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kinds of agricultural seeds which are grown together or which are grown separate and mixed for seeding purposes, each present in excess of five per centum (5%) by weight of the total mixture. When sold, offered or exposed for sale in lots of one pound or more, such mixture shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place on the outside of the container or bulk lot of such mixture, a plainly written or printed tag or label, in the English language stating:

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b. The name and minimum percentage by weight of each kind of agricultural seed present in such mixture in excess of five per centum (5%) by weight of the total mixture.

c. The name and maximum number of each kind of seed of the "noxious weeds" provided for in section 2 of this act which are present per pound of the mixture.

d. The minimum percentage of germination of each kind of agricultural seed present in the mixture in excess of five per centum (5%) by weight of the entire mixture, together with the month and year said seed was tested.

e.

The name and the address of the vendor of the seed mixture. 6866s. Seeds exempted from tagging and labeling.-5. Agricultural seeds or seed mixtures as defined in section 1. and 4. of this act shall be exempt from the provisions of this act:

a.

When possessed, exposed for sale or sold for manufacturing or food purposes only.

b. When sold to merchants to be recleaned before being sold, offered or exposed for sale for seeding purposes.

C. When in store for the purpose of recleaning or not possessed, sold, offered or exposed for sale for seeding purposes within the state. d. When grown, sold and delivered by the producer on his own premises for seeding purpose by the purchaser himself. If, however, said seed be advertised for sale through the medium of the public press or by circular or catalogue, or if seed is delivered by a common carrier, except when transported for the purpose of being recleaned as herein before provided, said producer shall be considered a vendor and said seed must be labeled in accordance with the provisions of this act.

6866t. Label delivered with every sale.-6. The tag or label specified in section 3 and 4 of this act must be delivered to the purchaser with every sale of agricultural seed as defined in this act if said sale amounts to one pound or more whether said sale is in bulk or in package.

6866u. State seed commission.-7. The duty of administering this act and carrying out its provisions and requirements shall be vested

in the director of Purdue university agricultural experiment station, who shall appoint the state chemist as state seed commissioner. The said state seed commissioner upon notice to the seed trade of this state, shall be empowered to adopt such reasonable "rules and regulations" as may be deemed necessary in order to secure the efficient administration of this act; Provided further That the said commissioner shall maintain a laboratory with necessary equipment and may appoint such analysts, inspectors and assistants as may be necessary for the proper administration and carrying out of the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of the state seed commissioner in his discretion to publish, or cause to be published, the results of the examination, analysis and test of any sample of agricultural seed or mixture of such seed, drawn as provided for in section eight, together with any other information he may deem advisable.

6866v. Seed analysis and test, authority of commissioner, notice.8. It shall be the duty of the said commissioner, or his duly authorized agents, to inspect, examine, make analysis and test any agricultural seeds sold, offered or exposed for sale within this state for seeding purposes within the state, at such time and place, and to such extent as he may determine. The commissioner and his agents, shall have free access at all reasonable business hours to any premises or structures to make examination and draw samples of any such agricultural seeds or seed mixtures whether such seeds are upon the premises of the owner or consignee of such seeds, on the premises or in the possession of any warehouse, elevator, railway, or steamship company and he is hereby given authority in person or by his agents, upon notice to the dealer, his agent or the representative of any warehouse, elevator, railway or steamship company, if present, to take for analysis a composite sample of such agricultural seeds. In case a sample drawn as provided herein upon test or analysis fails to conform to the statement on the tag or label attached to the lot from which said sample was secured, or is found to violate any of the provisions of this act, the vendor or consignee of said lot of seed shall be notified and a copy of said notice mailed to the person, firm or corporation whose tag or label was found affixed thereto.

6866w. Sale of agricultural seeds-False labels.-9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, offer or expose for sale within this state any agricultural seeds, or mixture of agricultural seeds, as defined in this act, for seeding purposes within this state without complying with the requirements of this act, or to falsely mark or label any agricultural seeds, or to alter the official tag or label or to use the name and title of the seed commissioner or tag or label not furnished by the seed commissioner or to use the tag or

label of the seed commissioner the second time, or to interfere in any way with the inspectors or assistants in the discharge of the duties herein named.

6866x. Penalty.-10. Every violation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not less than ten dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars. It shall be the duty of every prosecuting attorney to whom the seed commissioner shall report any violation of this act to cause proceedings to be commenced against the person or persons so violating the act, and the same prosecuted in the manner required by law.

6866y. Seed analysis and test, rules and regulations.-11. Any citizen of this state shall have the privilege of submitting to the state seed commissioner samples of agricultural seeds for test and analysis, subject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted by said commissioner.

