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to diligently, faithfully, and impartially discharge the duties of his office, 

 which said oaths shall be filed with the secretary. The secretary shall 

 make and subscribe 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 forma- 

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

 year, and as much oftener as it may deem expedient for consultation and 

 for the adoption of those measures which will best promote the horticultural 

 industries of the state. It may, but without expense 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 exter- 

 minating 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 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, fi'uit boxes and packages, and 

 other material or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, fruit or 

 fruit trees, said board may make regulations for the quarantining, inspec- 

 tion, and disinfection thereof, which said regulations shall be circulated 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 state, one of which shall be at the county courthouse. Such regulations, 

 when so promulgated, shall be held to import notice of their contents to all 

 persons within the state, and shall be binding ui^on all persons therein. A 

 willful violation of any quarantine or other regulation of said board, neces- 

 sary to prevent the introduction into the state, or the shipment, sale or dis- 

 tribution 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 misdeameanor, and on conviction thereof shall 

 be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $100 for each of- 

 fense, 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 

 and to see that all regulations of the board and all provisions of law to pre- 

 vent the introduction or spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees or plants 

 injurious to the horticultural interests of the state are enforced. Any mem- 



