200 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



6 for a violation of this act. It shall also be the duty of the state ento- 

 mologist to inspect foreign importations in accordance with the federal 

 plant quarantine act. 



Nurserymen and dealers of Nebraska shall be privileged to ship, 

 under the certificate issued to them, nursery stock grown for them else- 

 where or purchased by them from other states or countries; provided 

 that all such stock be received under certificates approved by the offi- 

 cial inspector of the state where grown, stating that it has been in- 

 spected by him and found to be apparently free from dangerous insects 

 and plant diseases. 



On issuing his certificate after inspection of a commercial nursery, 

 the state entomologist shall collect therefor a fee covering the expenses 

 of inspection as certified by him, according to the amount of stock in- 

 spected, the time occupied, and the distance traveled in making such 

 inspection; provided, that such fees be not less than five dollars nor 

 more than twenty dollars, which shall be turned into the state treasury. 



Sec. 5. Whenever any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines are shipped 

 from place to place in Nebraska, or shipped into Nebraska from another 

 state, county, or province, every such shipment shall be plainly labeled 

 on the outside with the name of the consignor, the name of the con- 

 signee, and a certificate signed by a state or government inspector show- 

 ing that the contents have been inspected by such inspector, or by his 

 authority, since the first day of July last preceding, and that the trees, 

 vines, shrubs, and plants there present and contained therein appear 

 free from all dangerous insects and plant diseases. Whenever any trees, 

 shrubs, vines, or plants are shipped as above without such certificate 

 plainly affixed, the facts must be reported within twenty-four hours to 

 the state entomologist by the railway, express, or steamboat company 

 or other person or persons carrying the same, and it shall be unlawful 

 to deliver any such property until it has been inspected by the state 

 entomologist or his assistants and by him or them certified to be free 

 from dangerous insects and plant diseases. Any agent of any railway, 

 steamboat, or express company or other person or persons carrying such 

 property as aforesaid, who shall fail to give such notice as above re- 

 quired shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act. 



Whenever nursery stock is shipped into Nebraska, covered by a 

 valid certificate signed by other state or government inspectors, such 

 certificates shall be held prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, 

 but the state entomologist or his assistants, upon suspicion that such 

 stock might harbor dangerous insect pest or plant diseases, shall be au- 

 thorized to inspect such stock, and if necessary subject it to proper treat- 

 ment. Provided, that plants, flowers, or cuttings known as greenhouse 

 stock and native stock collected in the United States and not grown In 

 nurseries shall not l)e required to bear certificates of inspection for 

 shipment except when coming from districts known to b'^ infested by 

 gipsy or brown-tail moths or other recognized dangerous insect pests. 



