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inologist connected with the State Experiment Station. 

 Text of Alabama Boll Weevil Law. 



An Act to prevent and prohibit the importation of seed from 

 CDtton affected with the Texas boll weevil. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of Alabama, That 

 no person shall import or bring into the State of Alabama any 

 seed from cotton aflfected with what is known as the Texas boll 

 weevil, nor the seed from any cotton from any place where the 

 cotton has been affected with said boll weevil. 



Sec. 2. Any person who violates the provisions of section 1 

 o-f this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 

 shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and not more 

 than five hundred dollars (.$500.00). 



(H. 877, No. 559, approved Oct. 6, 1903.) 



In addition to the above, the State Board of Horticulture 

 organized by Act of the Legislature No. 121, approved 

 March .5. 1903. has established regulations governing the 

 shipment into and through the State of cotton products, 

 packing materials, household goods, etc. The text of the 

 regulations which are at present in force is as follows: 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 



Governing the Importation of Articles Liable to Contain 

 THE Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil- 



Rule 11. In accordance with an act of the Legislature of the 

 State of Alabama entitled: An act to Further Protect Horticul- 

 ture, Fruit Growing and Truck Gardening, and to Exclude Crop 

 Pests of all kinds in the State of Alabama, approved March 5, 

 1903; the following rules and regulations relative to the Mexican 

 Cotton Boll Weevil were adopted : 



(a) That in order to prevent the introduction of the Mexican 

 Cotton Boll Weevil into the State of Alabama, a rigid quarantine 

 is hereby declared against all infested localities in Texas or 

 Louisiana, and of other sections that are or may hereafter become 

 infested. 



(b) That cotton lint (loose, baled flat or compressed) cotton 

 seed, seed cotton, hulls, seed cotton and cotton seed sacks (which 

 have been used) and corn in the shuck, originating in cotton boll 

 weevil infested localities, shall be excluded absolutely from the 

 State of Alabama. 



(c) All shipments of household goods from Infested areas shall 

 be prohibited unless the same is accompanied by an affidavit, at- 

 tached to the way-bill stating that the shipment contains no cotton 



