may direct. The said Commissioner shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem proper for organizing and conducting such institutes, and may call on the President of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to furnish one or more lecturers from the faculty or student body, whose traveling expenses shall be paid going to or returning from the institute work. The said Commissioner may also employ one or more lecturers, male or female, at nominal salaries, and traveling expenses while so employed, to perform such duties in connection with institute work as he may deem best, provided he has the approval of the Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration. The course of instruction at such institutes shall be so arranged as to present to those in attendance the results of the most recent investigations in practical and scientific agriculture.

Expenses, How Paid.

[Sec. 3.] The amounts for salaries, conducting institutes, publishing proceedings, printing, advertising, etc., shall be paid out of the funds appropriated and set aside annually for Farmers' Institute work, on the warrant of the Commissioner, signed by the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration. But, in no year shall the aggregate sum expended by the Commissioner, for salaries and conducting said institutes, exceed the sum appropriated for that purpose.

PARIS GREEN.

Board of Agriculture and Immigration to Regulate Sale of Paris Green.

88. [Sec. 1, Act 174, 1904, p. 355.] The Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration shall be charged with the duties of regulating the sale and purity of Paris green used as an insecticide in this State.

Distribution of Circulars.

89. [Sec. 2.] It shall be the duty of the Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, or its commissioner, at the opening of each season to issue and distribute circulars setting forth the brands of Paris green and their percentage of arsenic as claimed by the dealers, and to more particularly describe them, they shall be separated into two classes, viz:

Those brands containing fifty per cent or more of arsenic shall be classed as "strictly pure," and second, all falling below this percentage shall be classed as "impure."

Labels.

90.

[Sec. 3.] It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to cause to be prepared "labels" of suitable material, fit to be attached to packages of Paris green, and to have printed thereon the word "Guaranteed," with a blank space into which may be stamped by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration the words "strictly pure," or "impure," as the guarantee may require; also the year or season in which the same are to be used, and a fac-simile of the signature of said Commissioner. The said labels shall be furnished by the said Commissioner to any dealer in Paris green, who shall have complied with the provisions of this act upon payment by the said dealer to the said Commissioner of fifty cents for a sufficient number to label one hundred pounds of said Paris green. All Paris green carried over in stock from one year to another by merchants and dealers shall be restamped at the commencement of each year, which is hereby set as May 1st, and such stock so carried over shall be restamped at the expense of such merchant or dealer at the rate of one-half cent per pound, and shall be subject to all the requirements of this act. All merchants and dealers having stock on hand on April 30th, of each year, are hereby required to notify the Chief Inspector of Fertilizers of the quantity of Paris green they have on hand, the quantity of Paris green purchased since May 1st, of the previous year, itemizing each shipment according to date, number of pounds, number of packages, and stating plainly from whom each shipment. is purchased and said statement shall be made under oath.

Seller Must Attach Labels.

91. [Sec. 4.] [Sec. 4.] It shall be the duty of every person before offering for sale any Paris green as an insecticide in this State to attach or cause to be attached to each package one of the labels herein before described, designating the quantity of Paris green in the package to which it is attached. Any person who shall counterfeit or use a counterfeit of the label prescribed by this act, or who shall use them a second time, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars; one half of which

shall be paid to the informer, which fine may be doubled or trebled at each second or third conviction, and so on progressively for subsequent convictions.

Duties of Manufacturers and Dealers.

95. [Sec. 5.] Any person manufacturing, dealing in, selling or soliciting orders in the State of Louisiana, for the sale of Paris green, shall, when he has agreed to sell any lot of Paris green, notify in writing, the Chief State Inspector of Fertilizers of the sale, the name of manufacturer, the number of pounds, and the number of packages in the lot sold, and the names of the seller and purchaser, and the location and situation of the lot of Paris green so sold, and when so notified the inspector of fertilizers shall proceed to sample said lot and shall forward to the State Chemist such sample for analysis and the vendor shall not ship or deliver the lot or lots sold to the purchaser until such inspector has made such inspection, provided that in the event the inspection before shipment or delivery to the purchaser be found to be impracticable, then said inspection shall be made immediately after actual delivery to the purchaser or so soon thereafter as practicable under the circumstances. Any person who has qualified according to the requirements of this act to deal in Paris green and who fails to notify the Chief Inspector of Fertilizers of any shipment of Paris green which they or their agents make to a point in Louisiana, shall be liable for each violation to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00) which fine shall be recoverable before any court of competent jurrisdiction, at the suit of the Commissioner without bond or advance cost, and shall revert to the Paris green fund, five violations of this nature shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of any Paris green license issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration. Any person who shall sell any package of Paris green which has not been stamped as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, shall be fined the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for each lot of Paris green so sold, and the said person shall be liable besides to a penalty of five dollars ($5.00) for each omission to stamp each package, and each omission to constitute a separate offense, which penalty may be sued for either by the Commissioner or any other person and shall revert to the Paris green fund. It being understood that this provision applies to any lot of Paris green not sufficiently stamped to cover the total

