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the board or the secretary thereof. At all stations such other quaran- 

 tine officers as may be from time to time appointed by the board, notice 

 whereof will be given, and complete lists of whom may be obtained from the 

 secretary or any member of the board. 



Hide IS — Importers or owners of nursery stock, trees or cuttings, grafts, 

 buds, or scions, desiring to have such nursery stock, trees, plants, cuttings, 

 grafts, buds, or scions inspected at points other than regular quarantine 

 stations may have such inspection done where required; provided however, 

 that such importers shall pay all charges of inspection; such charges and 

 expenses to be paid before a certificate is granted. Transportation com- 

 panies or pei'sons and consignees or agents shall deliver and cause to be 

 detained all nursei-y stock, trees, plants, and fruit at one or the other of the 

 quarantine stations, for inspection, as provided by the rules and regulations 

 of the board. 



Rule 14 — The fee for the inspection of apple, pear, plum, peach, nec- 

 tarine, prune, cherry, apricot, nut-bearing trees, and all other trees, shrubs, 

 or plants, shall be as follows: Thirty cents per hour, including the time 

 from leaving home, inspection and return home of the inspector, and actual 

 traveling and other expenses. On all fruits the fee for inspection shall be 

 $1.00 on any sum up to $35, and $:!.00 on any sum over that amount, and $5.00 

 for car-load lots. 



liule i.5— All persons growing nursery stock, trees, and plants for sale, 

 or to be offered for sale, are hereby required to report to the commissioner 

 of the district in which said nurssei'y stock, trees, or plants are grown for 

 inspection during the months of September, October, or November of each 

 and every year ; and the commissioner of such district, or his duly appointed 

 deputy, shall inspect such nursery stock, trees, or plants prior to shipment 

 and delivery. When said nursery stock, trees, or plants are found by said 

 inspecting officer to be worthy of a certificate setting forth the freedom of 

 such nursery stock, trees, or plants from live, injurious insect pests, their 

 eggs, larvae, pupa? or fungous disease, the said inspecting officer shall then 

 issue to the owner or owners of said nursery stock, trees, or plants a certifi- 

 cate of inspection. The condition under which this certificate is granted is, 

 that the party or parties receiving such certificate shall be compelled to 

 disinfect by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas, as described in Rule 8, 

 all pear and apple trees, or other stock grown on apple roots, after lifting 

 the same and before delivery to puschaser or carriers ; and, in case such 

 fumigation is neglected, said certificate of inspection shall be void and of 

 no effect. 



Passed at a meeting of the State Board of Horticulture at Portland, 

 Oregon, April 3, 1895, and amended at a regular meeting of the State Board 

 of Horticultui-e at Salem, Oregon, October 15, A. D. 1895. 



