Sections of the agricultural law of the state of New York as amended by the laws of 1910

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STATE OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

RAYMOND A. PEARSON, Commissioner

Bulletin No. 19

SECTIONS OF

The Agricultural Law

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK
As Amended by the Laws of 1910

ALBANY '
J. B. LVON COMPANY, PRINTERS
1910

LIST SHOWING ARTICLES AND SECTIONS OF THE AGRICUL*

TURAL LAW, CHAPTER i OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS,

WHICH WERE AMENDED BY THE LAWS OF 1910

Ain ICLE.

Section.

Act amending

— — 1

In effect.

II

4

1910
Chapter 112

1910
April 20
June 8

12 (new)

30

Chapter 434

Ill

Chapter 341

May 21
May 5
M.y 5

April 23
June 8

31

Chapter 216

<I8'

Chapter 207

IV

73

Chapter 156

V

96

Chapter 437 ...

99

Chapter 670

Ju'ie 25

106 ...

Chapter 561

June 21

VII

160

Chapter 436

June 8

IX

220

Chapter 435

June 8

221

Chapttu- 436

June 8

222

Chapter 435

June 8

223

Chapter 435

June 8

224.

Chapter 435 . . . .

June 8

XIII

291 -

293.

Chapter 366

May 26
May 26

Chapter 366

SUBJECTS OF SECTIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAW
AMENDED BY THE LAWS OF 1910

Article 2, section 4 Expert butter and cheese makers.

Article 2, section 12 Examination of foods in State ijjstitutions.

Article 3, section 30 Definitions.

Article 3, section 31 Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of

the produce from such cows.

Article 3, section 48 Manufacturer's brand of cheese.

Article 4, section 73 Adulterated vinegar; facts published.

Article 5, section 96 Regulations in relation to diseases of domestic

animals, the enforcement thereof and ex-
penses incurred by sheriff.

Article 5, section 99 Appraisal of diseased animals.

Article 5, section 106 Shipping, slaughtering and selling veal for food;

penalties for violation.

Article 7, section 160 Term " concentrated commercial feeding stuffs "

defined.

Article 9, sections 220-224 Sale and analysis of commercial fertilizers.

Article 13, sections 291, 293 State Fair Commisbion.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE AGRICULTURAL LAW

1910

. ARTICLE 2

General Provisions

Section 4. Expert butter and cheese makers. — The commissioner
of agriculture may appoint and employ expert butter and cheese
makers, who shall, under his direction, examine and inspect butter
and cheese factories and attend at agricultural fairs, societies and
meetings designated by the commissioner, to impart thereat infor-
mation as to the best acd most improved method of making butter
and cheese and improving the quality thereof. (As amended hy
chapter 112 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 12. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby empowered and
authorized to examine or cause to be examined food or food prod-
ucts produced or secured for use in the state institutions — milk
monthly ; other foods semi-annually — and to make or cause to be
made such other examinations as he may deem wise or as the facts
seem to neeessitate and warrant relative to such
Foods in state in- food products and relative to the agricultural
stitutions; exam- methods at such institutions, and report the
ination of. results of such examinations and make recom-
mendations thereupon to the fiscal supervisor
or to the superintendent of prisons or to the commission in lunacy
for their respective departments or ofiices. For the purpose of
assisting the commissioner of agriculture in the performance of
duties authorized by this section, the fiscal supervisor and the
superintendent of prisons and the state commission in lunacy shall
secure and transmit to the commissioner of agriculture such avail-
able appropriate information and render such other assistance a3
the commissioner of agriculture may call for. (As added hy chap-
ter 434 of the Laws of 1910.)

ARTICLE 3
Dairy Products

Section 30. Definitions.— The terms "butter" and "cheese,'*
when used in this article, mean the products of the dairy, usually
known by those terms, which are manufactured exclusively from
pure unadulterated milk or cream or both, with or without salt or

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rciiuct, and with or without coloring matter or sage. The terms
^' oleomargarine/' " butterine/' " imitation butter " or " imitation
cheese" shall be construed to mean any article or substance in the
semblance of butter or cheese not the usual product of the dairy,
and not made exclusively of pure and unadulterated milk or cream,
or any such article or substance into which any oil, lard or fat not
produced from milk or cream enters as a component part, or into
which melted butter or butter in any condition or state, or any

oil thereof has been introduced to take the place
Adulterated milk, of cream. The term, " adulterated milk," when

so used, means :

1. Milk containing more than eighty-eight per centum of water
or fluids.

2. Milk containing less than eleven and one-half per centum of
milk solids.

3. Milk containing less than three per centum of fats.

4. Milk drawn from cows within fifteen days before and five
days after parturition.

5. Milk drawn from animals fed on distillery waste or any sub-
stance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction or on any un-
healthy food.

