Chap. 24.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to
rotect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial
ertilizers and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold and

fixing the penalties to be incurred for violation of the same, approved February
24, 159U, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1894.

Approved December 22, 1897,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
anf an ant antitloed “An aot th mroateet and advance agriculture hy regi.
lating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee
and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties
incurred for violation of the same,”’ approved February twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by an act approved
March eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled ‘‘An act to
amend and re-enact sections two, four, six, and ten of an act entitled an
act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity
of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and condition upon which
they are to be sold and fixing the penalties incurred for violation of the
same,’’ approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be amendcd and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. It shall be the duty of any manufacturer or dealer in commercial
fertilizers, annually, before the same are offered for sale in the state, to
pay to the commissioner of agriculture a registration fee of one hundred
dollars, which fee shall entitle the said manufacturer or dealer to register
with the commissioner of agriculture not exceeding ten names or brands
under which he proposes to sell his fertilizers in this state, and for each
and every additional name or brand over and above the ten above pro-
vided for the manufacturer or dealer shall pay an additional registration
fee of ten dollars; but anyone manufacturing not more than five hundred
tons in one year, upon certifving the same to the commissioner of
agriculture, shall pay a tax of ten dollars only for each and every
one hundred tons so manufactured in each vear. It shall also be the
duty of the said manufacturer or dealer to submit to the commissioner
of agriculture a written or printed statement setting forth, first, the
names and brands under which his said fertilizers are to be sold, the
number of pounds contained, or to be contained, In the package in
which they are to be put upon the market for sale, and the name
or names of the manufacturers and the place of manufacture; second,
a statement sctting forth the per centum of the named ingredients which
they are willing to guarantee said fertilizers to contain—first, ammonia;
second, available phosphoric acid; third, insoluble phosphoric acid:
fourth, potash soluble in water. Such statements so to be furnished
shall he considered as constituting a guarantee to the purchaser that every
package of such fertilizer contains not less than the per centum of each
ingredient set forth in the statement. This shall, however, not preclude
the party making the statement from setting forth any other ingredient
which his fertilizer may contain, which additional ingredient shall be
considered as embraced in the guarantee above stated: provided, that
the parties taking out licenses under this act shall be construed as tak-
ing the same, subject to the right of the state to impose a further tax
upon them during the license year by further legislation.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.