6866z. Cost of analysis and inspection, labels.-12. For the purpose of defraying the costs of inspection and analysis of agricultural seeds, the tags or labels specified in sections 3 and 4 of this act must be purchased from the seed commissioner who shall receive 8 cents each for 100 pound tags or labels, 6 cents each for 75 pound tags or labels, 4 cents each for 50 pound tags or labels and 2 cents each for 25 pound tags or labels for alfalfa, sweet clover and all grass and clover seeds or mixtures of any of these, and 4 cents each for 100 pound tags or labels, 3 cents each for 75 pound tags or labels, 2 cents each for 50 pound tags or labels, 1 cent each for 25 pound tags or labels, for all other agricultural seeds included in this act.

6866a1. Fees and expenses of commissioners.-13. All money received by the state seed commissioner from the sale of tags and labels shall be paid by the state seed commissioner to the director of the Indiana agricultural experiment station, Purdue university, by whom they shall be paid into the treasury of said Indiana agricultural experiment station, the board of control of which shall expend the same, on proper vouchers to be filed with the auditor of state in meeting all necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of this act, including the employment of inspectors, botanists, expenses in procuring samples, printing bulletins, giving the results of the work in seed inspection as provided for by this act, and for any other expenses of said Indiana agricultural experiment station, as authorized by law. The director of said experiment station shall make to the governor, an annual classified report, showing the total receipts and expenditures of all fees received under the provisions of this act.

6866b1. Repeal.-14. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

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ARTICLE 2.-MISCELLANEOUS.

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6870c. Indiana Historical Commission, distribution of publications.

6867a. Free assistance to blind students.
6868. Donations for high schools.
6870. Duties of trustees, tax levy.

[Acts 1917, p. 679. In force May 31, 1917.]

6867a. Free assistance to blind students.-1. That whenever any blind person has matriculated in any of the departments of Indiana university, Purdue university or the Indiana state normal school and shall make formal request therefor, it shall be the duty of the boards of trustees and the executive officers of such institutions to supply free of charge an assistant for at least three (3) hours per day for the purpose of reading to such student under the direction of the faculty of said institution.

[Acts 1921, p. 690. In force May 31, 1921.]

6868. Donations for high schools.-1. Whenever any person or persons shall donate to any county of the state, any building, or buildings, together with the necessary grounds, of the value of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), in counties having a population of less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) and of the value of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in counties having a population in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) for the purpose of maintaining a county high school or county agricultural school therein, the board of county commissioners of such county may accept such donation for the purpose herein named.

Whenever the board of commissioners of any county contemplated in this act shall have accepted the donation of any building or buildings, together with the grounds appurtenant thereto, as hereinbefore provided, such board of commissioners may, at any time thereafter, donate such building or buildings, together with the ground appurtenant thereto, to the trustee of the school township in which such building or buildings and grounds are situated for the purpose of maintaining a township high school and a township elementary school or a consolidated school or either of them, therein, and the trustee of such township may accept such donation on behalf of such school township for the purpose herein designated, and upon the acceptance thereof such building or buildings and the grounds appurtenant thereto shall be the property of such school township, and shall thereafter be used and maintained for school purposes in the same manner as other property belonging to such school township is used and maintained.

This section amends section 6868 Revision of 1914.

[Acts 1919, p. 715. In force May 15, 1919.]

6870. Duties of trustees, tax levy.-3. It shall be the duty of such board of trustees: First. To levy annually a tax for the support of said county school, on the taxable property of all townships, towns and cities of such county in which no commissioned high school is maintained by the school corporation thereof which tax shall be assessed and collected as the taxes for state and county revenues are assessed and collected: Provided, That no such tax levy in any one (1) year, shall exceed the sum of fifteen cents (15c) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the taxable property in their respective counties. Second. To take control of all property belonging to said school and to make all necessary improvements and repairs to the same; to organize such school and adopt and enforce rules for the government of the same, purchase apparatus and general supplies, employ and pay teachers, appoint superintendent, establish a course of study in compliance with the laws of the state relative to courses of study and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education issued in reference thereto; subject to the conditions hereinafter prescribed, to admit to such county school or to furnish by transfer, high school advantages without cost of tuition to all pupils who are prepared to enter the high school department of the common schools, and who are residents of any township, town or city subject to taxation for the maintenance and support of such county school; subject to the conditions hereinafter prescribed, to fix terms and rules for admitting pupils not resident of their respective counties, and to do all other necessary acts for the proper management of said school.

All laws of the state now or hereafter in force shall apply with reference to the transfer of children of school age for school purposes, and the board of trustees of such county school shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the provisions of law now in force or hereafter enacted relative to the transfer of school children. This section amends section 6870 Revised Statutes of 1914.

[Acts 1921, p. 478. In force May 31, 1921.]

6870c. Indiana Historical Commission, distribution of publications. -3. It shall be the duty of the Indiana historical commission to cause to be edited and published in such form and quantity as it may determine, documentary and other materials on the history of the State of Indiana. Such publications shall be printed and bound at the expense of the said state historical commission by the commissioners of public printing, binding and stationery under the direction and supervision of the said state historical commission. One copy of each volume published shall be furnished to each public library in the state and one copy shall be furnished to the library of each college or normal

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