12. To attend to and perform any other duties which may from time to time be required by law.
§ 120. Annual report of. He shall make an annual report to the governor on or before the fifteenth day of November, stating the number, character, condition and result of the actions prosecuted or defended by him in behalf of the state, the cost of prosecuting or defending each action and the amount of fines and penalties collected. He shall also direct attention to any defect in the practical operations of the laws relating to revenue and criminal offenses, and suggest such amendments as in his judgment are necessary to subserve the public interests.
§ 121. Salary of. The annual salary of the attorney general, to include all services rendered ex officio as member of any board or commission as now required, or which may hereafter be devolved upon him by law, is two thousand dollars. And in addition thereto he shall be paid all his necessary expenses in attending court upon official business, to be audited and paid as provided by law in other cases.
§ 122. Assistant, how appointed. The attorney general may, appoint an assistant, whose appointment shall be in writing and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Such assistant attorney general shall have the same powers and authority as the attorney general. He shall before entering on the duties of his office take and subscribe upon his appointment the official oath prescribed by law.
Article 7.-The Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor.
§ 123. Duties of. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture and labor to collect, systematize and present in biennial reports to the legislative assembly statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the state, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the estimated number of persons employed by the several industries within the state, the operation of labor saving machinery and its relation to hand labor, a description of the different kinds of labor organizations in existence in this state and what they have accomplished in favor of the class for which they were organized. Such statistics may be classified as the commissioner of agriculture and labor deems best.
§ 124. Duty of all officials to furnish certain information. Penalty. It shall be the duty of all state, county, township and municipal officers to furnish upon the written request of the commissioner of agriculture all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this article. For the purpose of obtaining statistics relating to manufactures and mining the commissioner of agriculture shall procure in a manner that may seem best to him, the names and addresses of all the manufacturers and mine owners and operators in the state, and shall transmit by mail to each owner, operator or manager of each shop, mill, manufacturing establishment or mine, not later than the first day of July of each year, suitably prepared blanks, embodying inquiries into the subjects upon which the commissioner is required or authorized to prepare statistics, which blanks shall be filled out complete and returned to the commissioner not later than the first day of August following. The information so obtained shall be preserved, systematized and tabulated by the com-
