Art. 2.] General. Provisions 1881 



comptroller. The trustees of public buildings shall furnish suit- 

 able rooms for the use of the department. (As amended by chap- 

 ter 345 of the Laws o/ 1913.) 



§ 3. Power of commissioner, his deputies and employees. The 

 commissioner of agriculture, his deputies, clerks, experts, chemists, ™'i/''*'®^' 

 agents and counsel employed bv him, shall have full access to all '^p'^'^'^'""- 

 places of business, factories, farms, buildings, carriages, cars and 

 vessels used in the manufacture, sale or transportation within the 

 state of any dairy products or any imitation thereof, or of any 

 article or product with respect to which any authority is conferred opening 



1 -L .' t/ cans and 



by this chapter on such commissioner. They may examine and^^^^®'^- 

 open any package, can or vessel containing or believed to contain 

 any article or product, which may be manufactured, sold or exposed 

 for sale in violation of the provisions of this chapter, and may 

 inspect the contents therein, and take therefrom samples for ^"'"^^^^ 

 analysis. The commissioner of agriculture shall have the power p°^°^' 

 by subpoena or subpoena duces tecum, issued and attested by him 

 in his official capacity to require the attendance and testimony 

 before him, or any of his deputy commissioners or other persons 

 designated by him for that j)urpose, of any person whom he may 

 have reason to believe has knowledge of any alleged violation of 

 this chapter, and the production, before him or any of his deputy 

 commissioners of agriculture of any records, books, papers and 

 documents for the purpose of investigating any alleged violation 

 of this chapter. Such subpoena or subpoena duces tecum may be Excuse, 

 served by any person over the age of twenty-one years. No person 

 shall be excused from attending and testifying or producing any 

 records, books, papers or other documents before said commissioner 

 of agriculture or any of his deputy commissioners of agriculture 

 or other person designated by him for that purpose upon such in- Testimony. 

 vestigation upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or 

 evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to 

 convict him of a crime or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, 

 l)ut no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or 

 forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing use of 



testimony 



concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, doc-^gamst 

 umentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced 



■witness. 