6. Milk drawn from cows kept in a crowded or unhealthy con-
dition.

7. Milk from which any part of the cream has been""removed.

8. Milk which has been diluted with water or any other fluid,
or to which has been added or into which has been introduced any
foreign substance whatever.

All adulterated milk shall be deemed unclean, unhealthy, im-
pure and unwholesome. The terms ''pure milk" or ^^unadulter-
ated milk," when used singly or together mean sweet milk not
adulterated, and the terms, " pure cream " or " unadulterated
cream," when used singly or together mean cream taken from
pure and unadulterated milk. The term
Adulterated " adulterated cream " when used shall moan
cream. cream containing less than eighteen per centum

of milk fat or cream to which any substance
whatsoever has been added. (As amended by chapter 341 of the
Laws of 1910.)

§ 31. Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of the prod-
uce from such cows. — ISTo person shall keep cows, for the produc-
tion of milk for market or for sale or exchange, or for manufaq-

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turing the milk or cream from the same into any article of food, in
a crowded or unhealthy condition or in unhealthful or unsanitary
surroundings and no person shall keep such cows or the product
therefrom in such condition or surroundings or in such places as
shall cause or tend to cause the produce from such cows to be in
an unclean, unhealthful or diseased condition, if the produce from
such cows is to be sold, offered or exposed for sale upon the
markets for consumption or to be manufactured into any food
product, nor shall such cows or the produce therefrom be handled
or cared for by any person suffering with or affected by an infec-
tious or contagious disease, nor shall any such cows be fed on any
substance that is in a state of putrefaction or fermentation, or
upon any food that is unhealthful or that produces or may produce
impure, unhealthful, diseased or unwholesome
Ensilage. milk. But this section shall not be construed

to prohibit the feeding of ensilage. The com-
missioner of agriculture is hereby empowered to give such instruc-
tion and impart such information as in his
Instruction. judgment m^ay be deemed best to produce a
full observance of the provisions of this section.
(As amended hy chapter 216 0/ the Laws of 1910.)

§ 48. Manufacturer's brand of cheese. — Every manufacturer
of Avhole-milk cheese may put a brand or label upon such cheese
indicating "whole-milk cheese" and the date of the month and
year when made; and no person shall use such a brand or label
upon any cheese made from milk from which any of the cream has
been taken. The commissioner of agriculture shall procure and
issue to the cheese manufactiyers of the state.
Issue of brand, on proper application therefor, and under such
regulations as to the custody and use thereof as
he may proscribe, a uniform stencil brand or labels bearing a
suitable device or motto, and the words, " l^ew York state whole-
milk cheese." Every such brand or label shall be used upon the
outside of the cheese and shall bear a different
Use of brand. number for each separate factory. The com-
missioner shall keep a book, in which shall be
registered the name, location and number of each manufactory
using the brands or labels, and the name or names of the persons
at each manufactory authorized to use the same. ]S"o such brands
or labels shall be used upon any olhtr than. whole-milk cheese or!
packages containing the same. {As amended hy chapter 207 op
the Laws of 1910.)

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ARTICLE 4

Adulterated Vinegar

Section T3. Facts published. — The commissioner of agriculture
shall publish the name and business address of each person,^firm or
corporation convicted of a violation of this article, with such state-
ment of the facts of the violation as he may deem proper. (As
amended by chapter 156 0/ the Laws of 1910.)

