8 Third Annual Report of the 



Seventh Division. — J. M. Robinson, Springwater, N. Y., com- 

 prising the following counties: Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, 

 Schuyler, Steuben, Wyoming. 



Eighth Division. — John H. Foley, 354 Plymouth avenue, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., comprising the following counties: Cayuga, Monroe, 

 Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Yates. 



Ninth Division. — George J. Zillig, 333 Main street, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., comprising the following counties: Erie, Niagara, Orleans. 



Tenth Division. — J. P. Clark, Falconer, N. Y., comprising the 

 following counties: Allegany^ Cattaraugus, Chautauqua. 



The work of the Department in brief is under the provisions of 

 chapter 338 of the Laws of 1895, as amended, to enforce the pro- 

 visions of that act relative to milk, oleomargarine, vinegar, cheese, 

 cheese branding, diseases of domestic animals (except tuberculosis 

 and glanders), prevention of disease among bees, prevention of dis- 

 ease among fruit trees, distribution of moneys to the agricultural 

 societies of the State, and to exercise general supervision over 

 the work of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Geneva, the Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell Univer- 

 sity and the State Weather Bureau at Cornell University. The 

 prosecution of cases made by this Department has been placed by 

 legislative enactment in the hands of the Attorney-General by the 

 provision of chapter 821 of the Laws of 1895, of which the following 



is a copy: 



CHAPTER 821. 



AN ACT to amend the executive law, relating to the duties and 

 powers of the attorney-general. 



Became a law May 29, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three- 



fiftha beiug pieseut. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Subdivisions one and two of section fifty-two of the 

 executive law, is hereby amended to read as follows: 



1. Prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in which 

 the State is interested, and have charge and control of all the 

 legal business of the departments and bureaus of the State, or 

 of any office thereof which requires the services of attorney or 

 counsel, in order to protect the interests of the State, but this sec- 



