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Penalty for violation. 
§ 5. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act 
shall forfeit and pay to the people of the state of New York the 
sum of one hundred dollars for every such violation. 
Evidence, official. 
§ 6. Every certificate duly signed and acknowledged of a chem- 
ist or other expert employed by the director of the New York Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station at Geneva relating to the analysis 
of any commercial fertilizer, or material to be used as a fertilizer, 
shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated. 
Prima facie evidence. 
§ 7. The doing of anything prohibited by this act shall be evi- 
dence of the violation of the provisions of this act relating to the 
things so prohibited and the omission to do anything directed to 
be done shall be evidence of a violation of the provisions of this 
act relative to the things so directed to be done. 
Director responsible for enforcement of provisions of act; prosecutions 
. to be brought by attorney-general. 
§ 8. The director of the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva is charged with the enforcement of the pro- 
visions of this act, and for this purpose, may employ agents, chem- 
ists and experts, and whenever he shall know or have reason to 
believe that any penalty has been incurred by any person for the 
violation of any of the provisions of this act, or that any sum has 
been forfeited by reason of any such violation, he shall report the 
said violation with a statement of the facts to the attorney-general, 
who pursuant to the provisions of chapter eight hundred and 
twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five may 
cause an action or proceeding to be brought in the name of the 
people for the recovery of the same. 
