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that might be carried in such product. At the present time the 

 municipalities in this state, or certain of them, are endeavoring 

 to exercise such control or surveillance outside the city limits and 

 their right so to do is being questioned in the courts. If your 

 honorable body should confer the necessary powers upon the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture to do this work and provide him with 

 means adequate for that purpose, there could probably be no ques- 

 tion as to the constitutionalitv of such an act and it would clear 

 the atmosphere of the differences of opinion now existing as to 

 the exercise of such power by the municipalities. 



CLERICAL ERROR 



I would also recommend to your honorable body that the Agri- 

 cultural Law be amended to eliminate a clerical error in an amend- 

 ment that was made to the law lasl winter, namely, chapter 588 

 of the Laws of 1909 added a new section to the Agricultural Law 

 relative to tuberculin, issuing certificates relative to tuberculin 

 tested cattle and branding of tuberculous animals, which was num- 

 bered section <>4-a. It should have been section 94-a and I would 

 recommend that it be amended so as to become section 94-a of 

 article 5 of the Agricultural Law. 



R. A. Pearson, 

 C ommissioner of Agriculture. 



