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sions of this act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, 

 agent, or other person acting for or employed by any corpora- 

 tion, company, society, or association, within the scope of hi-3 

 employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be 

 the act, omission, or failure of such corporation, company, 

 society, or association as well as that of the person. 



Section 13. There shall be appropriated from the state 

 treasury the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the year nine- 

 teen hundred thirteen and the sum of fifteen hundred dollars 

 for the year nineteen hundred fourteen for the purpose of car- 

 rying out the provisions of this act. So much of said appro- 

 priations shall be paid by the state treasurer to the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture as may be shown by his bills and vouchers 

 of expenditures in performing the duties required by this act. 



Section 14. The commissioner of agriculture shall diligently 

 enforce all of the provisions of this act, and, in this connection, 

 he shall be entitled to have and receive the advice, counsel and 

 assistance of the attorney general and of the attorney for the 

 state in the several counties. 



The said commissioner of agriculture in his discretion may 

 recover the penalties for the violation of the provisions of this 

 act in an action on the case in his own name, the venue to be 

 as in other civil actions, and the plaintifif prevailing in any such 

 action shall recover full costs ; or he may prosecute violators by 

 complaint or indictment in the name of the state, and such 

 prosecution shall be commenced in the county in which the 

 ofifense was committed. All fines received under this act by 

 county treasurers shall be paid by them to the state treasurer. 



Trial justices and municipal and police courts are hereby 

 invested with original jurisdiction, concurrent with the supreme 

 judicial and superior courts, to hear, determine, enter, and by 

 appropriate process enforce judgment in actions commenced 

 for the recovery of the penalties aforesaid, and to try, and 

 upon conviction, to punish, for offenses against the provisio is 

 of this act. 



Section 15. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, 

 are hereby repealed. 



Approved April i, 1913. 



