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receive a compensation of $5 per day, and shall be paid out of the 

 general fund of the state in warrants drawn by the state auditor, 

 only after bills presented for service have been audited and ap- 

 proved by the secretary and majority of the members of the state 

 board of horticultural inspection. 



From the foregoing you will see that Washington and Califor- 

 nia have, in addition to a state commissioner, county inspectors 

 whose compensation is paid by the county, and in this manner they 

 are able to guard their fruit industiy with the greatest vigilance, 

 that under our present system is not and cannot be done. Your 

 Commissioner at Large, after giving this subject serious considera- 

 tion, respectfully but earnestly recommends : 



That you enact legislation providing for the appointment by the 

 county commissioners of the several counties of our State a county 

 inspector of horticulture ; that said inspector shall be appointed on 

 the petition of not less than 25 actual fruitgrowers in the county 

 where said petition is presented, together with a certificate of quali- 

 fication from the horticultural commissioner of the district in 

 Avhich the county is situated; and fuilher. that the compensation 

 of said inspector shall be a county charge ; and further, that the 

 inspector shall report montlily to said State Commissioner, who 

 shall determine the value of the service rendered, not exceeding 



per day; and further, that it shall be the duty of the State 



Commissioner to educate and instruct said inspector as to the laws 

 and quarantine regulations of the State and as to the duties to be 

 performed by him ; and further, that an inspector may be removed 

 for negligence or incompetency, on the petition of a like number 

 of fruitgrowers and the approval of the State District Commis- 

 sioner by the county commissioners after due hearing; and further, 

 ij' any county for any reason fails to appoint an inspector, then 

 the inspector of an adjacent county may perform such service, and 

 his compensation shall be a charge against the county where such 

 service is performed. 



It is quite immaterial to your Commissioner whether the State 

 Board is abolished and a state commissioner created in lieu thereof. 

 The expense to the State will be about the same, and I am inclined 

 to the opinion that a State District Commissioner would be in 

 nearer touch and could supervise the work f)f the county inspectors 

 more readily than a commissioner at large. 



