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troublesome dog that trespasses there provision
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Miscellaneous. is
an offence under
this
Sect.
10.
Poisoned Flesh and
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626. Every person selling or offering or exposing for sale (/^) or Grain. knoAvingly sowing or putting on the ground or other exposed place, Poisoned any grain, seed, or meal steeped in or mixed with poison so as to be grain. dangerous to life, is liable on conviction to a penalty of £10 (i). But this does not apply to the sale of solution etc. for dressing grain or seed for ho)id fide use in agriculture, or to the sowing of such seed {k). Sect. 11.
Regulations as
Sub-Sect.
1.
to
Sale and Adidteration. and Feeding
Fertilisers
Stuffs.
627. Every person who sells, either wholesale or retail, for use as a fertiliser of the soil, any article (hereinafter referred to as a fertiliser) which has been subjected to any artificial process in the United Kingdom, or which has been imported from abroad, must give to the purchaser an invoice stating the name of the article and what are the respective percentages (if any) of nitrogen, soluble phosphates, insoluble phosphates, and potash contained in the article. Such invoice has effect as a warranty by the seller that the actual percentages do not differ from those stated in the invoice beyond
Invoice on sale of fertiliser.
the prescribed limits of error (l). Tne prescribed limits of error representing percentages of the Limits of w^hole bulk of fertiliser sold vary, in the case of soluble phosphates error on sale of fertiliser. from 1 to 4 per cent. in the case of insoluble phosphates from 1 to in the case of nitrogen from '3 to 1 per cent. and in 5 per cent. the case of potash from '3 to '5 per cent., except in the case of kainit and other jDotash salts and nitrate of potash, when either 1 or 2 per cent, is allowed {m).
628. Every person who sells, either wholesale or retail, for use invoice on feedas food for cattle or poultry, any article (hereinafter referred to as ^^^^ ^ prepared, feeding must stuff) which has been artificially give to the a purchaser an invoice stating the name of the article, and whether it has been prepared from one substance or seed or from more than one substance or seed, and in the case of any article artificially prepared otherwise than by being mixed, broken, ground, or chopped, what are the respective percentages (if any) of oil and albuminoids contained in the article. Such invoice has effect as a warranty by the seller as to the facts so stated, except that as respects percentages the •
but such an act is not an offence (g) Daniel Y. Janes {1817), 2 0. P. D. 351 under the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 41. (A) Poisoned Grain Prohibition Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 113), s. 2.
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(k)
Ibid., Ibid.,
s.
3.
s. 4,
(l) Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 27), ss. 1 (1), 10 (2). This Act repeals the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 56). (m) The limits are set out in detail in the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (Limits of Error) Eegulations, 1906, which give the following example of their application In the case of a bone compound, if the percentages stated in the invoice are soluble phosphates, 20 insoluble phosphates, 8 nitrogen, 1 then the warranty implied under sect. 1 (1) of the Act will be that the fertiliser contains soluble phosphates, 19 to 21 per cent. insoluble phosphates, 7 to 9 per cent. nitrogen, '7 to 1*3 per cent.
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