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the commissioner of agriculture, receive from the said commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, a certificate stating that he has complied with 

 the foregoing statement, which certificate shall be furnished with- 

 out any charge therefor; said certificate when furnished shall au- 

 thorize the party receiving the same to deal in this state in Paris 

 green. Any person who fails to file the statement aforesaid shall 

 not be entitled to such certificate and shall not be entitled to deal 

 in Paris green within this state; nothing in this section shall be 

 construed as applying to retail dealers. 



§ 112. Composition of Paris green or analogous products. — 

 Paris green, or any product analogous to it, when sold, offered or 

 exposed for sale, as such, in this state, shall contain at least fifty 

 per centum of arsenious oxide. 



§ 113. Paris green to be analyzed at experiment station. — The 

 director of the I^ew York state agricultural experiment station, 

 at Geneva, shall, under the direction of the commissioner of agri- 

 culture, examine, or cause to be examined, the different brands 

 of Paris green, sold, offered or exposed for sale, within the state, 

 and cause samples of the same to be analyzed, and shall report the 

 result of the analysis forthwith to the commissioner of agriculture. 



§ 114. Penalty for violations. — Any person or persons, firm, 

 association, company or corporation violating any of the provis- 

 ions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 

 fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dol- 

 lars; and in addition thereto shall forfeit and pay unto the people 

 of the state of New York the sum of one hundred dollars, together 

 with the costs of the suit in an action caused to be brought by 

 the commissioner of agriculture in the name of the people of the 

 state of 'New York, as provided by section eight of the agricul- 

 tural law. 



§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



List of Parties Who Have Received Paris Green Certificates. 



No. 1. June 21, 1898, F. W. Devoe & C. T. Reynolds Co., cor. Fulton ana 

 William streets, N. Y. city. 



