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account shall be first approved in writing by the Commis- 

 sioner at Large of the State Board of Horticulture. Before 

 entering upon his duties the State Inspector shall make and 

 subscribe an oath to support the Constitution of the United 

 States and the State of Oregon, and to diligently, faithfully 

 and impartially discharge the duties of his office. This oath 

 shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. 



Section 4. Any person, persons, firm or Corporation who 

 shall bring or cause to be brought into the State of Oregon 

 any nursery stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit pits, or fruit or vegetables, shall immedi- 

 ately after the arrival thereof, notify the State Inspector, 

 if he be in the county in which such articles are received, of 

 their arrival, and hold the same without unnecessarily mov- 

 ing the same or placing such articles where they may be 

 harmful, for the immediate inspection of said State Inspector 

 or county inspector or other person authorized to make such 

 inspection. If there is no State Inspector in the county in 

 which such article is received, it shall then be the duty of 

 such person, firm or corporation to notify the county in- 

 spector of the county in which the article is received. If there 

 is neither State Inspector or county inspector in the county 

 in which such article is received then it shall be the duty of 

 the person, firm or corporation to notify the commissioner of 

 the State Board of Horticulture for the district which in— 

 cludes said county who shall make immediate arrangement 

 for the inspection of such article or articles. The commis- 

 sioners of the State Board of Horticulture and their deputies, 

 the secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, the State 

 Inspector and the county inspectors and their deputies are 

 hereby authorized and empowered to enter at any time into 

 any car, warehouse, depot or upon any ship within the bound- 

 aries of the State of Oregon, whether in the stream or at the 

 dock, wharf, mole or any other place where such nursery 

 stock or fruit or vegetables 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 infected or in- 

 fested, then it shall be the duty of the owner, owners, or per- 

 sons, firm or firms or corporation having Charge or posses- 

 sion thereof toso disinfect at his or their expense such por- 

 tion or portions of the ship, dock, wharf, mole or car or ware- 

 house or depot where such articles may have been located 



