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seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per anum, payable one-third out of each fund, for the purpose of defraying operating expenses in payment of the services of the receiver and depositor of said funds, auditing and warrant clerk, and bookkeeper.

Secretary of Commissioner May Be Receiver.

130. [Sec. 2.] The Secretary to the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be made the legally authorized person, when power of attorney is given by the Commissioner, to perform the duties of receiver and depositor of said funds with the State Treasurer, auditing and warrant clerk, and disburser, by and with the approval of the said Commissioner.

Secretary's Bond.

131. [Sec. 3.] The secretary to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, who is hereby, when legally authorized by power of attorney, made the receiver, depositor and dispenser of said funds and other funds appropriated for the use of the Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, auditing and warrant clerk, shall be required to give bond to the State of Louisiana in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the good and faithful performance of said duties.

AGRICULTURAL SEED.

"Agricultural Seed.”

132. [Sec. 1, Act 119, 1914, p. 230.] The term “agricultural seeds" or "agricultural seed" as used in this Act shall include the seeds of red clover, white clover, alsike clover, alfalfa, lespedeza or japan clover, red top, and other grasses and forage plants, corn, rape, oats, rye and other cereals, cotton, truck and garden crops, but shall not include seeds of trees, shrubs and ornamental plants.

Adulterated or Misbranded Seed.

133. [Sec. 2.] It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporations to offer for sale in this state seeds that are adulterated or misbranded.

Label.

134. [Sec. 3.] Every lot of agricultural seeds offered for sale in this State for seeding purposes in packages of one pound

and over guaranteed as to purity shall be accompanied by plainly written or printed statement in the English language stating:

1. Agricultural name of the seed.

2. Full name and address of the person or persons, firm or corporation, offering said seed for sale.

3. Statement stating the percentage of purity of said seeds, and if Johnson grass or dodder or coco is present the percentage of each.

4. Locality where grown.

5. The approximate percentage of germination of such agricultural seed, together with the date of test of germination, provided that this shall not apply to lespedeza seed and oats.

Exceptions.

135. [Sec. 4.] The provisions concerning agricultural seed contained in this act shall not apply to:

1. Any persons selling agricultural seed to be cleaned or graded before being offered for sale for the purpose of seeding and plainly marked on the outside of the container "uncleaned seed.”

2. Any person selling seed that has not been tested for germination that is plainly marked on the outside of the container "germination not tested."

Tests.

136. [Sec. 5.] Sellers or dealers in seed may base their guarantees upon tests or anlyses conducted by themselves their agents, by the State Board of Agriculture, or by the official seed analyst of the United States Department of Agriculture, provided that such test or analyses shall be made in such a manner and under such conditions as the said Board of Agriculture may prescribe.

Tests by Board of Agriculture.

137.

[Sec. 6.]

[Sec. 6.] Whoever buys or sells or sows agricultural seeds defined in this act for use in this State for seeding purposes may submit his samples of such seed to the State Board of Agriculture for examination and tests of purity and germination and said Board of Agriculture shall cause said tests to be made as promptly as possible and shall report the results

of the tests to the sender. For tests of purity and germination, said Board of Agriculture may charge a fee of not more than twenty-five cents for each test, the exact fee depending upon the regulations of the said Board of Agriculture. All monies received as such fees shall be paid to the State Board of Agriculture and shall be used in carrying out the requirements of this Law.

138. [Sec. 7.] The State Board of Agriculture shall inspect, examine, and make analyses of or test seed sold, offered or exposed for sale in the State at such time and place as it may determine. The said Board of Agriculture may appoint such agents as may be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and they shall have free access at all reasonable hours upon and into any premises or structures to make examination of any seeds, and upon the tendering payment therefor at the current value, may take any sample or samples of such seed. Penalty.

139. [Sec. 8.] [Sec. 8.] Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale in this State any agricultural seed for seeding purposes without complying with the requirements of this act or whoever falsely marks or labels any agricultural seeds under Section 3. of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

Board of Agriculture May Condemn Seed.

