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BY AUTHORITY. 



RULE X. 



RULE AND ERGULATION OF THE BOAED OF rO]\CMISSIOXERS 

 OF AGRIOULTITRE AND FORESTRY, CONCKRNIXO HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SANITATFON IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF 

 HONOLULU. 



The Board of Connnissiouers of Affrieiilture and Forestry of the Ter- 

 ritory of Hawaii, hereby make the following rules and regulations for 

 the purpose of controlling and diminishing or eradicating the Mediter- 

 ranean fruit fly and other injurious fruit flies and the larvae thereof 

 and preventing or diminishing the damage and loss eausable by them. 



Section 1. These rules and regulations shall apply to the region 

 bounded as follows, to be known as the quarantine district: On the 

 south by the sea; on the west by the road in Moanalua leading from the 

 tracks of the Oahu Railway and Land Company's railroad mauka on the. 

 Honolulu side of Salt Lake to the main road from Honolulu to Ewa; 

 thence along said main road to its junction with the road leading up 

 to the polo field in ^^Toanalua valley; on tlio north by a line following 

 the sinuosities of the ridges and valleys and running along the most 

 niauka res'denee lots on the ridges and in the valleys, excei)ting Tan- 

 talus Heights, but including the residence lots on Tantalus; and on the 

 east by the western boundary of the land of Waialae-nui. 



Section 2. All fruit, ripe or unripe, wheth-^r on the ground or on 

 the tree or elsewhere, and all melons and vegetables, which appear to be 

 infected by the Mediterranean fruit fly or any other injurious fruit fly 

 or the larvae thereof within the quarantined district shall daily be col- 

 lected by the occupant, or, if no occupant, by the controller of the prop- 

 erty on which such fruit, melon or vegetable exists, and thoroughly 

 destroyed by burning or by such other effective means as the duly 

 appointed agents of the Board of Agricult'.n-e and Forestry may deem 

 sufficient, or so treated as efl'^ctually to destroy any larvae therein of 

 any such fly, or, if within the garbage collection limits, placed in suitable 

 can containers which shall be set couvenicntlv for the garbage collectors. 



Section 3. Inspectors and other duly appointed agents of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestr}' are hereby emiiowered to enter and insj^ect 

 any and all premises within the quarantined district and enforce the pro- 

 visions of Section 2. They are also herel>y empowered to remove or 

 cause to be removed from fruit trees, and shrubs and plants, any and all 

 fruit or vegetables which are infected with the Mediterranean or other 

 fruit fly or the larvae thereof and to Imve the same destroyed, treated 

 or disposed of in the manner prescribed in Section 2. 



Section 4. No fruit, melon or vegetable infected by any such fruit 

 fly or the larvae thereof shall be sold or offered for sale within the 

 quarantined district. 



Section n. Any fruit, melon or vegetable, found exjiosed for sale in 

 the quarantined district wliich apj)ears to be infected l)y the larvae of 

 the Mediterranean or other fruit ily, may be seized by any insjiector or 

 other duly ai)iiointed agent of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry 

 and destroyed. 



■Section 6. No fruit, melon or vegetable shall be thrown, discarded 

 or placed on any sidewalk, road, thoroughfare, road-gutter, river-bed, sea- 

 beach, vacant lot or ]>ark, within the quarantined district except as 

 aforesaid. 



Section 7. Any |)erson violating the above rule shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be ])uniHhed by a fine not 

 to exceed Five Hundred Dollars, as ]irovided l)y Section .'UIO of the Re- 

 vised Laws, as amended by Act S2 of the Session Laws of 1905, and 

 Act 112 of the Session Laws of HMI7. 



