Chap. 379.—An ACT to prevent the sale of' inferior and worthless vegetable
seed in the State of Virginia. [H B 62]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
commissioner of agriculture and immigration is hereby authorized
to determine, so far as it is practicable, the purity, viability and true-
ness to variety of vegetable seed sold, offered or exposed for sale or
distribution within this State, by the examination, analysis or test of
samples of such seed secured in the open market; and when such
seeds are found to be adulterated, misbranded or of poor quality,
according to standards to be established by the said commissioner, the
results of such examination, analysis or test shall be published, to-
gether with the names of persons by whom the seeds were put up or
packeted and the names of the persons by whom offered for sale,
along with such other information as may be of interest to the pur-
chasers, or to the vendors of such vegetable seeds.

2. This act shall be effective on and after the first day of Jan-
uary, nineteen hundred and twenty-three.