until the expiration of the term for which he was appointed at an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars and shall give an official undertaking within ten days after this act takes effect in the sum of thirty thousand dollars with at least five sufficient sureties for the faithful performance of his duties to be approved by and filed in the office of the comptroller.

§ 6. Powers of the superintendent.-Such superintendent shall: 1. Have the possession, government and management of all lands, wood, timber, trees, buildings, erections, pumps and machinery of every kind, and of all water courses, conduits, wells, aqueducts, springs and other property belonging to the state on the Onondaga reservation, and the Montezuma salt springs.

2. Superintend and have charge of the salt springs and of the manufacture and inspection of salt and regulate and control the delivery of salt water to salt manufacturers.

3. Daily examine or cause to be examined the cisterns attached to the several manufactories in order to discover any leaks or waste of salt water therefrom or from the logs or conduits leading the water to them and to discover any leak or waste of salt water, either by negligence or design whether in the cisterns, logs or conduits or in the use of the water in any manufactory, or in letting the same into the cistern or in any other manner; and shall order the owner or other person occupying such manufactory or his agents or ser vants who may be present to immediately stop such leak or waste.

4. Cause any person wrongfully possessed of any land or property on the Onondaga reservation or the Montezuma salt springs to remove therefrom and take possession of the same and may sue in his name of office for the recovery of, damages for any injury to such lands or property according to the nature of such injury.

5. Keep in each of his offices regular books of entry in which all of his accounts and transactions shall be entered.

6. Provide suitable books of entry, blank books, blank inspection bills, returns, forms and other stationery for the use of himself and his deputies for the performance of their official duties.

7. Receive all moneys payable to the state for the duties, rents, fines or penalties specified in this chapter or arising from the salt springs or property of the state connected with the salt manufac tory.

8. Deposit each week to the credit of the state treasurer in such bank or banks as may be designated by the comptroller all moneys received by him as superintendent, and transmit every Monday

to the comptroller a statement showing the amount of the revenues collected, received and deposited during the preceding week.

9. Forward a statement to the comptroller on the first Monday in each month exhibiting the whole amount of revenue collected during the preceding month and the amount in each week, with a transcript of the receiver's books in each of the manufacturing districts.

10. Prosecute in the name of the state all persons who shall knowingly trespass upon or injure any of the lands or property belonging to the state who shall wilfully damage any of the machinery, erections, fixtures or other property of the state and for the recovery of all such sums forfeited to the state.

11. Make a report annually to the comptroller on September thirtieth or within ten days thereafter, stating the quantity of salt inspected during the previous year, the amount of revenues accruing thereon and from other sources, the expenditures made by the superintendent, and the amount which, in his judgment, will be necessary for the support of the salt springs for the ensuing year.

12. Make a report annually to the legislature on or before January fifteenth, of his doings during the preceding year, embracing such information in regard to the manufacture of salt and the situation of public work, and submitting such recommendations for their further improvement and extension as he shall deem necessary and proper. If the superintendent neglect to make the monthly return required by this section, or to make or transmit the certificate of such deposits to the comptroller, the comptroller shall order the superintendent in bonds to be put in suit for the recovery of any moneys which may be in his hands belonging to the state, and such neglect or omission of duty shall be deemed cause for the removal of such superintendent by the governor. § 7. Further powers and duties of superintendent. The superintendent may:

1. Administer oaths to his deputies, foreman and employes in regard to the return of check rolls and other matters relating to their duties when he shall deem it necessary.

2. Require the officers appointed by him to perform such duties and services in behalf of the state as he may consider appropriate and necessary and remove them or either of them from office.

3. Establish and from time to time alter the boundaries of the inspection districts so as to allow of the inspection of salt at the

offices most convenient to the officers in charge and to the owners of the salt works.

§ 8. Rules and regulations – The superintendent shall, annually, in the month of April, adopt rules and regulations for the guidance and direction of the salt manufacturers for the ensuing year, and may also, from time to time, establish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as he may deem expedient respecting:

1. The manufacture and inspection of salt and the collection of duties thereon.

2. The manner and order of receiving salt water from the state reservoirs and aqueducts, the mode of conducting it to the respective manufactories and the erections and securing it from waste and loss.

3. The examination of the several salt works and manufactories by his deputies to determine whether the provisions of the law are properly complied with.

4. The loading of salt in bulk, or otherwise, into boats to be transported upon the canals or the shipment of salt by railway, or otherwise, to be conveyed to market.

5. Such matters as shall tend to the more perfect execution of the provisions of this chapter, such rules and regulations shall take effect upon the expiration of one week from the time they are made and published, and shall be enforced until they are revoked or others are established in their stead.

