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(&) To design, and cause to be printed or lithographed, suitable 

 uniform stamps to be used on apple boxes, as required by section 4 of 

 this act, to sell the same as hereinafter provided, and to prescribe tlie 

 method of canceling the same. 



(c) To appoint, superintend, control, and discharge, such inspectors, 

 in accordance with the provisions of the civil service law of the state, 

 for the special purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act, as in 

 his discretion may be deemed to be necessary, and in conjunction with 

 the board of control, to fix their compensation, provided that no 

 inspector shall be paid more than five dollars per day. 



(d) Personally, or through any deputy or any such inspector, to 

 seize and retain possession of, any apples or apple boxes packed, 

 shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for sale or sold, in violation of 

 any of the provisions of this act. 



(e) In the name of the people of the State of California to cause to 

 be instituted and to prosecute, in the superior court of any county or 

 city and county of the State of California, in w^hich apples packed, 

 shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for sale or sold, in violation of 

 any of the provisions of this act, may be found, an action or actions for 

 the condemnation of apples as provided in section 11, of this act. 



Sec. 6. The stamps designed and provided by the state commissioner 

 of horticulture of California, as provided by section 5 of this act, by 

 him shall be placed on sale and sold to any person who may apply there- 

 for, at the price of one-half cent each. All moneys received by him from 

 the sale of such stamps shall be paid over to the treasurer of the State 

 of California, who shall deposit the same to the credit of a fund to be 

 used exclusively for the payment of the expenses of enforcing the pro- 

 visions of this act, and to be paid out only upon claims approved by the 

 state commissioner of horticulture of California and by the board of 

 control. 



Sec. 7. One such stamp, canceled as required by the state commis- 

 sioner of horticulture, shall be attached by the packer to the labeled or 

 branded end of every box of apples to which this act is made applicable ; 

 and no box to which such stamp is attached shall be used as the con- 

 tainer of any apples, other than those originally packed therein, until 

 such stamp has been removed therefrom ; provided, that where a single 

 lot of not to exceed one carload of six hundred forty boxes of apples, 

 the containers of which bear such stamps, are re-packed without the 

 addition of new stock, the same boxes may be used without removing 

 the stamps. 



Sec. 8. The inspectors appointed by the state commissioner of horti- 

 culture of California, as in section 5 hereof provided, shall be citizens 

 of the United States, and of the State of California, not less than 

 twenty-one years of age, shall be skilled in the inspection of apples, and 

 have a thorough knowledge of insect pests and diseases commonly prey- 

 ing upon such fruit; they shall have power to enter and to inspect 

 every place within the State of California where apples are packed, 

 shipped, delivered for shipment, offered for sale or sold, and to inspect 

 all apples and apple boxes found in any such place ; and shall perform 

 such duties as may be prescribed by the state commissioner of horti- 

 culture of California, or by law. 