ARTICLE 5

Diseases of Domestic Animals

Section 96. Regulations, the enforcement thereof and expenses
incurred by sheriff. — The commissioner may prescribe such regu-
lations as in his judgment may be thought suited for the suppres-
sion or the prevention of the spread of any such
Regulations for disease, and for the disinfection of all premises,
suppression of buildings, railway cars, vessels, and other ob-
disease. jects from or by means of which infection or

contagion may take place or be conveyed. He
may alter or modify, from time to time, as he may deem expedient,
the terms of all notices, orders and regulations issued or made by
him, and may at any time cancel or withdraw the same. He may
call upon the sheriff, under sheriff or deputy sheriff, to carry out
and enforce the provisions of any notice, order
Sheriff to enforce, or regulation which he may make, and all such
* sheriffs, under sheriffs and deputy sheriffs shall
obey and observe all orders and instructions which they may re-
ceive from him in the premises. All expenses incurred by the
sheriff, under sheriff or a deputy sheriff in carrying out and
enforcing the provisions of such notice, order or regulation shall
be a county charge to be audited and paid in the same manner as
other charges by the sheriff, under sheriff, or deputy sheriff. If
the commissioner shall lay a quarantine upon a city or any por-
tion thereof he may call upon the commissioner
Police to enforce, of public safety and the police department of
said city to enforce the provisions of any notice,
order or regulation which he may make Avithin the quarantined
district or such portion thereof as lies within the city liiiiils, and
the commissioner of public safety and the police department shall

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obey and observe all such orders and instructions so made or
issued, and all expenses incurred by the commissioner of public
safety and the police department in enforcing the quarantine as
herein provided shall be a city charge. If the commissioner shall
quarantine any particular district or territory for the purpose of

stopping or preventing the spread of the disease

Dogs in violation known as rabies, and if any dog be found

of quarantine may within the said quarantine district in violation

be caught. of said quarantine or regulation, any person

may catch or cause to be caught such dog and
have him impounded or confined. If the said dog is thereafter not

found to be affected with the disease known as '
Release. rabies, it may be released to the owner upon '

payment of a penal sum of ten dollars to the
commissioner of agriculture, who shall upon receipt and accept-
ance of the same issue to the said owner a release which shall
entitle the said owner to the possession of said dog. If such
penalty is not paid within three days after said dog is impounded,
or if it is found impracticable after reasonable effort to catch

and impound such dog within the said quar-

Provisions for antine district in violation of said quarantine

killing. or regulation, or to find the owner of a dog so

impounded, then any pe^'son may kill or cause
to be killed such dog and shall not be held liable for damages for

such killing. For the purpose of enforcing the

Powers of provisions of this article the commissioner of

peace officers, agriculture, his appointees and employees shall

be consideped as peace officers and shall have all
the rights and powers of peace officers. (As amended by chapter
437 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 99. Appraisal of diseased animals. — An appraiser shall de-
termine the value of each animal directed to be slaughtered. Such

value shall be the market value of such animal
Value appraised, at the time of making the appraisement, but

the appraisal value of each bovine animal shall
not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, pro-
vided however that the appraised value shall not exceed" the sum
of seventy-five dollars, except for registered thoroughbred animals,
and the appraisal of each e<iuiiic animal shall not exceed the sum
of one hundred and twenty dollars. If the value of the con-

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demned animals determined by the appraiser is
Arbitration of not satisfactory to the owner of such animals,
value. the value shall be determined by arbitrators,

one to be appointed by the state appraiser and
one by the owner of the animals. If such arbitrators are not able
to agree as to the value of the animals, a third arbitrator shall be
appointed by them. The value determined by such arbitrator
shall not exceed the limits established by this
Payment of article and, after approval by the commissioner
arbitrators. of agriculture, shall be final. The arbitrators
selected by the owner of the animals shall be
paid by the said owner, the other arbitrator or arbitrators shall
be paid by the state at a rate of compensation not to exceed five
dollars per day and necessary expenses. Such appraiser of con-
demned animals and the arbitrators appointed under this section
may administer oaths to and examine witnesses. (As amended
by chapter 670 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 106. Shipping, slaughtering and selling veal for food. — l^o

