392 Ninth Annual Report of the 



the ensuing year. He may require the state agricultural society 

 and the county agricultural societies to make reports to him 

 and prescribe the form of such reports. 



§ 6. Certificate of chemist presumptive evidence. — Every certifi- 

 cate, duly signed and acknowledged, of a chemist, analyst or 

 other expert employed by the commissioner of agriculture or 

 any analysis, examination or investigation made by such 

 analyst, chemist or expert with respect to any matter or pro- 

 duct which the commissioner has authority to examine or cause 

 to be examined, shall be presumptive evidence of the facts 

 therein stated. 



People v. Kibler, 106 N. Y. 321. 

 People v. West, Id. 293. 

 People v. Schaeffer, 41 Hun, 23. 

 People v. Mahaney, Id. 26. 

 People v. Eddy, 12 N. Y. Supp. 628. 

 People v. Thompson, 14 Id. 839. 



§ 7. Evidence; principal's liability for act of agent. — The doing 

 of anything prohibited by this chapter shall be evidence of the 

 violation of the provisions of this chapter relating to the thing 

 so prohibited and the omission to do anything directed to be 

 done shall be evidence of a violation of the provisions of the 

 chapter relative to the thing so directed to be done. The intent 

 of any person doing or omitting to do any such act is immaterial 

 in any prosecution for a violation of the provisions of this 

 chapter. Any person who suffers, permits or allows any viola- 

 tion of the provisions of this chapter by his agent or servant, or 

 in any room or building occupied or controlled by him, shall be 

 deemed a principal in such violation and liable accordingly. 



Electric Power Co. v. Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph 

 Co., 75 Hun, 68; s. c, 75 State Rep. 57; 27 N. Y. Supp. 93. 



§ 8. Prosecution for penalties. — Whenever the commissioner of 

 agriculture shall know or have reason to believe that any pen- 

 alty has been incurred by any person for a violation of any of 



