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purpose of encouraging and improving practical liorticulture, and of imparting in- 

 struction in tlie best metliods 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 ma- 

 jority 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 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 packages, and other material or transport- 

 able 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 circulated by the Board in printed form among the fruit- 

 growers and fruitdealers 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 State, one of which shall be at the county courthouse. Such regu- 

 lations, when so promulgated, 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 $5.00 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 

 all regulations of the Board and all provisions of law to prevent the introduction 

 secretary under their direction, to visit their respetive districts and to see that 

 or spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees or plants injurious to the horticul- 

 tural interests of the State are enforced. Any member of the Board, or secre- 

 tary thereof, shall forthwith, upon the complaint of interested parties, inspect 

 orchards, nurseries and other places suspected to be infested with fruit pests 

 or infected with contagious 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 place to be under quarantine, and shall give notice thereof by post- 

 ing 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 provided. 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 the fact 

 to the Board, who may confirm such action or may re-establish the said quaran- 

 tine, in which case it shall not be again suspended but by action of the Board. 



Section 8. The Board, and, in case of necessity during the recess of the 

 Board, the member residing in the quarantined district, or the secretary, may 

 appoint such quarantine guardian as may be needed to carry out the provisions 

 of this act, whose duty it shall be to see that the regulations of the Board 

 and the instructions of the secretary are enforced and carried out. They shall 

 also report to the Board all infractions or violations of said regulations or the 



