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NORTH CAEOLINA. 



CHAPTER 264,— Laws of 1897. 



An Act to prevent the introduction and dissemination of dangerous 

 insect, fungous, and weed pests of crops. 



Section 1. That for the purpose of this act the state commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, the director of the North Carolina Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and the president of the North Carolina State 

 Horticultural Society, are hereby constituted a commission for the 

 extermination of noxious insects, fungous diseases and weeds which 

 are affecting or may affect crops. They are empowered to elect one 

 of their number chairman, and to adopt rules and regulations for 

 their own government, such as may be requisite for carrying out the 

 provisions of this act. The members of the said commission shall 

 receive no salary, and shall be allowed only such expenses as have 

 been speciiically incurred and necessary in attending the meetings 

 of the commission. 



Sec. 2. The members of the commission aforesaid shall hold a 

 meeting within 30 days after the ratification of this act, and shall 

 prepare and publish a list of dangerous crop pests, known to be pres- 

 ent within the state or liable to be introduced, and may at any sub- 

 sequent meeting extend or amend such list. The commission shall 

 also publish methods for exterminating such pests as they may deem 

 capable of being economically exterminated within the boundaries 

 of the state, and for repressing such as cannot be economically ex- 

 terminated, and for preventing the spread of such pests within the 

 state. They may also adopt regulations, not inconsistent with the 

 laws and constitution of this state and the United States, for pre- 

 venting the introduction of dangerous crop pests from without the 

 state, and for governing common carriers in transporting plants 

 liable to harbor such pests to and from the state, and such regula- 

 tions shall have the force of laws. 



Sec. 3. No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly and wil- 

 fully keep upon his or their premises any plant infested by any 

 dangerovis crop pest listed and published as such by the said com- 

 mission, or permit dangerous weed pests to m'ature seed or otherwise 

 multiply upon their land except under such regulations as the com- 

 mission may prescribe. Every such infested plant and premises 

 are hereby declared a public nuisance. The owner of such plants or 

 premises shall, when notified to do so by the commission, take such 

 measure as may be prescribed to eradicate such pests, and if such, 

 action is not taken, or is improperly executed within 10 days after 

 being so notified, the commission shall cause said premises to be 



