Chap. 888.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1898,
entitled an act to preserve the purity of all field and garden seed, and to define
the ability of the seHers of allsuch seed as guarantors that all such seed are true
tu kind and name as represented at the time of sale.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all seedsmen
and others who sell farm or girden seeds to be used in producing crops
for sale or for family use shall be bound as guarantors that such seeds
are true to kind and name as represented at the time of sale, whether
said seeds were raised by theseller or by another; and if such seeds are
sold by an agent the principal shall be bound by the representations of
said agent in regard to the kind and name of the seed so sold.

2. If any paper or pickage containing seed sold in this state for plant-
ing or seeding has printed or written thereon the name, kind or quality
of the seeds therein, the seller shall be bound in the courts of this com-
monwealth by the same written or printed statement, unless it be
allirmatively proven that there was some other agreement between the
parties in respect thereto.

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