Part II.] AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION. 169 



follows: — -Section 6. When the certified copy of the tag or label of any 

 brand of commercial feeding stuff has been filed as provided by this act, 

 the director of the JMassachusetts agricultural experiment station, or his 

 authorized deputy, shall register such tag or label if he finds the same to 

 be in accordance with the requirements of this act, and shall issue, or cause 

 to be issued, a certificate of such registration, and the said certificate shall 

 he deemed to authorize the sale in this commonwealth, in compliance with 

 this act, of the brand of feeding stuff for which the certificate is issued, up 

 to and including the thirty-first day of December of the year for which it 

 is issued. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [A-piproved 

 March S, 1917. 



PART IV. — MISCELLANEOUS ACTS RELATING TO AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



PUBLIC DEFENSE ACT — FOOD ADMINISTRATION. 



General Acts, Chapter 342. 



Section 23. WTienever the governor, with the advice and consent of 

 the council, shall determine that an emergency has arisen in regard to the 

 cost, supply, production, or distribution of food or other necessaries of life 

 in this commonwealth, he may ascertain the amount of food, or other 

 necessaries of life within the commonwealth; the amount of land and 

 labor available for the production of food ; the means of producing within 

 or of obtaining without the commonwealth food or other necessaries of 

 life as the situation demands; and the facilities for the distribution of the 

 same, and may publish any data obtained relating to the cost or supply of 

 such food or other necessaries, and the means of producing or of obtaining 

 or distributing the same. In making the said investigation he may compel 

 the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, and may 

 examine the books and papers of individuals, firms, associations and cor- 

 porations producing or dealing in food or other necessaries of life, and he 

 may compel the co-operation of all offi.ccrs, boards, commissions and de- 

 partments of the commonwealth having information that may assist him 

 in making the said investigation. 



MUNICIPALITIES AUTHORIZED TO WORK LAND. 



General Acts, Chapter 264. 



An Act to authorize cities and towns to make certain emergency 

 appropriations in time of war. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Cities and towns are hereby authorized, during the con- 

 tinuance of the existing state of war between the United States and any 

 foreign country, to appropriate such sums of money as they may deem 



