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No. 121. Code of 1903. 



AN ACT 



To Further Protect Horticulture, Fruit Growing, and 

 Truck Gardening, and to Exclude Crop Pests of all 

 Kinds in the State of Alabama. 



Section 1. — Be it Enacted by the Legislature of Ala- 

 bama. That from and after the passage of this act, the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State 

 of Alabama, the President of the Alabama State Horti- 

 cultural Society, and the Director of the Experiment 

 Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute shall, ex- 

 officio, constitute a board to be known as the State 

 Board of Horticulture, of which the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture and Industries shall be chairman, which 

 board shall have full power to enact such rules and regu- 

 lations governing the examination, certification, sale, 

 transportation and introduction of trees, shrubs, cut- 

 tings, buds, vines, bulbs, and roots, that they may deem 

 necessary to prevent the further introduction, increase 

 and dissemination of insect pests and plant diseases. 



Sec. 2. — That the Professor of Horticulture of the 

 Alabama Polj-technic Institute shall act as State Horti- 

 culturist and a.s secretary of said Board of Horticulture 

 under the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty 

 of the said board to promulgate rules and regulations in 

 accordance with this act for the government of the said 

 State Horticulturist in the duties devolving upon him in 

 execution of the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 3. — There is hereby annually appropriated the 

 sum of ( |1,500 ) fifteen hundred dollars, to be disbursed 

 under the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Ala- 

 bama Polytechnic Institute for the purpose of defraying 

 the expense in the execution of this act. 



Sec. 4. — The State Horticulturist or a deputy duly 



