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paid shall be determined by the commissioner of agriculture in 

 this state, with whom all claimants shall, from time to time, file 

 verified statements showing the quantity and quality of sugar 

 manufactured by them, the price paid the producer for beets and 

 upon which said money is claimed. The said commissioner shall, 

 without uunecessary delay, visit or cause to be visited by such per- 

 sons as he shall designate in writing, the factory where said sugar 

 has been produced or manufactured, and take such evidence by 

 the sworn testimony of the officers or employes of such factory or 

 others, as to the amount and quality of sugar so manufactured, 

 and the price paid for beets as to him or the person so designated 

 by him shall appear satisfactory and conclusive. The sugar so 

 manufactured shall be placed by the manufacturer in original 

 packages, which shall be examined and branded by the said com- 

 missioner or person by him designated, with a suitable brand, 

 showing the quantity and the quality of sugar contained in each 

 of said packages, of which an accurate account shall be kept by 

 said inspector, and filed in the office of the commissioner of agri- 

 culture of this state. 



§ 74. Inspectors, to be appointed by commissioner. — It shall 

 be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to appoint a 

 resident inspector in each town or city where one or more manu- 

 factories of sugar may be located in this state, the aggregate out- 

 put of which factories shall exceed two thousand pounds of sugar 

 per day, and such examiner shall make such examinations, take 

 such evidence and make such records and reports as is specified 

 in section two of this act. The compensation or fee for such ser- 

 vice of said inspector shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five cents 

 for each package so branded, nor the sum of five dollars per day for 

 any one day's service, and such resident inspector shall be required 

 to give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of not less than two 

 thousand dollars to the state of New York, contingent on the faith- 

 ful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the said 

 eommissioner of agriculture. Said fees or compensation, together 

 with the cost of said brand and any and all analysis that the said 



