Chap. 113.—An ACT to authorize and provide for a voluntary inspection service
for agricultural products; to constitute certificates issued under this act or
under authority of the Congress of the United States prima facie evidence in
courts of this Commonwealth; and to repeal section 1471 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920. (S B 334]

Approved March 7, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

In order to promote, protect, further and develop the agricultural
interests of this State, the director of division of markets, with the ap-
proval of the commissioner of agriculture, is hereby authorized, when
requested by parties financially interested in a lot of any agricultural
products, to investigate and certify the quality, condition, grade or other
classification of such agricultural product, under such rules and regula-
tions as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as he deems
reasonable for the services rendered or performed by employees or licensed
agents of the division of markets of the department of agriculture.

2. Allfees and moneys collected or received by employees or licensed
agents of the division’of markets of the department of agriculture in
their official capacities shall be paid into the State treasury to be there
maintained in a separate fund which is hereby appropriated through the
department of agriculture to the division of markets for carrying out
the provisions of this act.

3. The director of the division of markets with the approval of the
commissioner of agriculture may appoint employees or license agents
to assist in carrying out. the provisions of this act, may fix their compen-
sation and remove such appointees at any time.

4. Certificates of inspection and re-inspection issued under this act
by authorized agents of the clivision of markets of the department. of
agriculture and those relating to the grade, classification, quality or
condition of agricultural products issued under authority of the congress
of the United States shall be accepted in any court of this Common-
wealth as prima facie evidence of the true grade, classification, condition
or quality of such agricultural product at the time of its inspection.
5. Section fourteen hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
twenty, is hereby repealed.