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all Claims for c*omi)ensation of such deputies shall be audited and paid in the 

 same manner as Claims of memlters of tlie Board of Horticulture. [L. 1903, p. 251, 

 See. 2 ; L. O. L., § 5474.] 



§ 8849. Expenses, How Paid. Any expense, incurred under the provisions of 

 Section SS4S of this act shall be paid out of the appropriation allowed to the 

 State Board of Horticulture. [L. 1003, p. 251. See. 3 ; L. O. L.. § 5475.] 



§ 8850. Meetings of the Board — Election and Duties of President. The board 

 shall meet on the .second Monday of April in eaeh year. Special meetings may 

 be called at other times by three members of the board. At the regulär annual 

 meeting of the board each year, or at any special meeting when the Office of 

 President is vacant, the board shall elect from among its members a President of 

 the board who shall hold Office until the close of the next regulär annual meet- 

 ing unless he ceases to be a member of the board before that time. The President 

 shall preside at all meetings of the board and shall perform all duties imposed 

 upon the commissioner at large of the State Board of Horticulture in Sections 

 8867 to 8877. inclusive. The President and secretary shall pass upon and approve 

 or reject all Claims against the State Board of Horticulture. [L. O. L.. § 5476 ; 

 L. 1915, Chap. 342, See. 4.] 



§ 8851. Office of Board, Where Held, When Open. The office of the board 

 shall be located at such a place as a majority thereof may determine. It shall 

 be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the board, every day excepting 

 Sunday and legal holidays, and shall be in Charge of the secretary during the 

 ab.sence of the board. [L. 1889, p. 127, See. 5; B. & C, See. 4180; L. O. L., 

 § 5477.] 



§ 8853. IMembers to Visit Districts, Inspect and Quarantme Orchards. It 

 shall be the duty of the several members of the board, and of the secretary under 

 their direction, to visit their respective districts, and to see that all regulations 

 of the board and all provisions of law to prevent the introduction or spread of 

 fruit pests and diseases of trees or plants injurious to the hortieultural interests 

 of the State are enforced. * * * [L. O. L., § 5479.] 



§ 8856. Upon a petition of not less than twenty-five resident fruit growers of 

 any county of this State, the county court of said county shall appoint a county 

 inspeetor whose duty it shall be to inspect orchards, nurseries, trees, shrubs, vines, 

 fruits, vegetables, plants, paeking houses, warehouses, storerooms, farms and 

 other places within said county ; to visit and inspect the fruit drying and paek- 

 ing plants while such plants are in Operation ; to enforce such regulations as may 

 be required by the State Board of Horticulture governing the haudling, drying 

 and paeking of prunes, apples, loganberries, or other fruits evaporated and 

 packed for human eonsumption, and to enforce all laws of the State relating to 

 such Insect pests and such diseases as affeet trees, vines, plants of any kind, 

 or fruit or vegetables of any kind and all other hortieultural laws, rules and 

 regulations of the State; provided, however, that the inspeetor so to be appoiuted 

 shall be recommended and certified to be competent by the commissioner of the 

 State Board of Horticulture of the district in whieh said county is situated, and 

 Said county inspeetor shall hold his office during the pleasure of said county 

 court. 



Upon a Petition of not less than twenty-five resident fruit growers of any 

 county of the State, the county court of said county may appoint one or more 

 deputy county inspectors ; provided, however that said deputy county inspeetor 

 or deputj' county inspectors, so to be appointed, shall be recommended and 

 certified in the manner provided for the appointment of a county inspeetor and 

 shall hold office during the pleasure of said county court. Every such deputy 

 county inspeetor shall have and perform all the powers and duties of a county 

 inspeetor. The county inspectors and deputy county inspectors and all other 

 persons authorized to enforce the hortieultural and inspection laws of Oregon 



