the chemist or his deputy and by the
party or parties in interest or their rep
resentatives present at the taking and
scaling Of said sample; one Of said sam
pies shall be retained by the chemist or
deputy, and the other by the party whose
stock was sampled. Every person vio-
lating this act shall be prosecuted by the
secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, who may employ experts IL neces-
sary, and who shall not be required to
give surety for costs; there shall be no
prosecution in relation to the quality OF
the fertilizer or fertilizing material il the
same shall be found su ubstantially equiva-
lent TO the guaranteed statement made
by the manufacturer.
Sec. 8. For all the purposes of this act
fertilizers shall be considered as distinct
brands when differing either in guaran-
teed composition, trade, name or in any
other characteristic method OF marking
OF whatever nature.
Sec. 10. The expenses of collection,
analysis, printing and distribution au-
thorized by this act shall be paid from
and out OF the moneys received by the
general treasurer under the provisions OF
Section 3 OF this act, but no bill for the
expenses incurred under the provisions
of this act shall be paid from the treasury
Of the state unless the same shall have
been first approved and certified to by
the State Board of Agriculture.
Sec. IL. This act shall take effect upon
and after its passage, and Chapter 5S4 of
the Public Laws and all acts and parts OF
acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.