The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-03-18
AN INDEPENDENT ACT
I'm Reference to the Purchase OF Com
mercial Fertilizers.

To remind purchasers of CONNER.
cial fertilizer of their privileges un6e,
the law we reproduce an act Of the
Legislature, approved February 10,
1900. II there has been any acts,
amending or abrogating these statutes
we have failed to see them.
An Act, TO Provide a means whereby
any purchaser, in This State, OF
any commercial fertilizers or Ma
nures, may have the same analyz-
ed by Clemson Agricultural and
Mechanical College, free of costs,
and to provide penalty for deliv-
ering fertilizers or manures short In
ingredients appearing on sack or
vessel holding same.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
South Carolina: That from and after
the passage OF this Act, any citizen OF
this State who shall purchase any
commercial fertilizers or manures,
shall have the same aualy zed by Glenn
son Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege by taking q sample of same with
In ten days Of receipt thereof from at
least ten per cent. Of such fertilizers
in the presence Of at least two disin-
terested witnesses. One to be chosen
by the purchaser and one by the seller
who shall certify that such sample
was taken from such fertilizers or ma
nures, which certificate, with the
sample, shall be sealed by third dis.
interested party In the presence OF
said witnesses, and directed to Glenn
son Agricultural and Mechanical Col.
lege.
Section 2. The said college shall
have the Ssit6 sample analysed free Q!
cost, and within three months after
receiving the sample, supply the pur-
chaScrS OF such fertilizers or manures
with certificate giving the per cent.
OF the different fertilizing ingredients
OF same, signed by the Chemist OF
Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical
College, which certificates shall be ad-
missable as evidence in all suits rela-
tive to such fertilizers or mapures
whether the same be instituted by
vendor or purchaser Of same.
Section 3. That any vendor OF COM
mercial fertilizers or manures whose
goods or wares fall short to the ex-
tent of ten per cent. in any fertilzing
ingredient guaranteed by the analysis
appearing on the sack or vessel hold
ing same, when delivered to the pur-
chaser, shall forfeit one-half the sale
price thereof, to be recovered by suit
or set up as a cOunter-claim to an &C.
tion for the purchase price Of such
fertilizers or manures.
Section 4. Be it further enacted:
That IL any seller or vendor of ferti.
liZers or commercial manures shall re-
fuse, decline or neglect to chose wit
ness, as provided in Section l, after
having been notified or requested by
the purchaser. SO to do, then he or
they shall have forfeited their rights
so to DO, and the purchaser shall select
two witnesses, who shall select the
third witness, who shall proceed to
take samples as hereinbefore provid-
ed. All samples of fertilizers drawn
under the provision OF this Act shall
be subject to such other rules as may
be prescribed by the Board Of Trus-
tees "f Clemson College not inconsis
tent with the provisions of this Act.
Section 5. All Acts inconsistent
with this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Approved the 10th day of February
a. d. 1900.