10 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ence, but the statutes and laws under which they existed and 

 all laws prescribing their duties, powers, purposes and responsi- 

 bilities and jurisdiction together with all lawful rules and 

 regulations established thereunder, are hereby expressly con- 

 tinued in force. The department of agriculture shall also 

 succeed to and be in control of all records, books, papers, offices, 

 equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and 

 other property, real or personal, now or hereafter held for 

 the benefit or use of said bodies, offices and officers. 

 eXced be ^ EC * ^' ^ IQ Director of the department of agriculture is 

 hereby vested with the power and is charged with the duty of 

 administering and enforcing the following laws : 

 N An act to regulate the sale of commercial fertilizers or 

 materials used for manurial purposes, and to provide penalties 

 for the infractions thereof, and means for the enforcement of 

 the act, approved March 20, 1903, and all acts amending or 

 supplementing said act. 



An act to prevent the propagation by the production of 

 seed of that certain plant known as Sorghum halepense, other- 

 wise known as Johnson grass, approved March 20, -1903, and 

 all acts amending or supplementing said act. 



An act to regulate the manufacture, sale, adulteration and 

 misbranding of insecticides or fungicides or materials used 

 for insecticidal or fungicidal purposes and to provide penal- 

 ties for the infraction thereof and to appropriate money there- 

 for, approved May 1, 1911, and all acts amending or supple- 

 menting said act. 



An act to regulate the production of certified milk, cream, 

 ice cream, butter and cheese; and repealing an act entitled 

 "An act to regulate the production of certified milk," 

 approved March 18, 1909, and all acts and parts of acts incon- 

 sistent with this act, approved April 25, 1913, and all acts 

 amending or supplementing said act. 



An act prohibiting the destruction of foodstuffs, food prod- 

 ucts or food articles, approved June 5, 1913, and all acts 

 amending or supplementing said act. 



Powers^ Whenever in any of the statutes enumerated in this section 



director!" or in any of the statutes amending or supplementing the same, 

 a duty or jurisdiction is imposed 'or authority conferred upon 

 any state board, commission, office or officer to administer the 

 provisions of any of said statutes, such duty, jurisdiction and 

 authority are hereby imposed upon and transferred to the di- 

 rector of the department of agriculture and the officers thereof 

 with the same force and effect as if the name of the director of 

 the department of agriculture occurred in the statute in each 

 instance in lieu of the name of any board, commission, office 

 or officer, or in lieu of the name of any member, deputy, 

 assistant or employee thereof, as the case may be. 



Authority SEC. 10. From and after the date upon which this act 

 money" takes effect, the director shall be and is hereby authorized and 

 hand. empowered to expend the moneys in any appropriation or in 