140. [Sec. 9.] The State Board of Agriculture shall have the power to condemn seed and compel it to be sold for other purposes than for seeding when the tests of purity or germination fall below a certain minimum which the said Board may fix, provided, that this minimum has been published in the rules and regulations of the board.

Board of Agriculture Shall Provide Rules.

141. [Sec. 10.] The State Board of Agriculture shall provide a set of rules and regulations to carry this law into effect, and that said rules and regulations shall be printed and distributed to seed dealers and growers.

Board of Agriculture May Publish Results of Inspection.

142. [Sec. 11.] The State Board of Agriculture may publish the result of its inspection and analyses of seeds from time to time as it may deem advisable.

Law Goes Into Effect, When.

143. [Sec. 12.] This law shall take effect from and after March 1, 1915.

ALIMONY.

How Parents May Demand Support.

144. [Sec. 1, Act 241, 1910, p. 405.] When any person is in necessitous circumstances, that person shall have the right to demand from his or her children or grandchildren alimony for support, and proceedings for that purpose may be instituted in any District Court and shall be tried summarily, and the Court after hearing the parties shall if it finds the plaintiff to be in need and the defendant or defendants able to contribute to the support of the ancestor claiming it, award such amount as may be deemed proper, and shall order same payable weekly or monthly, and said judgment shall be at all times subject to the control of the court, by either increasing, decreasing or entirely canceling, as circumstances may require, and all proceedings subsequent to the rendition of the judgment may be by rule.

How Judgment Enforced.

145. [Sec. 2.] For any judgment rendered in accordance with this Act, execution may issue as in ordinary cases, but all property shall be liable thereto and none exempt therefrom and payment of the amount due may be enforced by the court by the process of contempt, should it be impossible to collect the judgment under execution.

Scope of Act.

146. [Sec. 3.] All laws or parts of laws in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so far as they do conflict; but nothing contained in this Act shall affect any other rights that parents or their ascendants may have against their children, or other descendants, but shall be in addition thereto.

ALLIGATORS.

Police Juries May Protect.

147. [Act 37, 1908, p. 37.] The Police Juries of their respective Parishes throughout the State of Louisiana are hereby

authorized to enact such laws as they deem best to prohibit the killing and destruction of alligators and to fix a penalty for the violation of the same.

APPRENTICES AND INDENTED PERSONS.

Must Serve Out Their Time.

148. [R. S. 70.] Any person who may bind himself, or be bound as an apprentice or indented servant, in any art, mystery or occupation, or as a servant for the purpose of ordinary labor, shall be bound to serve the time expressed in his indenture, subject to the following provisions and exceptions:

Minors, How Bound.

149. [R. S. 71.] If the party so bound be under the age of twenty-one years, he must be bound by and with the assent of his parent or tutor, or in case there be no such person in the parish where he resides, then by the Mayor of the City of New Orleans, if in the parish of Orleans, or by the parish judges of their respective parishes throughout the State.

Contract, How Dissolved.

150. [R. S. 73.] The death or removal of the master from the State before the term of an apprentice expires, shall dissolve the contract of apprenticeship.

151. [R. S. 74.] Whereas, great inconveniences do frequently result from losses sustained by masters and mistresses of apprentices and indented servants, for want of some uniform mode of binding them and regulating their conduct and behavior during the term of time expressed in their respective indentures, and to prevent them absenting themselves from the service of their master or mistress, and punish them for their improper behavior, as well as to make the covenants between them mutually obligatory; for remedy thereof:

Apprentices Must Serve Their Time.

152. [R. S. 75.] All and every person or persons who may be bound to serve either as an apprentice in any art, mystery or occupation, or as a servant for the sole purpose of ordinary or hard laobr, shall be bound to serve the term of time expressed in their indentures respectively; provided, always, That if the party so bound as aforesaid be under the age of twenty-one

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