number of pounds in any one shipment. And it shall be the duty of the Attorney General, and of the several District Attorneys, when requested by the Commissioner to enjoin any person, firm or corporation resident or non-resident, from manufacturing or selling or soliciting orders for the sale of Paris green for use in this State without complying with all the provisions of this act without bond or advance cost. That the commissioner shall have a privilege on any Paris green sold in this State in violation and contravention of the provisions of this act, and may proceed by writ of provisional seizure against Paris green so sold in the hands of whomsoever the same may be, and wheresoever he may find the same, regardless of the domicile of the owner thereof, to recover the fines and penalties due for the legal sale thereof, by presenting a petition to a competent judge or magistrate within whose jurisdiction said Paris green is found, stating on oath at the foot of the petition the amount and nature of the demand, the Paris green on which the privilege exists, praying that the Paris green be seized to satisfy the claim any pay the costs of suit, and thereafter the proceedings in said suit or suits shall be conducted in the manner provided for in Articles two hundred and ninety-two (292), two hundred and ninety-three (293), two hundred and ninety-four (294) and twɔ hundred and ninety-five (295) of the Code of Practice all of which are hereby made applicable to the proceedings herein provided for, provided that if there be judgment in favor of plaintiff in such suits, with privilege on the Paris green, and the same be ordered to be sold to satisfy such judgment, the Commissioner shall, prior to the sale draw proper sample from said Paris green, and cause the same to be analyzed by the official chemist and shall affix to the packages thereof the guarantee stamps as required by this act so that the purchaser at the sheriff's or constable's sale may purchase the said Paris green under a full guarantee, as provided for in this act.

Injunction obtained under this section could not be dissolved on bond. State vs. Crozier, 50 A. 245.

Sale of Fraudulent Paris Green Forbidden.

93. [Sec. 6.] No fraudulent Paris green shall be sold for use in this State; the price of fraudulent Paris green shall not be collected by any process of law; no person buying fraudulent Paris green in this State or sold for use in this State shall be bound in any manner to pay the price or cost thereof;

all Paris green sold in this State or for use in this State without having been inspected or stamped as provided for in this act shall be conclusively presumed to be fraudulent Paris green, within the meaning of this prohibitory law, the price of which shall not be collected, and all notes, contracts and obligations based on the sale thereof shall be null and void.

Certificate of Official Chemist as Evidence.

94. [Sec. 7.] The copy of the official chemist's analysis of any Paris green certified to by him, shall be admissible as evidence in any court of the State on trial of any issue involving the merits of said Paris green.

What Manufacturer's Statement Must Show.

95. [Sec. 8.] It shall be the duty of any manufacturer or dealer in original packages of Paris green before the same is offered for sale in this State to submit to the Commissioner of Agriculture a written or printed statement, setting forth, First. The brands of Paris green to be sold; the number of pounds contained in each package in which it is to be put upon the market for sale, and the name or names of the manufacturers and the place of manufacture. Second. The statement setting forth the amount of arsenic which they are willing to guarantee the said Paris green to contain, and the statement so printed shall be considered as constituting a guarantee to the purchaser, that every package of such Paris green contains not less than the amount of arsenic set forth in the statement.

Certificate to Dealers.

96. [Sec. 9.] Every person proposing to deal in Paris green shall, after filing the statement provided for with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration receive from the said Commissioner of Agriculture a certificate stating that he has complied with the foregoing section, which certificate shall be furnished by the Commissioner without any charge therefor. Said certificate when furnished, shall authorize the party receiving the same to deal in this State in Paris green. No person who has failed to file the statement aforesaid, and to receive the certificate of authority aforesaid, shall be authorized to deal in this State in Paris green, and any person so dealing in this State without having filed the aforesaid statement and received the certificate aforesaid, shall be liable for each violation to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, which