338 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



and effective means of preventing their introduction, and sliall have cliarge of the 

 Commissioner's San Francisco office provided for in this section of this act. Such 

 chief deputy quarantine officer shall receive a salary of two thousand four hundred 

 dollars per annum. Said Commissioner may appoint a deputy ciuarantine officer who 

 shall be a competent entomologist for the purpose of quarantine work. Such deputy 

 quarantine officer shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per 

 annum. Said Commissioner shall also properly maintain and operate the State Insec- 

 tary located on the State Capitol Grounds in Sacramento from funds provided by 

 law for such purpose, and shall appoint for the work of the insectary division a 

 superintendent of the insectary, who shall be an expert entomologist able to perform 

 all the necessary duties with reference to the importation, rearing and distribution of 

 beneficial insects. The salary of the superintendent of the State Insectary shall be 

 two thousand four hundred dollars per annvuTi. Said Commissioner may appoint an 

 assistant superintendent of the insectary, who shall be an economic entomologist, at 

 a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. Said Commissioner may 

 appoint a field deputy for the insectary division, who shall be a practical entomol- 

 ogist and whose salary shall be one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The 

 salaries of all the officers above mentioned shall be paid at the same time and in 

 the same manner as the salaries of other State officers. Said Commissioner may 

 plso appoint, by and with the approval of the Governor, such temporary deputies 

 from time to time as may be required and such temporary deputies shall receive such 

 reasonable compensation per diem as may be fixed by said Commissioner. 



§ 2319«. Svich Commissioner shall collect books, pamphlets and periodicals and 

 other documents containing information relating to horticulture and shall preserve 

 the same ; collect statistics and other information showing the actual condition and 

 progress of horticulture in this State and elsewhere ; correspond with horticultural 

 societies, colleges and schools, and with the county horticultural commissioners exist- 

 ing or that may exist in this State, and with all other persons necessary to secure 

 the best results to horticulture in this State. He shall require reports from county 

 horticultural commissioners in this State, and may print the same or any part thereof 

 as he may select, either in the form of bulletins or in his annual reports or both, as 

 he shall deem proper. He shall issue and cause to be printed and distributed to 

 county horticultural commissioners in this State, and to such other persons as he may 

 deem proper, bulletins or statements containing all the information best adapted to 

 promote the interest and protect the business and development of horticulture in this 

 State. Such Commissioner shall be deemed to be the State horticultural quarantine 

 officer mentioned in that certain act entitled, "An act for the protection of horticul- 

 ture, and to prevent the introduction into this State of insects, or diseases, or ani- 

 mals injurious to fruit or fruit trees, vines, bushes or vegetables, and to provide for 

 a quarantine for the enforcement of this act," which became a law under consti- 

 tutional provisions without the Governor's approval on March 11th, 1899, for the 

 purposes of that act, and shall be empowered to perform the duties which under that 

 act are to be performed by the State horticultural quarantine officer ; provided, that 

 in any case where it shall become necessary in the judgment of the State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture to quarantine a county or districts within the State against 

 another or other county or counties or districts within the State, or to quarantine 

 the State or a county or district of the State against another state or a foreign 

 country or countries then it shall be necessary that said quarantine shall be made 

 by and with the approval of the Governor as provided in this chapter. 



The State Commissioner of Horticulture may issue commis-sions as quarantine 

 guardians to the county horticultural commissioners, deputies and inspectors ap- 

 pointed by them. 



§ 2319 T). Said Commissioner may, by and with the approval of the Governor, 

 establish, maintain and enforce such quarantine regulations as may be deemed neces- 

 sary to protect the nurseries, trees, shrul)S, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, 

 buds, fruit-pits, fruit, seeds, vegetables or other articles of horticulture, against 

 contagion or infection by injurious disease, insects or pests, by establishing such 

 quarantine at the boundaries of this State or elsewhere within the State, and he may 

 make and enforce, with the approval of the Governor, any and all such rules and 

 regulations as may be deemed necessary to prevent any infected stock, tree, shrub, 

 plant, vine, cutting, graft, scion, bud, fruit-pit, fruit, seeds, vegetable or other article 

 of horticulture, from passing over any quarantine line established and proclaimed 

 pursuant to this act. and all such articles shall, during the maintenance of such 

 quarantine, be inspected by such Commissioner or by deputies appointed in writing 

 by said Commissioner, and he and the deputies so conducting such inspection shall 

 not permit any such article to pass over such a quarantine line during such quaran- 

 tine, except upon a certificate of inspection signed by such Commissioner or in his 

 name by such a deputy who has made such inspection. All approvals by the Gov- 

 ernor given or made pursuant to this act shall be in writing and signed by the Gov- 

 ernor in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the Secretary 

 of State and the other in the office of said Commissioner before such approval shall 

 take effect. 



