An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1870/1871 |
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Law Number | 227 |
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Law Body
Chap. 227.—An ACT to Require Manufacturers of Fertilizers to Label
their Packages with a Correct Analysis of the Same.
In Force March 29, 1871.
1, Be it enacted by the general assembly, That all commer-
cial manures and artificially manufactured or manipulated fer-
tilizers brought into or manufactured in the state of Virginia,
for sale, and sold, or kept for sale therein, shall have perma-
nently ,affixed to every sack, bag, barrel, box, or other package
thereof, a stamped or printed label, which shall specify legibly,
the name or names of the manufacturer or manufacturers, his,
her, or their places of business, the net weight of such sack,
bag, barrel, box, or other package, the component parts of
such manure or fertilizer, the per centage, by weight, which it
contains of the following constituents, viz: of phosphoric acid,
soluble in pure cold water; of phosphoric acid, insoluble in
pure cold water; of available ammonia, potash, and soda.
2. That if any person shall sell, or keep for sale, any com-
mercial manures, or artificially manufactured, or manipulated
fertilizers, not labeled in accordance with the requirements of
this act, or shall affix any label to any sack, bag, barrel, box, or
other package, not expressing truly the component parts of
said manures or fertilizers, or expressing a larger per centage
of the constituents, or either of them, mentioned in the first
section of this act, than is contained therein, he shall be pun-
ished by a fine of one hundred dollars for the first offence and
two hundred dollars for the second and each subsequent of-
fence, to be recovered on presentment, information, or indict-
ment found and conviction had in the county, or corporation
court within whose jurisdiction said offence may have been
committed, one-half of such fine to be paid to the informer
and the other half to the state.
3. That any purchaser of commercial manures or artificially
manufactured, or manipulated fertilizers, bearing labels as pro-
vided for in the first section of this act, who shall be injured or
defrauded by the contents of the sacks, bags, barrels, boxes,
or other packages, not conforming in quality, and quantity to
the labels thereon, may recover from the seller or sellers thereof,
by proper action at law, an amount equal to the purchase money
of such manure or fertilizer; and in case the purchase is made
of an agent of any person or persons, residing out of the
limits of this state, manufacturing, compounding, preparing,
and furnishing for sale any such commercial manures or fer-
tilizers, the purchaser thereof may, at his option, proceed, by
attachment, as now provided for by law in case of non-resi-
dent and absconding debtors, against any property, rights, or
credits of any such person or persons selling, manufacturing,
compounding, preparing, or furnishing said manures or ferti-
lizers, when such property, rights, and credits can be found in
the limits of this state.
4, That the words “ commercial manures, artificially manu-
factured, or manipulated fertilizers,” shall be taken and con-
strued to include all manures and fertilizers which shall be sold
for a greater price than three-fourths of one cent per pound;
and that any arrangement or agreement, verbal or written,
made by and between any seller and purchaser of said manures
or fertilizers, for the purpose of exonerating the seller or manu-
facturer from liability for a violation of any of the provisions
of this act, shall not exempt such seller, manufacturer, com-
pounder, preparer, or furnisher of said manures or fertilizers,
from presentment, information, indictment, and fine, as 1s
hereinbefore provided for.
5. That by the term “soluble phosphoric acid,” wherever
used in this act, is meant phosphoric acid in any form or com-
bination readily soluble in pure cold water; and by the term
“insoluble phosphoric acid,” is meant phosphoric acid in any
form or combination which requires the action of an acid upon
it to cause it to become readily soluble in pure cold water.
6. That any manufacturer, dealer, agent, or other person or
persons, who shall adulterate, add to, or take any thing from
any commercial manures, or artificially manufactured, or ma-
nipulated fertilizers, labeled in accordance with the provisions
of this act, or who shall use the brand or trade mark of any
manufacturer or dealer other than his own, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court
having jurisdiction, be punished by a fine of not less than one
nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisonment in jail
not exceeding six months.
7. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.