52 SCALE INSECTS. 



OREGON.— Laws of 1895. 



An Acn' to amend an act entitled "An act to create a state board of 

 horticulture and appropriate money therefor," approved February 

 25, 1889, and an act amendatory thereof, entitled "An act to amend 

 an act entitled 'An act to create a state board of horticulture and 

 appropriate money therefor,' approved February 25, 1889," ap- 

 proved February 21, 1891, and to protect the horticultural indus- 

 try in Oregon. 



Skc. 10. It shall be the duty of the several members of the 

 board, and of the secretary, under their direction, whenever they 

 shall deem it necessary, to cause an inspection to be made of any 

 orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, vegetable.s, vines, or any fruit pack- 

 ing-house, storeroom, salesroom, or any other place within their dis- 

 tricts, and if found infested with any pests, diseases, or fungous 

 growths injurious to fruits, plants, vegetables, trees, or vines, or with 

 their eggs or larvie, liable to spread to other places or localities, or 

 such nature as to be a public danger, they shall notify the owner or 

 owners, or persons in charge of or in possession of such articles, 

 things, or places, that the same are so infested, and shall require 

 said persons to eradicate or destroy said insects or pests, or their 

 eggs or larv;e, or to treat such contagious diseases within a certain 

 time, to be specified in said notice. Said notices may be served upon 

 the person or persons, or any of them, owning, having charge, or 

 having possession of such infested place, article, or thing, by any 

 member of the board, or by the secretary thereof, or by any person 

 deputed by the said board, or any member or the secretary thereof, 

 or by any person deputed by said board for that purpose, or they 

 may be served in the same manner as a summons in an action at law. 

 Such notice shall contain directions for the application of some 

 treatment approved by the commissioners for the eradication or de- 

 struction of said pests, or the eggs or larvie thereof, or the treatment 

 of contagious diseases or fungous growths. Any and all such places, 

 orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, fruit, or 

 articles thus infested are hereby declared to be a public nuisance : 

 and whenever any such nuisance shall exist at any place in the state 

 on the property of any owner or owners upon whoiu or upon the per- 

 son in charge or possession of whose property notice has been served 

 as aforesaid, and who shall have failed or refused to abate the same 

 within the time specified in such notice, or on the property of any 

 non-resident, or any property not in the {Kissession of any person and 

 the owner or owners of which cannot be found by the resident mem- 

 ber of the board or the secretary, after diligent search within the 

 district, it shall be the duty of the board, or the members thereof in 



