THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 337 



CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL LAWS 

 AND OUARANTINE ORDERS RE- 

 LATING TO INSECTS. 



(Repealed quarantine orders and those covered by State and national laws are not 



included here.) 



AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



[Approved April 26, 1911.] 



§ 2319, Political Code. The State Commissioner of Horticulture of California 

 shall be a citizen and resident of this State, and his term shall be for four years, 

 and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The Governor may remove such 

 Commissioner from office at any time upon filing with the Secretary of State a certifi- 

 cate of removal signed by the Governor. In the case of vacancy in said office by 

 death, resignation, removal from office, or other cause the Governor shall fill the 

 vacancy for the unexpired term. In appointing such Commissioner and his successor 

 or successors It shall be the duty of the Governor to disregard political affiliations 

 and to be guided in his selection entirely by the professional and moral qualifications 

 ot the person so selected for the performance of the duties of said office. Said Com- 

 missioner shall be a civil executive officer. The salary of said Commissioner shall be 

 tour thousand dollars per annum, and he shall be allowed his traveling and incidental 

 expenses necessary in the discharge of his duties. For the direction and accomplish- 

 ment of his work tlie said Commissioner may and is hereby empowered to appoint 

 certain deputies, secretary, quarantine officers, superintendents, assistants, and clerk 

 as hereinafter provided, who shall hold office at the pleasure of said Commissioner 

 and perform any and all duties pertaining to their office or employment which the 

 said Commissioner may require of each of them, and may be removed from office or 

 position at any time by said Commissioner filing with the Secretary of State a certifi- 

 cate signed by said Commissioner so removing such deputy, secretary, quarantine 

 officer, superintendent, assistant, or clerk. The traveling and other necessary ex- 

 penses incurred by the officers and employees herein provided for in the performance 

 of their duties shall be paid from the funds appropriated for the support of the office 

 of State Commissioner of Horticulture. Said Commissioner may arrange his office 

 into three divisions, to wit : executive office, quarantine division, insectary and 

 pathological division. Said Commissioner may appoint a chief deputy who shall be 

 an expert entomologist and horticulturist and shall have charge of the work in the field 

 and shall represent the Commissioner ex officio with the county horticultural com- 

 missioners when so authorized in accordance with the provisions of the law. Such 

 chief deputy shall receive a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. 

 Said Commissioner may appoint a secretary, who shall be a civil executive officer. 

 Said secretary shall be versed in horticulture and entomology and shall compile such 

 bulletins and such pul)lications as may issue from the office of said Commissioner 

 from time to time, and shall perform all other duties as may be required of him by 

 said Commissioner. Such secretary shall receive a salary of two thousand four hun- 

 dred dollars per annum. Said Commissioner may appoint a clerk whose salary shall 

 be one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The main office of such Commis- 

 sioner shall be at the city of Sacramento. The Secretary of State shall furnish and 

 set aside at the capitol a room or rooms suitable for offices for said Commissioner, 

 and if the Secretary of State shall make and file an affidavit with the said Commis- 

 sioner stating that it is not possible for him, as such Secretary of State, to provide 

 and set aside an office for said Commissioner in the Capitol or in any State building 

 under his control, because there is no such office room or rooms available, then, and 

 after the making and delivery of such affidavit to such Commissioner, the said Com- 

 missioner may rent rooms convenient and suitable for his offices at a rental not to 

 exceed one thousand dollars per year. The office of said Commissioner shall be kept 

 open every day except holidays, and shall be in charge of the secretary, during the 

 absence of the Commissioner. Said Commissioner may also keep and maintain an 

 office in the city and county of San Francisco at a yearly rental not to exceed the 

 sum of five hundred dollars. Said Commissioner may appoint for the work of the 

 quarantine division a cliief deputy quarantine officer who shall be a skilled entomolo- 

 gist and particularly conversant with the nature of foreign insect pests and diseases 



