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of his employment or office, shall in every ease be also 

 deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such corporation, 

 company, society or association as well as that of the person, 



"For the purposes of this act apples packed in closed 

 packages shall be deemed to be adulterated if their quality 

 or grade when packed or repacked does not conform to the 

 marks upon the package." 



"The words 'closed package' shall mean a box or barrel 

 or other package, the contents of which cannot be seen or in- 

 spected when such package is closed." 



Section 14. The Secretary State Board of Agriculture 

 shall diligently enfore all of the provisions of this Act, and. 

 in this connection, he shall be entitled to have and receive 

 the advice, counsel and assistance of the attorney general 

 and of the attorney for the State in the several counties. 



The said Secretary State Board of Agriculture in his dis- 

 cretion may recover the penalties for the violation of the 

 provisions of this Act in an action on the case of his own 

 name, the venue to be as in other civil actions, and the plain- 

 tiff prevailing in any such action shall recover full costs; or 

 he may prosecute violators by complaint or indictment in the 

 name of the State, an-d such prosecution shall be commenced 

 in the county in which the .offense was committed. All fines 

 received under this Act by county treasurers shall be paid by 

 them to the State Treasurer. 



Trial justices and municipal and police courts are here- 

 l)y invested with original jurisdiction, concurrent with the 

 supreme judicial and superior courts, to hear, determine, 

 enter and by approprite process enfore judgment in actions 

 commenced for the recovery of the penalties aforesaid, and 

 to try, and upon conviction, to punish for offenses under the 

 provisions of this Act." 



Now, I suppose very few of us realize the enormous loss 

 in this State owing to an over-estimate of the apple crop by 

 the United States rjovernment. The estimate was based on 

 the wildest kind of guess-work, about twice what we really 

 did have, to my mind. The fruit growers are the most in- 



