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Board shall make and subscribe an oath to support the Constitution of 

 the United States and of the State of Oregon, and to diligently, faith- 

 fully, and impartially discharge the duties of his office, which said oaths 

 shall be filed with the secretary. The secretary shall make and sub- 

 scribe a like oath, which shall be filed with the treasurer of the Board. 



Section 4. The Board may receive, manage, use, and hold donations 

 and bequests of money and property for promoting the objects of its 

 formation. It shall meet on the second Mondays of April and October 

 of each year, and as much oftener as it may deem expedient for con- 

 sultation and for the adoption of those measures which will best pro- 

 mote the horticultural industries of the State. It may, but without ex- 

 pense to the State, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to 

 lecture in each of the districts named in section 1 of this act, for the 

 purpose of encouraging and improving practical horticulture, and of 

 imparting instruction in the best methods of treating the diseases of fruit 

 and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminating insect pests. 



Section 5. The office of the Board shall be located in such 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 Sundays and 

 legal holidays, and shall be in charge of the secretary during the absence 

 of the Board. 



Section 6. For the purpose of preventing the introduction into the 

 State or spread of contagious diseases, insects, pests, or fungous growths 

 among fruit or fruit ti-ees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and 

 extirpation of fruit pests, and diseases of fruit and fruit trees, and for 

 the disinfection of grafts, scions, orchard debris, fruit boxes and pack- 

 ages, and other material or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, 

 fruit or fruit trees, said Board may make regulations for the quarantin- 

 ing, inspection, and disinfection thereof, which said regulations shall be 

 circulated by the Board in printed form among the frvijt growers and 

 fruit dealers of the State; shall be published at least four successive 

 times in some daily or weekly paper in each county in the State before 

 the same shall be in force therein, and shall be posted in three conspicu- 

 ous places in each county in the State, one of which shall be at the 

 ■county court house. Such regulations, when so pronmlgated, shall be 

 held to import notice of their contents to all persons within the State, 

 and shall be binding upon all persons therein. A willful violation of 

 any quarantine or other regulation of said Board, necessary to prevent 

 the introduction into the State, or the shipment, sale or distribution of 

 any article so infected as to be dangerous to the fruit-growing interest 

 of the State, or the spread of dangerous diseases among fruit trees or 

 orchards, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall 

 be punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each 

 offense, or by fine and imprisonment, not less, than five nor more than 

 thirty days. 



Section 7. It shall be the duty of the several members of the Board, 

 and the secretary under their direction, to visit their respective districts 



