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court shall be collected from the owner or owners of in- 

 fested plants. 



Sec. 7. — It shall be unlawful to offer for sale, sell, 

 give away or transport perenial plants, scions, buds, 

 trees, shrubs, vines, or other plants, tubers, roots, cut- 

 tings, bulbs, known to be infested with dangerously in- 

 jurious insects or plant diseases. Any person or persons 

 violating this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not 

 less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each 

 separate offense. 



Sec. 8.— The said Board of Horticulture, its agents, 

 or employes, are hereby empowered with authority to 

 enter upon any premises in discharge of the duties here- 

 in described. Any person or persons who shall obstruct 

 or hinder them or their agents in the discharge of these 

 duties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 

 upon conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than ten 

 nor more than one hundred dollars. 



Sec. 9. — The Board shall have the power also to 

 adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the 

 laws and constitution of this State and the United 

 States, for preventing the introduction of dangerously 

 injurious crop pests of all kinds from without the State 

 or regarding the dissemination of crop pests within the 

 State, and for the governing of common carriers in trans- 

 porting plants liable to harbor such pests, to and from 

 and within the State, and such regulations shall have the 

 force of laws. 



gEc. 10. — Be it further enacted, that the members of 

 said Board, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, 

 in the absence of the third, shall, within thirty days of 

 the passage of this act, and from time to time, draw up 

 and promulgate through the press of the State the rules 

 and regulations necessary to carry into full and com- 

 plete effect the provisions of this act, carefully defining 



