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§ 5. Every person, firm or corporation, violating any of the pro- | 
visions of this act, shall upon conviction thereof, for the first offense 
be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two ~ 
hundred dollars, and for the second offense by double the amount in 
the discretion of the court; such fines to be paid to the officer whose 
dnty it is to enforce the provisions of this act, to be used by him for 
that purpose, and to be accounted for to the comptroller. 
§ 6. The director of the New York «State Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva, is charged with the enforcement of the provisions — 
_of this act, and shall prosecute in the name of the people, for violations 
thereof; and for that purpose he may employ agents, counsel, chem- 
ists and experts, and the court of special sessions shall have concur- 
rent jurisdicticn to hear and determine charges for violating the pro- 
visions of this act committed in their respective counties, subject to 
the power of removal provided in chapter one of title six, of the Code 
of Criminal Procedure. 
§ 7. And the said director of the New York State Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Geneva or his duly authorized agents, 
shall have full access, egress and ingress to all places of business, 
factories, buildings, cars, vessels, or other places where any 
manufactured fertilizer is sold, offered for sale, or manufactured. 
Such director shall also have power to open any package, barrel, or 
other thing containing manufactured fertilizer, and may take there- 
from sufficient samples; and whenever any such fertilizer is so taken 
for samples, it may be divided into different portions and one or more 
portions sealed in such a way that it cannot be opened without upon 
examination giving evidence of having been opened to the person 
sealing the same, and delivered to the person from who said sampleis 
taken, or any other person that may be agreed upon, by the said — 
director or his agents who takes the same and the person from whom 
it is taken, which portions so delivered may, upon the consent of the 
parties, be delivered to a chemist for the purpose of being “ie 
other than the chemist employed by said director. 
§ 8. The sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used by said director of 
the New: York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, as 
shall be authorized by the board of control thereof, in enforcing the 
provisions of this act. Said sum shall be paid to said director by the 
treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller, upon vouchers to be 
approved by the comptroller, in such sums and at such times as said 
