The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-24

March "a, 1851
| HOUSE BILL No. s02.
AN ACT amending sections 1, 5, 6, IL and
13 of chapter 1888 of the Session Laws of
1913 and repeating said original sections.
| Be ii enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
! Section 1. That section / of chapter 1SS
of the Session Laws of the state of Kansas
for 1913, be amended to read as follows
! Sec. L. That the term, commercial feed
| ing stuff shall be held to include all the
feeding stuffs used for feeding live stock
and poultry; except (a) whole seeds or
grains; OBJ whole hays, straws, cottonseed
other materials; and (c) all other materials
containing sixty per cent or more of water.
Sec. 2. That section of chapter 1873 of
the Session Laws of the state of Kansas
for 1913, be amended to read as follows
Sec. 5. That each and every manufacturer
importer, jobber, firm, association, cor
any poultry foods, or feeding stuffs by
of starch fset9ries glucose fac
breweries and distilleries, meat packing
establishments or slaughter houses; shall
pay to the director of the Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan, Kansas, an
for each ton of such commercial feeding
stuff sold, Offered or exposed for, sale or
distributed in this state and shall deliver
with each lot shipped In bulk and affiX to
each parcel of the above named CONNER
cial feeding stuffs, a tax tag, stamp or
stating, that all charges in this section
stamps or labels shall be issued to cover
ten. twenty-five, fifty and one hundred
pounds. Whenever any of the above named
commercial feeding -stuffs is offered ex-
posed for sale, in bulk otherwise stored,
the manufacturer, importer, jobber, firm,
association, corporation or person keeping
the same for sale shall keep on hand cards
upon which shall be printed the statement
required by the provisions of section 2,
and when any person, firm, or corporation
shall sell or deliver any such feeding stuffs
to another to be kept for sale at retail in
bulk or package, such person, firm or cor
poration shall furnish Herewith, sufficient
tax tags or stamps to cover all sales there
after to be made of such feeding stuffs
and whenever any such feeding stuff shall
be sold at wholesale or retail in bulk or
package, the person, firm or corporation
selling the same shall deliver Herewith, a
tax tag or stamp, showing the payment OF
the tax required by this section, and upon
request card upon which shall appear
the statement required by the provisions
Sec. 3. That section of chapter 1888 of
the Session Laws of the state of Kansas
for 1913, be amended to read follows:
Sec. g. That each and every manufacturer,
importer, jobber, firm, association. corpor-
alton or person who shall sell, offer or ex-
pose for sale, or distribute within this
state any brand of commercial feeding
stuff, other than those mentioned in see
peg no staon of
sas State Agricultural College at Manhat-
tan, Kansas, an annual registration fee of
ing stuff sold, offered or exposed for sale
or distributed within this state and in case
the same brand is manufactured at more
plants that one, separate registration fee
shall be paid as herein provided on said
brand for each separate manufacturing
plant; provided, that flour mills having the
capacity to manufacture more than three
hundred barrels of flour in each twenty
f"n o 5000 oy each can band e
feeding stuff; provided, further, that flour
mills having the capacity to manufacture
fifty barrels or less of flour in each TWEEN
ty-four hours, shall pay annual regis
tration fee of $500 for each brand of such
feeding stuff. Be it also further provided
that the annual registration fee on chops
and corn bran shall be as follows: (a)
81 90 when the annual output of chops or
corn bran does not exceed fifty tons. OBJ
$500 when the annual output of chops or
corn bran is more than fifty tons and does
annual output of chops or corn bran is
more than 200 tons and does not exceed
500 tons.
1t is also provided that any firm or per-
registering any chops corn bran
and paying less than the maximum fee of
$500 as provided in this section shall on
or before June 80 of each year file with
the director of the experiment station
sworn statement of the maximum amount
of said chops corn bran sold within the
state during the past fiscal year.
Sec. 4. That section II of chapter 1sS of
the Session Laws of the state of Kansas
for 1913, be amended to read as follows
Sec. IL. That any manufacturer, importer,
person who shall sell, offer or expose for
sale, or distribute in this state any COM
mercial feeding STUFF without having at
tached thereto or furnished Herewith such
tax stamp labels, or tags as required by
the provisions of this act; who shall use
the required tax stamps, labels or tags a
second time, or use a counterfeit of such
tax stamps, labels or tags, or who shall
impede, obstruct. hinder, otherwise pre-
vent attempt to prevent said director of
the Agricultural Experiment Station his
authorized agent in the performance of his
duty in connection with the provisions of
this act; or who shall sell, offer or expose
for sale, distribute in this state any
commercial feeding stuff as defined in
section 1, without complying with the
auirements of the provisions of this act;
or who shall sell, offer or expose for sale,
or distribute in this state any commercial
feeding stuff which contains smaller per
centum of crude protein crude fat, a
larger per centum of crude fibre than is
certified to be contained therein; or who
shall sell, offer expose for sale, dis
tribute within this state without truly
every ingredient used in its manufacture
as required by section of this act; or
who shall sell. offer, expose for SALE or
distribute within this state any commercial
feeding stuff that has been adulterated
with foreign mineral matter, or other for
mill sweepings, weed seeds, peanut shells,
corn cob meal, corn bran, oat bulls, oat
clippings or other materials of less
Or of little or no feeding value,
without plainly stating in the label
hereinbefore described the kind and
shall be deemed guilty of violation of the
provisions of this act and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not more than one
hundred dollars tS100.001 for the first vio-
lation and not less than hundred dol
lars ($10O.O0) for each subsequent viola J