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orders of said inspector within five days, the inspector shall employ 

 such aid as may be necessary to carry out his orders and recom- 

 mendations, the expense of which procedure shall be certified to the 

 township board and by them allowed, who shall cause the same to 

 be assessed as a special tax upon the premises concerned. 



Sec. 10. The state inspector of orchards and nurseries shall have 

 power to appoint such number of deputy inspectors as may be re- 

 quired, subject to approval by the state board of agriculture. 



Sec. 11. All expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, 

 not otherwise provided for, shall be audited by the state board of 

 agriculture, and paid out of the general fund of the state, and the 

 auditor-general shall draw his warrant for the same ; provided, 

 that all moneys collected by the state board of agriculture, under 

 this act, shall be paid into the general fund of the state treasury. 



MARYLAND. 



CHAPTER 290.— Laws of 1896. 



An Act to add to article 48 of the code of public general laws, title 

 "inspections," a new sub-title, to be known as "trees and nur- 

 sery stock," and seven new sections thereunder, to be designated 

 "sections 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 57," providing for the exami- 

 nation of trees, plants, vines and nursery stock, and to extermi- 

 nate the San Jose scale, rosette, yellows and other diseases and 

 insects. 



Section 1. That there shall be added to article 48 of the code of 

 public general laws, title " inspections," a new sub-title, to be known 

 as "trees and nursery stock," and seven new sections thereunder, to 

 be designated " sections 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57." 



(51.) The governor of Maryland shall, once in every two years, 

 designate and appoint one of the professors at the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural College, state entomologist, who shall serve without pay, 

 other than that he may receive as professor at said college, but whose 

 expenses shall be paid, as hereinafter provided, whose duty it shall 

 be to inspect any and all nurseries in the state of Maryland, where 

 any trees, plants, vines or other nursery stock is grown, between the 

 first day of each March and the first day of September next succeed- 

 ing, and he shall notify, in writing, the owner of such nursery, the 

 governor of this state and the principal of the agricultural college of 

 the existence of any San Jose scale, yellows, rosette or any other 

 insect or disease which may affect the trees, vines, plants or other 

 stock in such nursery, and also notify the owner thereof, in writing, 

 that he is required on or before a certain day, to be named therein, 

 to take such measures as have been shown or proven to be effectual 

 for the destruction of such San Jose scale, yellows, rosette, or other 

 disease, to destroy and exterminate the same. 