person shall slaughter or expose for sale, or sell any calf or carcass
of the same or any part thereof, unless it is in good healthy con-
dition. 'No person shall sell or expose for sale
Calves, sale of. any such calf or carcass of the same or any
.part thereof, except the hide, unless it was, if
killed, at least four weeks of age at the time of killing. No per-
son or persons shall bring or cause to be brought into any city,
town or village any calf or carcass of the same or 'any pai't thereof
for the purpose of selling, offering or exposing the same for sale,
unless it is in a good healthy condition, and no person or persons
shall bring any such calf or carcass of the same or any part thereof
except the hide into any city, town or village for the purpose of
selling, offering or exposing the same for sale, unless the calf is
four weeks of age, or, if killed, was four weeks of age at the time
of killing, provided, however, that the provisions of this section
shall not apply to any calf or carcass of the same or any part
thereof, which is slaughtered, sold, offered or exposed for sale,
for any other purpose thian food. Any person or persons ex-
posing for sale, selling or shipping any calf or carcass of the same
will be presumed to be so exposing, selling or
Presumption; shipping the said calf or carcass of the same
method of for food. Any person or persons shipping "any
shipment. calf for the purpose of being raised, if the said

calf is under four weeks of age, shall ship it

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in a crate, unless said calf is accompanied by its dam. Any per-
son shipping calves under four weeks of age for fertilizer purposes
must slaughter the said calves before so shipping. Any person or

persons duly authorized by the commissioner of

Seizure of calves agriculture may examine any calf or veal of-

and veal. fered or exposed for sale or kept with any

stock of goods apparently exposed for sale, and
if such calf is under four weeks of age, or the veal is from a calf
killed under four weeks of age, or from a calf in an unhealthy
condition when killed, he may seize the same and cause it to be
destroyed and disposed of in such manner as to make it impos-
sible to ''be thereafter used for food. The penalties and fines pro-
vided in section fifty-two of the agricultural law shall apply to
violations of this section except that the minimum penalty for
violations of this section shall be, for the first violation, one dollar
for each calf, and, for the second violation, ten dollars for each
calf, and the minimum fine for first offense shall be one dollar
and for second offense ten dollars. (As amended hy chapter 561
of the Laws 0/ 1910.)

ARTICLE 7

Sale and Analysis of Concentrated Commercial Feeding Stuffs

Section 160. Term '' concentrated commercial feeding stuffs " de-
fined.— The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuffs" as
I used in this article, shall include linseed meals, cotton seed meals,
pea meals, bean meals, peanut meals, cocoanut meals, gluten
meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried
distiller's grains, dried brewer's grains, malt sprouts, hominy
feeds, ceraline feeds, rice meals, dried beet refuse, oat feeds, corn
and oat chops, corn and cob meal, ground beef or fish scraps, meat
meals, meat and bone meals mixed, dried blood, mixed feeds,
clover meals, alfalfa feeds and meals, compounded feeds, condimen-
tal stock and poultry foods, proprietary or trade-mark stock and
poultry foods, and all other materials of similar nature; but shall
not include hays and straws, the w^hole seeds nor the unmixed

meals made directly from the entire grains of
Exceptions. wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, buckwheat and

broom corn.^ ^Neither shall it include wheat,
rye and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed with other sub-
stances, but sold separately, as distinct articles of commerce, nor
pure grains ground together, nor corn meal and wheat bran mixed

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together, when sold as siicli by the manufacturer at retail, nor
wheat bran and middlings mixed together not mixed with any
other substances and known in the trade as ^^ mixed feed/' nor
ground or cracked bone not mixed with any other substance, nor
shall it inclu4e poultry foods consisting of whole or whole and
cracked grains and grit mixed together when all the ingredients
may be identified by the naked eye. (As amended hy chapter 43G
of the Laws of 1910.)

ARTICLE 9

Sale and Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers

Section 220. Statements to be attached to packages.

'221. Deficiency from guaranteed analysis, under certain
conditions, not to be considered violation.

222. Statement filed with commissioner of agriculture;

license fees.

223. Presence of inert nitrogenous matter to be stated.

224. Commissioner of agriculture to take samples for

analysis; analysis to be made by director of ex-
periment station.

§ 220. Statements to be attached to packages. — [N'o manu-
facturer, firm, association, corporation or person shall sell, offer or
expose for sale in this state any commercial fertilizer or any
material to be used as a fertilizer, the selling price of which ex-
ceeds five dollars per ton, unless such commercial fertilizer or
material to be used as a fertilizer shall be accompanied by or
shall have affixed to each and every package in a conspicuous place
on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement which shall
certify as follows :

1. The number of pounds in the package.

2. The name, brand or trade mark under which it is to be sold,
and in the case of agricultural lime its particular form.

3. The name and principal address of the manufacturer or per-
son responsible for the placing of the commodity upon the market.

