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unless an explicit printed statement of the fact shall be con- 

 spicuously aflQxed to every package of such fertilizer, and shall 

 accompany every parcel or lot of the same. 



Section 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. 



Section 6. Every, certificate, duly signed and acknowledged, 

 of a chemist or other expert employed by the director of the New 

 York Agricultural 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. 



Section 7. The doing of anything prohibited by this act shall 

 be evidence of the violation of the provisions of this act relating 

 to the thing so prohibited and the omission to do anything 

 directed to be done shall be evidence of a violation of the pro- 

 visions of this act relative to the things so directed to be done. 



Section 8. The director of the New York Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Geneva is charged with the enforcement of the 

 provisions of this act, and for this purpose, may employ agents, 

 chemists and experts, and v/henever he shall know or have rea- 

 son 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, i3ursuant 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. 



Section 9. Chapter four hundred and thirty-seven of the laws 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety and chapter six hundred and 

 one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four are hereby 

 repealed. 



Section 10. This act shall take effect immediately. 



While the provisions of the law are clearly and simi)ly stated, 

 we wish to make some added statements to anticipate inquiries 

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