CHAPTER 687

An Act to authorize and direct the Treasurer of the State of Virginia
to pay unused funds from a bear and deer stamp to the treasurer
of certain counties for deposit in a special fund subject to the order
of the local governing body of the county, less deduction of a per-
centage of the gross amount on account of costs of administering
this fund, for the benefit of wild life in the county. rH 742]

Approved April 7, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. The Treasurer of the State of Virginia is authorized and directed
to pay to the treasurer of Highland County, out of the Game Protection
Fund, all amounts in hand collected in Highland County from the sale of
a stamp to hunt and kill bear and deer, before the thirtieth of June,
nineteen fifty four, less amounts paid in settlement of claims for dam-
ages to crops by deer and livestock killed by bear, less eight per
centum of the gross amount collected on account of administrative costs,
to be deposited in a special fund by the treasurer of Highland County,
and expended subject to the order of the governing body of Highland
County for the protection, interests and welfare of wildlife in Highland
County.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-218 of the Code of Virginia as
amended, relating to the labeling, sale and offering for sale of agrt-
cultural seeds.

[H 754]

Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 3-213 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 3-218. (a) The provisions of §§ 3-210 and 3-211 do not apply:

(1) To seed or grain not intended for sowing purposes, except as
required by § 3-210 (c).

(2) To seed in storage in, or consigned to, a seed cleaning or pro-
cessing establishment for cleaning or processing; provided, that any
labeling or other representation which may be made with respect to such
unclean seed shall be subject to this chapter.

(3) * To untested seed sold on his own premises by a grower who
sells only seed produced by him, which seed when sold or delivered shall
bear ae label on each package or bag as follows: “These seed have not been
tested”

(b) No person shall be subject to the penalties of this chapter for
having sold, offered or exposed for sale in this State any agricultural or
vegetable seeds, which were incorrectly labeled or represented as to
kind, variety or origin which seeds cannot be identified by examination
thereof, unless he has failed to obtain an invoice or grower’s declaration
giving kind, or kind and variety and origin, if required, and to take such
other. precautions as may be necessary to insure the identity to be that
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