4. The minimum per centum of each of the following con-
stituents which may be contained therein;

(a) Mtrogen.

(b) Available phosphoric acid, excej't lliat in cases of undis-
solved bone, basic slag phosphate, wood ashes, untreated phosphate

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roclv, garbage tankage and pulverized natural m ami res, the mini-
mum per centum of total phosphoric acid may be substituted
therefor.

(c) Potash soluble in distilled water.

(d) In the case of agricultural lime, the minimum per centum
of calcium oxide. If any commercial fertilizer or material to be
used as a fertilizer, the selling price of which exceeds five dollars
per ton, be sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk such printed
statement shall accompany every lot and parcel so sold, offered or
exposed for sale. That portion of the statement required by this
section, relating to the quality of commercial fertilizer or material
to be used as a fertilizer, shall be known and recognized as the
guaranteed analysis.

§ 221. Deficiency from guaranteed analysis, under certain con-
ditions, not to be considered as violations. — It shall be a violation
of the provisions of this article if the statement required by sec-
tion two hundred and twenty of this article shall
False statement be false in regard to the iTiimber of pounds of
fertilizer in the package sold, offered or exposed
for sale, or in the name, brand or trade mark under which the
fertilizer is sold, or in the name and address of the manufacturer
of the fertilizer. It shall also be a violation of the provisions of
this article if any commercial fertilizer or material to be used as
a fertilizer shall contain a smaller percentage of nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid, potash or calcium oxide than is certified in said state-
ment to be contained therein, when such deficiency shall be greater
than ten per centum of any one of such constituents unless there
be a monetary equivalent in excesses in other
Margin of guaranteed constituents as provided herein;
deficiency. provided such deficiency does not exceed twenty

per centum of such guarantee in any one con-
stituent. The basis of values of such constituents necessary In
making such computations shall be determined by the commis-
sioner of agriculture.

§ 222. Statement filed with commissioner of agriculture; license
fees. — Before any manufacturer, firm, association, corporation
or person shall sell, offer or expose for sale in this state any
commercial fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer, the
selling price of wliich exceeds five dollars per ton, he or they shall,

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for each and every brand of commercial fertilizer or material to
be used as a fertilizer, file annually, prior to
Filing^. January first of the calendar year, in which

such commodity is to be sold, offered or exposed
for sale, with the commissioner of agriculture a certified copy of
the statement prescribed in section two hundred and twenty of
this article. Every manufacturer, firm, association, coi^poration
or seller of any commercial fertilizer or material to be used as a
fertilizer the selling price of which exceeds five
Payment. dollars per ton, shall pay annually prior to

January first of the calendar year in which
such commodity is to be sold, offered or exposed for sale, to the
treasurer of the state of N'ew York a license fee of twenty dollars
for each and every brand to be sold or offered or exposed for
sale. Whenever a manufacturer, firm, association, corporation or
seller of any commercial fertilizer or material to be used as a
fertilizer, the selling price of which exceeds five dollars per ton,
desires at any time to sell such commercial fertilizer or such ma-
terial and has not c<5fmplied with the requirements of the statute,
he or they shall before selling, offering or exposing the same for
sale, comply with the requirements as herein provided. Said
treasurer shall in each case at once certify to the commissioner of
agriculture the payment of such license fee. Each manufacturer,
firm, association, corporation or seller who has complied with the
provisions of this article shall be entitled to
Certificate of receive a* certificate from the commissioner of
commissioner. agriculture setting forth said facts. Such cer-
tificate shall expire on the thirty-first day of
December of the calendar year for which it was issued. When-
ever a manufacturer, firm, association, corporation or person shall
have filed the statement and paid the license fee as prescribed in
this section, upon any given brand, no agent or seller of such
manufacturer, firm, association, corporation or person shal^ be
required to file such statement or pay such fee upon said brand.
Eor the purposes of this article, commercial fertilizers or materials
to be used as a fertilizer, shall be considered as distinct and sep-
arate brands when differing either in guaranteed analysis, name,
brand or trade mark or in any other method of marking.

