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proval of the county commissioners who shall act under the direction 

 and with the authority of said inspector. Said inspector shall be paid 

 for his services the sum of four (4) dollars per day, and said depu- 

 ties two dollars and fifty cents per day, out of the county treasury, for as 

 many days' services rendered as the board of county commissioners 

 shall, by resolution, authorize. It shall be the duty of such inspector 

 and his deputies to keep a complete record of their official doings, and to 

 make a quarterly report thereof to the board of county commission- 

 ers of said county, who shall withhold the warrant for the salary of 

 any delinquent inspector or deputy, until such report is made. The 

 inspector shall furnish each owner or manager of an orchard or 

 vineyard within his jurisdiction such blanks as may be provided by 

 the state board of horticulture, containing questions and inquiries 

 as to the condition of his orchard or vineyard and the extent to 

 which the requirements of the inspector have been complied with. 

 Such owner or manager shall fill out said blanks and return them to 

 the inspector, who shall transmit them to the state board of horti- 

 culture. The board of county commissioners shall have the power 

 to remove any inspector or deputy who shall, in their judgment fail 

 to perform the duties of the office. 



Sec. 2. No person or persons, either as an owner, agent, servant, 

 employee or common carrier shall bring or cause to be brought into 

 any county in the state of Colorado having a county horticultural in- 

 spector, from any district, county, state or foreign country, any trees, 

 vines, shrubs, scions, cuttings, grafts, fruits or fruit pits, without giv- 

 ing notice of their arrival at their destination within 24 hours there- 

 after, to the horticultural inspector of said county; nor keep, sell, 

 plant, expose for sale, deliver, give away or otherwise distribute any 

 of the articles mentioned in this section, or cause or permit the same 

 to be done, except upon order of the county inspector and until 

 they shall first have been inspected as hereinafter provided, and 

 disinfected to the satisfaction of the said inspector. 



Sec. 3. Whenever the county horticultural inspector shall be no- 

 tified of the arrival of any of the articles enumerated in section 2 of 

 this act, he shall within 48 hours make a careful inspection of the 

 same, and if any such articles shall be found by him to be infested 

 with any disease, live scale, or insect pests, detrimental or injurious 

 to fruit-trees or the product thereof, or to plant life, such infested 

 articles shall be removed from the limits of the county within 48 

 hours thereafter, at the expense of the owner, agent or shipper, or 

 shall be destroyed. The owner, agent or shipper shall have the right 

 to elect as to the removal of such infested articles from the county, 

 or to have the same destroyed by order and under the direction of 

 said inspector. 



Sec. 4. The county horticultural inspector shall have the power 

 to establish and maintain quarantine and inspecting stations within 

 his county, whenever and wherever the same may be authorized by 