§ 9. Penalties, rules and penalties to be posted. The superintendent may prescribe specific penalties not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense for any violation of the rules and regulations established by him and recover the same in the name of the state with costs, and shall stop all communication between any salt block or manufactory and the state reservoir, if the person in charge of such block or manufactory shall refuse to comply with the provisions of law or the rules and regulations of the superintendent so that no salt water shall come to such block or manufactory until such provisions are complied with. Such rules and regulations and the several penalties prescribed thereby and by law. shall be printed and posted conspicuously in the several offices of the superintendent, in all the fine salt manufactories and in the storehouses for coarse salt, and in the mills for grinding salt, and in such other places as shall be deemed expedient for the information of the public.

§ 10. Habitual neglect to comply with rules.-The superintendent shall suspend for such length of time as he may deem proper,

not exceeding three months at any one time, the right of any salt manufacturer to carry on his manufactory if such manufacturer shall habitually neglect the rules and regulations prescribed by the superintendent or by law, or shall be in the habit of making bad salt, or if the quantity of salt inspected from his manufactory shall be found materially less than is usually produced from a manufactory of the same capacity of kettles for the time it is actually in operation.

§ 11. Officers not to be concerned in manufacturing.--No officer or employe connected with the salt springs shall be in any way concerned in the manufacture or sale of salt or have any interest whatever, directly or indirectly, in any salt manufactory or erection for the manufacture of salt, or in the profits of any such manufactory, or in any labor or materials, or contracts for doing any work on the salt reservations which may be done under the provisions of this chapter.

§ 12. Deputies and inspectors.-The superintendent may by a written order filed in the clerk's office of Onondaga county appoint the following deputies and assistants: One deputy superintendent, who shall be the receiver and chief clerk and in the case of the death, removal or resignation of the superintendent, possess his powers and discharge his duties until another shall be appointed; one chief engineer, one chief inspector of salt, each of whom shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; three inspectors of salt, who shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars; three block inspectors, each of whom shall receive a salary of sixty dollars for not more than eight months in each year; two re ceivers, who shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred and forty dollars; one receiver, who shall receive an annual salary of five hundred and forty dollars; one overseer of pumps, who shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars; three overseers of pumps, who shall each receive the sum of fifty dollars a month for not more than eight months in each year; one superintendent of aque ducts and reservoirs, who shall receive an annual salary of six hundred and sixty dollars; three such superintendents, who shall each receive an annual salary of four hundred and eighty dollars; one chief inspector of barrels, who shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred and forty dollars; three assistant barrel inspectors, who shall each receive a salary of fifty dollars a month while employed; two assistant barrel inspectors, who shall each receive fifty dollars a month for such time as their services are necessary

and such additional assistants, pumpers, inspectors, weigners and overseers as may be necessary during the business part of the season, who shall receive not more than fifty dollars a month for not more than eight months a year. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each person appointed by the superintendent shall execute and deliver, to him an official undertaking in amounts with sufficient sureties for the faithful performance of his duties and for the faithful and punctual payment to such superintendent of all moneys which such person shall from time to time receive, and as often and at such stated periods as may be required of him. A list of the names of all officers appointed by the superintendent shall be kept conspicuously posted in each of the receivers' offices in the several districts.

§ 13. Inspection of salt.-The superintendent and his deputies charged with the inspection of salt shall carefully and constantly superintend its manufacture in the several fine and coarse salt manufactories, and examine and inspect such salt in the various stages of its production in the kettles, vats, bins and storehouses; and require inferior or impure salt to be separated from salt suitable for passing inspection, and to be either destroyed or returned to the cisterns to be dissolved or deposited in some proper place and disposed of as salt of second quality. No salt shall pass as good unless it is manufactured as directed by this chapter and by the rules and regulations of the superintendent, and is well made, free from dirt, filth, stones, admixtures of lime, ashes of wood, and other substances injurious thereto, fully drained from pickle and bitterns, properly extracted therefrom. The superintendent shall allow salt made from the brine of the springs to be manufactured without extracting the bitterns or impurities therefrom, provided all such salt, whether shipped loose or in bags, barrels or packages shall be designated and branded as impure and agricul tural salt. Salt shall not be packed in casks, barrels, sacks or other vessels, or taken from the salt house in bulk or otherwise, until it has remained in the bin or storehouse at least fourteen days, and the inspectors shall have determined upon an actual examination that it is sufficiently drained of pickle and fit for inspection. No inspection shall be made after sundown or before sunrise, and no salt manufacturer shall retail or deliver any uninspected salt after sundown or before sunrise. No person shall remove or attempt to remove from the reservation or from any salt manufactory, storehouse or other place of deposit, any salt before it shall have been