§ 223. Presence of inert nitrogenous matter to be stated. — No

manufacturer, firm, association, corporation or person ^liall sell,
offer or expose for sale in this state leather or its products or

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other inert nitrogenous material in any form, as a commercial
fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer or as an ingre-
dient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit statement of the facts
shall be affixed to every package in a conspicuous place on the out-
side thereof and shall accompany every parcel or lot which may be
sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk.

§ 224. Commissioner of agriculture to take samples for analysis;
analysis to be made by director of experiment station. — The com-
missioner of agriculture shall at least once in each year trans-
mit to the IN'ew York agricultural experiment station for analysis
at least one sample, to be taken in the manner hereinafter pre-
scribed, of the different brands of commercial fertilizers and ma-
terials to be used as fertilizers the selling price of which exceed
five dollars per ton, which are or may be sold, offered or exposed
for sale under the provisions of this article. The said commis-
sioner of agriculture or his duly authorized rep-
Taking of sample, resentatives in taking samples shall take them
in triplicate in the presence of at least one wit-
ness and in the presence of such witness shall seal such sampler
and shall at the time of taking tender, and if accepted, deliver to
the person apparently in charge one of such samples, one of the
other samples the commissioner of agriculture shall cause to be
analyzed. When samples are taken from fertilizers in bags, a
tube shall be used and it shall be inserted at one end of the bag
and shall pass substantially the entire length of the bag, so as to
take a core of the material being sampled from substantially the
entire length of the bag. Samples thus taken from individual
bags shall be thoroughly mixed and the official samples be taken
from the mixture so drawn. Samples of fertilizer taken as herein
provided shall be taken from at least five per centum of the sepa-
rate original packages in the lot for the mixture from which the
official samples shall be taken. 'No action shall be maintained for
a violation of the provisions of this article based upon an analysis
of samples taken otherwise than as herein provided or taken from
less than five separate original packages. The director of said
experiment station shall continue to analyze or cause to be
analyzed such samples of commercial fertilizers and materials to
be used as fertilizers taken under the provisions of this article as
shall be submitted to him for that purpose by the commissioner of
agriculture and shall report such analysis to the commissioner of

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agriculture and for this purpose tlie New York agricultural ex-
periment station may continue to employ chemists and incur such
expenses as may be necessary to comply with the requirements of
this article. The result of the analysis of the sample or samples
so procured, together wdth such additional information as circum-
stances advise, shall be published in reports or bulletins from time
to time. (As amended hy chapter 435 of the Laws of 1910.)

ARTICLE 13

State Fair

Section 291. State fair commission. — The state fair commission
shall consist of seven members, of whom the lieutenant-governor
and the commissioner of agriculture shall ex officio constitute
two. The remaining five members of such cora-
Appointment. mission shall be appointed by the governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the senate
as hereinafter provided. The terms of the five appointive mem-
bers t»f such commission in office when this section as hereby
amended takes effect shall expire on June first, nineteen hundred
and ten. On or before June first, nineteen hundred and ten, the
governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
appoint five members of such commission to succeed those whose
terms expire as hereinabove provided, for terms of one, two, three,
four and five years, respectively, so that the term of one member
of such commission shall expire on June first of each year. A
successor to a member of such commission shall be appointed, in
like manner, annually for a full term of five years. The gov-
ernor shall designate one of the members of
Superintendent, such commission, who, in addition to his duties
as commissioner, shall act as superintendent of
the fair grounds and buildings for and during his term as com-
missioner, his acts as su(?h superintenelent to be under the direction
of the commission. Such member shall devote his entire time to
the duties of his office. The lieutenant-governor shall be the
presiding officer of the commission. The member of such com-
mission designated by the governor to have charge of the fair
grounds and buildings shall receive an annual
Salaries. salary of five thou&and five hundred dollars, the

other appointed members of the commission
shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars, and all
the members of such commission shall receive their actual and

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necessary expenses in the discharge of their official duties, to be
paid on the certificate of the commissioner of agriculture and the
audit and warrant of the comptroller. (As amended hy chapter
366 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 293. Assistants and employees. The state fair commission
may appoint such assistants and employees as they may deem
necessary. They may prescribe their duties and fix their com-
pensation. Such assistants and employees shall be subject to
removal at the pleasure of such commission. (As amended hy
chapter SQQ of the Laws of 1910.)

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