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the board of county commissioners, and of such character as they 

 shall direct. 



Sec. 5. If the result of the inspection of the county horticultural 

 inspector shall be to put any of the articles mentioned in section 2 of 

 this act in quarantine, such articles shall be exempt from removal 

 from the county during the pendency of such quarantine regulations. 

 Whenever said inspector shall deem it necessary to the safety of the 

 horticultural interests of his county, he may hold in quarantine for 

 information, subsequent inspection or disinfection and final order 

 relative thereto, any of the articles enumerated in said section 2 of 

 this act for such reasonable time as in his judgment is necessary, 

 without unreasonable delay. 



Sec. 6. Any person or persons who shall ship or bring or cause to 

 be brought or shipped into any county of the state having a county 

 horticultural inspector any of the articles mentioned in section 2 of 

 this act, shall have placed upon or securely attached to each box, 

 package, or separate parcel of such articles, a distinct mark or label, 

 showing the name of the owner, agent or shipper, the name of the 

 grower, and any further evidence necessary to determine the locality 

 where grown. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the county horticultural inspector 

 in each county, whenever he shall deem it necessary, to make an in- 

 spection of any orchard, nursery or trees, or any fruit-packing house, 

 storeroom, salesroom, or other place or article within his jurisdic- 

 tion, and if found infested with insects, or pests or diseases injurious 

 to fruit, fruit-trees, vines, bushes or other horticultural interests 

 he shall notify the owner or owners, or person or persons in charge 

 or in possession of such trees, place or other thing as aforesaid, that 

 the same or any of them are infested with insects, or their eggs or 

 larvae, or with fruit or fruit-tree diseases, and shall give a formula 

 for the treatment thereof, and such person or persons so notified 

 shall eradicate or destroy the said insects or pests, or their eggs or 

 larvte, within a certain time to be specified in said notice. Said 

 notices may be served upon the person or persons, or either of them, 

 owning or having charge, or having possession of such infested place, 

 trees or other thing as aforesaid, by the inspector or any deputy in- 

 spector. Any and all such places, trees or other thing thus infested, 

 are hereby declared and adjudged to be a public nuisance. When- 

 ever any such nuisance shall exist at any place within his jurisdiction 

 on the property of any non-resident, or on any property the owner or 

 owners of which cannot be found by the inspector, after diligent 

 search within the county, or on the property of any owner or owners 

 upon which notice has been served, and who refuses or neglects to 

 abate the same within the time specified, or to follow the directions 

 given by said inspector for disinfecting the same, it shall be the duty 

 of such inspector to cause the same to be at once abated, by eradi- 

 cating or destroying said insects or other pests, their eggs or larvae, 

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