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of Horticulture. tlie state inspector, and tlie county inspectors and their deputies 

 are hereby autliorized and empowered tu euter at any time into any car, ware- 

 house, depot or lipon any ship within the boundaries of the State of Oregon, 

 whethor in the stream or at the dock, wharf, mole, or any othor place where 

 such nursery stock or fruit, or vegetal)les, or seed, or other such articles are 

 received, or in which any of such articles are imported into the state, for the 

 purpose of making the investigation or examination to ascertain whether such 

 articles are infested with any injurious insects or their eggs, larvae or pupae, 

 or other animal or plant disease. 



If, after such examination or inspection, any of said articles are found so 

 infec-ted or infested, then it shall lie the duty of the owner, owners, or persons, 

 firm or firms. or Corporation huving Charge or possessiun tliereof to so disinfect 

 at his or their exi)ense such portion or portions of the ship, dock, wharf, mole 

 or car or warehouse or depot where such articles may have been located in 

 such a manner as to destroy all infection or infestation present, and all articles 

 apt to be so infested or infected sliall be held until the said articles have been 

 thoroughly disinfected and all injurious insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupae 

 or other animal or plant diseases have been eradicated and destroyed ; provided, 

 however, that all articles of nursery stock, trees, shrubs, plauts, vines, cuttings, 

 grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, fruits, vegetables or seed which are infested or 

 infected with injurious insects or their eggs, larvae or pupae, or other animals, 

 or with injurious plant disease liable to cause damage in this State, shall be 

 destroyed or reshipped out of the State as hereiuafter provided. [L. 1913, 

 Chap. 246, See. 4.] 



§ 8872. Infected Trees, Plauts, Etc., to Be Shipped Out of State in Certain 

 Cases — Destruction in Other Cases — Separation of Infected and Noninfected 

 Trees, Plants, Etc. When any shipment of nursery stock, trees, vines, plants, 

 shrubs. cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, or fruits or vegetables or seed 

 imported or brought into this State is found infested or infected with any 

 injurious insects or their eggs, larvae or pupae or other animals or with any 

 plant disease liable to be detrimental to orchards, vineyards, gardens or farms 

 in Oregon, or any part thereof, aud the nature of the animals or insects or 

 diseases is such that there will not be danger of the escape or spread of such 

 animals, insects or diseases if the infested or infected articles are promptly 

 shipped out of the State, then the State inspector, county inspector or other 

 person duly authorized to make inspection of such articles and who has made 

 such inspec-tion shall notify the owner, or persons, firm or Corporation having 

 possession or control of said articles to ship the same out of the State within 

 a specified time, the limit of which shall be not less than forty-eight hours, nor 

 more than ten days, according to the nature of the insects, or diseases, and it 



• shall be the duty of such owner or owners, or persons. firm or Corporation, to 

 so ship said articles, but such shipment shall be made under the direction of the 

 officer making the inspection and shall be at the expense of.the owner or owners, 

 his or their agents ; in case of a failure of the owner or owners or his or their 

 agents to comply with the notice the said articles shalL be destroyed by said 



^officer at the expense of the said owner or owners, his or their agents. When 

 any carload, case, box, package, bale or l)undle of such articles is in part 

 infected or infested aud the nature of the infestation or infection is such that 

 the portion of shipment which is not infested or infected can be separated from 

 the portion which is infected or infested without danger of escape from the 

 infested or infected articles of the insects, their eggs, larvae or pupae, or the 

 animals, or the disease or diseases with which such articles are infested, and the 

 owner or person, firm or Corporation having control or possession of such 

 articles desires to separate the portion not infested or infected from the portion 

 which is infested- or infected, the officer making the inspection shall give a 



