Every distributor or common carrier who shall sell, offer for sale, or transport in this State any agricultural liming materials without being properly branded or having attached thereto such labels and tags as required by law or any distributor who shall receive any such agricultural liming material may be required to forfeit to the State a sum not to exceed the selling price of each separate package sold, offered for sale, or received, to be recovered by suit brought in the name of the State in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such forfeitures when collected shall be paid to the State Treasurer who shall hold them subject to the order of the commission. Provided, that the penalty defined in this section shall apply also to any misbranded agricultural liming material, an agricultural liming material being deemed to be misbranded if it carries any false or misleading statement upon or attached to the package.