74 c The Agricultural Law 



diseased and the value thereof determined as provided herein. 

 The comptroller shall thereafter draw his warrant on the treasurer 

 for the amount certiried by the commissioner of agriculture ar, 



the value thereof aud the treasurer shall pay 

 Payment of. to the owner or owners of the said boxes, con- 

 tainers, trees, shrubs and plants so destroyed 

 the value thereof from any money in the treasury specifically ap- 

 propriated therefor. The provisions of this section shall apply 

 to all boxes, containers, trees, shrubs, and plants hereafter or 

 heretofore destroyed, except as to such boxes, containers, trees, 



shrubs and plants as were brought into the stat^ 

 Exceptions. illegally, and such as are known to be infecti' i 

 or infested with such disease or pests. (As 

 amended by chapter 222 of the Laws of 1909.) 



§ 305. Action to be taken by the commissioner of agriculture 

 relative to nursery stock affected with or by contagious or infectious 

 disease or diseases or infested with insect pest or pests and providing 

 for issuing certificates relative to nursery stock apparently free from 

 such diseases and pests, regulating the use thereof, defining nursery 

 stock, providing for fumigation, forbidding the bringing into the 

 state such diseases or insect pests. — When the commissioner of 

 agriculture knows or has reason to believe that any such contagious 

 disease exists, or that there is good reason to believe that it 



exists, or danger is justly apprehended of its 

 Peit»; introduction into any town or city in the state, 



prevention of. or that any dangerously injurious insect pest 

 exists within this state, and has reason to believe that danger ma\ 

 be justly apprehended from its existence, he shall forthwith send 

 some competent person and such agent or agents as he may deem 

 necessary to assist in extirpating said pest or pests, disease or dis- 

 eases, and the said commissioner of agriculture is hereby authorized 

 and empowered to take such steps and do whatever may be deemed 

 necessary to so control or prev< nt the spread or extirpate such 

 pest or pests, disease or diseases. The said commissioner is hereby 

 empowered to issue such orders or notices as ha may deem necessary 



or proper for the purposes herein relative to 



Notices for such diseased nursery stock or relative to any 



control of. trees, shrubs, plants, vines, boxes, containers 



or packing material concerning which he ha- 

 reasonable cause to believe are or may be infected or infested with 



