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or for trausportation for sale, shall bear upon them in plain sight and plain letters 

 on the outside the name of the orchard, if any, and the name and post office address 

 of the person, firm, company, corporation or organization, who shall have first 

 packed or authorized the packing of the same, also the name of the locality where 

 the fruit is grown. 



Sec. 11. In counties having a county horticultural commissioner it shall be his 

 duty (and the duty of his deputies) acting as inspectors, which office is hereby 

 created, to enforce the provisions of this act. Additional inspectors shall be appointed 

 by the county horticultural commissioner, upon petition of like nature and at the 

 same pay as provided in section twelve of this act ; provided, that any county having 

 and enforcing a standard higher than the standard in this act shall be exempt from 

 the provisions of this act upon declaration to such effect by the state horticultural 

 commissioner. 



Sec. 12. In a city and county or in counties having no county horticultural 

 commissioner, or deputy, it shall be the duty of the county board of supervisors, 

 upon petition filed with them to appoint inspectors. Said petition shall be signed 

 by at least twenty-five bona fide fruit growers residing in that county, or city and 

 county. The inspectors shall receive for their services the sum of three and one- 

 half dollars per day to be paid monthly upon warrants drawn upon the county 

 treasurer. Upon the petition of twenty-five resident freeholders who are fruit 

 growers or shippers of fruit, the county horticultural commissioner, or board of 

 supervisors, where there is no county horticultural commission, shall immediately 

 remove said inspector for neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, or general unfitness 

 for office. In case of such removal the otBce shall immediately be filled. 



Sec. 13. Any person, firm, company, corporation, or organization, who shall 

 knowingly pack, or cause to be packed, fruit of the kinds specified herein, in boxes, 

 crates, packages, containers, or silb-containers, to be offered for sale or for trans- 

 portation for sale, in wilful violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 14. All laws in conflict with this act or any part thereof are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sec. 15. If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is 

 for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity 

 of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it 

 would have passed this act, and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause and 

 phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, sub- 

 sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. 



