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dustries of the State. It may, but without expense to the State, select accl 

 appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in each of the districts 

 named in section 1 of this act, for tlie jjurpose of encouragjing and impros- 

 ing practical horticulture, and of imparting instruction in the best methods 

 of treating the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and ex- 

 terminating 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, sub- 

 ject to the rules of the Board, every day excepting Sundays and legal holi- 

 days, and shall be in charge of the secretary during the absence of the 

 Board. 



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

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

 among fruit or fruit trees, 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 quarantining, 

 inspection, and disinfection thereof, which said regulations shall be cir- 

 culated by the Board in printed form among the fruit 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 conspicuous places 

 in each county in the Sd;ate, one of which shall be at the county court 

 house. Such regulations, when so promulgated, shall be held to import 

 notice of their contents to all persons within the State, and shall be bind- 

 ing 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 imprison- 

 ment, 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 

 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 horticultural interests of the State are enforced. 

 Any member of the Board, or secretary thereof, shall forthwith, upon the 

 complaint of interested parties, inspect orchards, nurseries and other 

 places suspected of being infested with fruit pests or infected with con- 

 tagious diseases injurious to the trees, plants or fruits. If, upon report 

 of any member or the secretary, the Board shall be of the opinion that any 

 locality, district, orchard or place is infested with fruit pests, or infected 

 with contagious diseases, or injurious to trees, plants, or fruits, and liable 

 to spread to other orchards or localities to their damage or injury so as to 

 be a public danger, said Board shall, by an order entered upon its minutes, 

 declare such a place to be under quarantine, and shall give notice thereof 

 by posting a notice in writing in a conspicuous place upon the premises, 

 specifying with convenient certainty what place or premises are under 

 quarantine regulations, and by delivering a copy of such notice to the 

 owner or person in charge of the premises, if he may be found thereon; 

 and such place shall thereafter be subject to quarantine regulations of 

 the Board, and violation thereof shall be punishable as hereinbefore pro- 

 vided. As soon as, in the opinion of any member of the Board or the 

 secretary thereof, the danger from such quarantine locality shall have 

 ceased, he may suspend the said quarantine and shall immediately report 



