INSECTICIDE ACT OF 1910. 263 



labor on n:oods which are refused admission or delivery shall be paid 

 by the owner or consicrnee, and in default of such payment shall con- 

 stitute a lien against any future importation made by such owner 

 or consignee. 



Act April 26. 1910. c. 191, s. 11, 36 Stat. 334. 



Term " Territory " in act to include Alaska and insular possessions; construction 

 of word "person" as used in act; liability of corporations, etc., for acts, 

 omissions, etc., of officers, agents, employees, etc. 



Sec. 12. That the term "Territory," as used in this Act, shall 

 include the District of Alaska and the insular possessions of the 

 United States. The word " person," as used in this Act, shall be con- 

 strued to import both the plural and the singular, as the case de- 

 mands, and shall include corporations, companies, societies, and 

 associations. "When construing and enforcing the provisions of this 

 Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person 

 acting for or employed b}^ any corporation, company, society, or 

 association, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in 

 every case be also deemed to be the act. omission, or failure of such 

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

 other person. 



Act April 26, 1910, c 191, s. 12, 36 Stat. 335. 

 Title of act. 



Sec. 13. That this Act shall be known and referred to as " The 

 insecticide Act of 1910." 



Act April 26. 1910, c. 191, s. 13, 36 Stat. 335. 



Time of taking effect of act. 



Sec. 14. That this Act .shall be in force and effect from and after 

 the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven. 



Act April 26, 1910, c. 191, s. 14, 36 Stat. 335. 



Appropriations for carrying into effect the provisions of tills act are 

 made in tlie agricultnral appropriation act for the fi.scal year 1913 and the 

 preceding fiscal year. The provision of the act for the fiscal year 1913 is 

 set forth below. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Enforcement of the insecticide Act: To enable the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of April 

 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act for pre- 

 venting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or 

 misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and 

 also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other pur- 

 poses," in the city of Washington and elsewhere, including chemical 

 apparatus, chemicals, and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric 

 current, official traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, 

 express and freight charges, and all other expenses, emplojnng such 

 assistants, clerks, and other persons as may be considered necessary 

 for the purposes named, eighty-seven thousand dollars. 



Act August 10. 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 300. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above, under the heading " Miscellaneous." A similar 

 provision was contained in tlie similar act for the fiscal year 1912. 



