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Penalty for violation. 



§ 5. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act 

 shall forfeit and pay to the people of the state of New York the 

 sum of one hundred dollars for every such violation. 



Evidence, official. 



§ 6. Every certificate duly signed and acknowledged of a chem- 

 ist or other expert employed by the director of the ISTew York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Geneva relating to the analysis 

 of any commercial fertilizer, or material to be used as a fertilizer, 

 shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated. 



Prima facie evidence. 



§ 7. The doing of anything prohibited by this act shall be evi- 

 dence of the violation of the provisions of this act relating to the 

 thing's so prohibited and the omission to do anything directed to 

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

 act relative to the things so directed to be done. 



Director responsible for enforcement of provisions of act; prosecutions 

 to be brought by attorney-general. 



§ 8. The director of the New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Geneva is charged with the enforcement of the pro- 

 visions of this act, and for this purpose, may employ agents, chem- 

 ists and experts, and whenever he shall know or have reason to 

 believe that any penalty has been incurred by any person for the 

 violation of any of the provisions of this act, or that any sum has 

 been forfeited by reason of any such violation, he shall report the 

 said violation with a statement of the facts to the attorney-general, 

 who pursuant to the provisions of chapter eight hundred and 

 twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five may 

 cause an action or proceeding to be brought in the name of the 

 people for the recovery of the same. 



