8 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Traveling SEC. 4. All heads of divisions, assistants, agents, experts 



expenses. ail( ^ other employees of the department shall be entitled to 

 receive in addition to their salaries, their actual necessary 

 traveling expenses when away from their headquarters on state 

 business. The salaries and expenses of all heads of divisions, 

 assistants, agents, experts and other employees of the depart- 

 ment shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner 

 as the salaries and expenses of other state officers are paid. 

 Powers and SEC. 5. The director of agriculture may make investigations 

 director' an( ^ prosecute actions concerning all matters relating to the 

 business activities and subjects under the jurisdiction of the 

 department as well as relating to the acts and the statistics 

 referred to in section nine of this act. In connection there- 

 with he shall have the right to inspect books and records and 

 to hear complaints, administer oaths, certify to all official acts, 

 and to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the 

 production of papers, books, accounts, documents and testi- 

 mony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceeding 

 pertinent or material thereto in any part of the state. 

 -' I& th^evejit of the failure or the refusal of any witness to 

 attend or testify, or produce such papers, books, accounts or 

 '3oiimpp.ts;or' r givfe such testimony or in the event of any dis- 

 ' oVeciience ' of s'ai r d subpoena, the superior court in and for the 

 county, or city and county, in which any inquiry, investigation 

 or proceeding may be held by the director of agriculture, shall 

 have power to compel the attendance of said witness, the giving 

 of said testimony and the production of said papers, including 

 books, accounts and documents, as required by any subpoena 

 issued by the director of agriculture. The court upon petition 

 of the director of agriculture shall enter an order directing the 

 witness to appear before the court at a time and place to be 

 fixed by the court in such order, the time to be not more than 

 ten days from the date of the order, and then and there 

 show cause why he had not attended and testified or produced 

 said papers before the director of agriculture. A copy of said 

 order shall be served upon said witness. If it shall appear to 

 the court that said subpoena was regularly issued by the director 

 of agriculture, the court shall thereupon enter an order that 

 the said witness appear before the director of agriculture at a 

 time and place to be fixed in such order, and testify or produce 

 the required papers, and upon failure to obey said order, said 

 witness shall be dealt with as for contempt of court. 



The powers conferred upon the director of agriculture by 

 the provisions of this section may be exercised with like force 

 and effect by such officers of the department as the director 

 may authorize and designate to conduct any such investigation 

 or hearing; provided, however, that except in his report to the 

 director, or when called upon to testify in any court or pro- 

 ceeding at law, any such officer who shall divulge any informa- 

 tion acquired by him from the private books, documents or 

 papers of any person, while acting or claiming to act under 



