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at all reasonable times to search for injurious insects or other injurious 

 animals or danf:jerous plant diseases, and to carry out the orders of the 

 Board in relation thereto and they shall not be holden guilty of any 

 misdemeanor by so doing nor shall they be personally liable in damages 

 except for acts beyond the scope of their authority or due to their own 

 negligence. 



Section 2. Whenever any injurious insect or other injurious animal 

 or dangerous plant disease is discovered on any premises, the officer, 

 inspector or other duly appointed agent of the Board charged with that 

 duty, shall notify the owner of the same and prescribe a method or 

 methods of controlling or eradicating the said insect or other animal or 

 plant disease, and the owner, upon receipt of such notification shall do 

 and perform the prescription of said officer, inspector or otlier duly au- 

 thorized agent, relative to its control or eradication, or upon failure to 

 so do and perform within a reasonable time after notification, the said 

 officer, inspector or duly authori;;^ed agent may and is hereby authorized 

 and empowered to enter, upon said premises to do and perform the same 

 or cause the same to be done and performed. 



Section 3. All officers, inspectors and other duly authorized agents 

 of the Board are hereby authorized and empowered to seize and destroy 

 any soil, nursery stock, tree, sugar cane, shrub, plant, flower, vine, cutting, 

 graft, scion, bud, seed, root, fruit pit, fruit, vegetable, leaf, nut or other 

 vegetable growth, or other substances and any box, barrel, package or 

 packing material or containers in which said articles or any of them 

 have been transported or contained, which is or may be infected or in- 

 fested with or likely to assist in the transmission or dissemination of any 

 injurious insect or insects or injurious animal or animals or dangerous 

 plant diseases, or diseases 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 ($500), as pro- 

 vided by Section 529 of the Eevised Laws of Hawaii of 1915. 



Section 5. This rule, as amended, shall take effect upon its approval 

 by the Governor. 

 * Approved this 26th dav of May, 1920. 



c. J. McCarthy, 



Governor of Hawaii, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



TERRITORY OF HAWAII. 



BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 FORESTRY. 



AMENDMENT TO RULE XX— DIVISION OF PLANT INSPECTION. 



The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the Terri- 

 tory of Hawaii hereby amends Section 5 of Rule XX of the Division of 

 Plant Inspection, approved May 26, 1919, concerning the control of insect 

 pests and plant diseases in the Territory of Hawaii, so as to read as fol- 

 lows: 



Section 5. Plants and trees for forestry, horticultural and agricultural 

 purposes may be shipped in reasonable quantities from the Island of Oahu 

 to any other island in the Territory under a special permit, when said 

 plants and trees have been grown in sterilized soil under conditions and 

 for a period satisfactory to the Chief Plant Inspector, or have been 

 transplanted to sterilized soil prior to shipment and properly housed to 



