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the purpose of coutrolling and diminishing or eradicating injurious 

 insects, blights, scales and pests, injurious or liable to become injurious, 

 to trees, plants, or other vegetation of value and the fruit thereof. 



Section 1. In view of the presence of injurious insects, blights, 

 scales and pests which are a detriment or which may become a detriment 

 to the agricultural industries of the Territory and for the purpose of 

 preventing or diminishing the damage and loss causable b}' them, all 

 inspectors and other duly appointed agents of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Forestry are hereby empowered to enter at all reasonable times any 

 and all farms, orchards and premises in said Territory, where there are 

 agricultural growths and products, for the purpose of inspecting trees, 

 plants, cuttings, vines, fruits, vegetables, tubers, roots, seeds and other 

 agricultural growths and products thereon. 



Section 2. Whenever such injurious insects, blights, scales, or pests 

 are discovered on any premises, inspectors and other duly appointed 

 agents of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry shall advise the growers, 

 of the crops on such premises as to the best methods of reducing the 

 damage that may be caused thereby, and all fruits, plants, cuttings, 

 vines, vegetables, tubers, roots, seeds or leaves infected with any such 

 insect, blight, scale or pest, shall be destroyed at once by the grower 

 thereof by methods prescribed by the Superintendent of Entomology 

 upon the request of any such inspector or agent. 



Section 3. All inspectors and other duly appointed agents of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry are hereby empowered to seize and 

 destroy any fruit, plant, cutting, vines, vegetables, tubers, roots, seeds, 

 or leaves infected with any sueli insects, blights, scales or ]iests found 

 in any shipment in any part of the Territory. 



Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating the above rule 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be 

 punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars, as provided by 

 Section 390 of the Eevised Laws, as amended by Act 82 of the Session 

 Laws of 1905, and Act 112 of the Session Laws of 1907. 



Section 5. This rule sliall take eft'ect u]ion its approval by the 

 Governor. 



Approved: 



W. F. FliEAR, 



Governor of Hawaii. 



Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Du-ember 30, 1911. 



