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trees, or if in the judgment of such agent any such trees should 

 be entirely destroyed then the trunk of such tree shall be thor- 

 oughly girdled, and thereupon the owner notified personally, or 

 by a written notice signed by such agent and left at his usual place 

 of residence, or if a non-resident, by leaving the notice with the 

 person in charge of the trees or fruit, or in whose possession they 

 may be. Such notice shall contain a statement of all the facts 

 found to exist, wath an order to effectually remove and destroy 

 by fire or otherwise the trees or parts of trees so marked and desig- 

 nated, within ten days, Sundays excepted, from the day of the 

 service of the notice. In case of fruit so infected, the notice shall 

 require the person in whose possession or control it is found, to 

 immediately destroy the same or cause it to be done. 



§ 2. Every such agent of the commissioner of agriculture in 

 office when this act takes effect shall, if his duties require, con- 

 tinue in office for ten days thereafter when his term shall expire. 

 The commissioner of agriculture shall forthwith notify every such 

 agent, in office when this act takes effect, that his term expires on 

 the tenth day thereafter, but the failure to receive such notice 

 shall not entitle any such agent to receive compensation after the 

 expiration of his term. 



§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 230. 

 AN ACT making an appropriation for horticultural investiga- 

 tions and experiments in the fifth judicial department. 



BecajVIE a law April 4, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three- 



fiftbs being present. 



The People of the State of Neic York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The sum of sixteen thousand dollars^ or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any 

 moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to 

 the agricultural experiment station at Cornell university, for 

 the purpose of horticultural experiments, investigations, instruc- 

 tion and information, in the fifth judicial department, pursuant to 



