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sonable compensation for such services as the township trustees may 

 allow. It shall be the duty of the Ohio Experiment Station to pub- 

 lish a bulletin, that shall plainly give full and complete information 

 regarding the causes, symptoms, devastating effects and cure or 

 treatment of peach yellow, black-knot, San Jose scale, or other seri- 

 ous contagious disease of fruits in sufficient quantity to supply every 

 grower of fruit liable to these diseases, in the state. It shall be the 

 duty of the annual township assessor to record the name and address 

 of every person who owns or has charge of any peach, plum, cherry, 

 prune, apricot or almond tree or trees, giving the name and number 

 of each kind, and after the canvass of the township to file said re- 

 port with the township clerk, who, with the aid of the foreman of the 

 township fruit commission, shall inform the state experiment station 

 of the number of bulletins needed in that township, and on receipt 

 of the same the clerk shall mail or deliver one copy to each person 

 who owns or has charge of any and all trees that are liable to serious 

 damage from the contagious threatening diseases treated upon in 

 said bulletin. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said board of fruit commissioners 

 upon or without complaint to carefully seek out, keep down and 

 stamp out the contagious fruit diseases aforesaid mentioned, also the 

 San Jose scale, or other noxious insect pest in every part of the 

 township, during all seasons when the symptoms are plainly to be 

 seen by either of them, to jjroceed together much as possible, without 

 delay and examine the trees and fruit supposed to be infected, and 

 if any of said diseases are found to exist by said fruit commission, 

 they shall place upon the diseased tree a distinguishing mark, and 

 shall place upon the fruit a placard, and indorse thereon the diseased 

 condition of such fruit, and they shall forthwith cause notice in 

 writing to be served upon the owner of the same, if he be a resident 

 within the county, and if the owner be not a resident of such county, 

 then the written notice may be served upon the person having the 

 same in charge for the owner or agent, employee, lessee or otherwise ; 

 such notice may be served personally or by copy left at the usual 

 residence of any such person, and if no such person resides within 

 such county upon whom service can be made, then such notice may 

 be served by mail by being deposited in a post-office, postage prepaid, 

 and addressed to the post office address of such person wherever he 

 may reside. Such notice shall contain a simple statement of the 

 facts as found to exist, with an order of said board of fruit commis- 

 sioners to remove and destroy by burning the trees so marked and 

 designated, the whole tree, roots and branches, where infected with 

 yellows, and the branches infected with black-knot, and the fruit so 

 marked by placard, within 10 days from date of service of said 

 notice, Sundays excepted, and if any person whose duty it is hereby 

 made to destroy the same, fails, neglects or refuses to destroy the 

 same as mentioned in such order of said commissioners, for a period 



