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information becomes known to either such board or councils, or any 

 member thereof, to appoint, forthwith, three competent freeholders 

 of said t<^)wnship, borough or city as commissioners, who shall hold 

 ofiBce during the pleasure of said board, borough or city council, and 

 such order of appointment and of revocation shall be entered at large 

 upon the township, borough or city records; provided, that the com- 

 missioners now appointed and in office shall continue in said office 

 until their successors are appointed and qualified ; provided, that in 

 case commissioners have already been appointed to prevent the 

 spreading of bush, vine and fruit-tree pests, such commissioners 

 shall be, ex officio, commissioners under this act. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said commissioners within 10 days 

 after the appointment as aforesaid, to tile their acceptances of the 

 same with the clerk of said township, borough or city, and said clerk 

 shall be ex officio clerk of said board of commissioners and he shall 

 keep a correct record of the proceedings of said board in a book to be 

 provided for the purpose, and shall tile and preserve all papers per- 

 taining to the duties and actions of said commissioners, or either of 

 them, which shall be a part of the records of said borough, township 

 or city, providing that if there is no township clerk, then it shall bo 

 the duty of the township auditors to select one of their number as 

 such clerk. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, or any one of 

 them, upon or without complaint, whenever it comes to their notice 

 that either of the diseases known as yellows, black-knot, peach 

 rosette or pear-blight exist or are supposed to exist within the limits 

 of their township, borough or city, to proceed without delay to ex- 

 amine the tree or fruit supposed to be infected, and if the disease is 

 found to exist a distinguishing mark shall be placed upon the dis- 

 eased trees, and the owner notified personally or by a written notice 

 left at his usual place of residence ; or if the owner be a non-resident 

 by leaving the notice with the person in charge of the trees or fruit, 

 or the person in whose possession said trees or fruit may be. The 

 notice shall contain a simple statement of the facts as found to exist 

 with an order to effectually uproot and destroy by fire, or as the 

 commissioner shall order, the trees so marked or designated, or such 

 parts thereof, within five days, Sundays excepted, from the date of 

 the service of the notice ; and in case of fruit infected such notice 

 shall require the person in whose possession or control it is found to 

 immediately destroy the same, or cause it to be done, or the com- 

 missioner may destroy the same. Said notice and order to be signed 

 by one or more of the commissioners. 



Sec. 5. In case any person who is interested in any tree or.trees so 

 ordered to be destroyed shall feel aggrieved by such order, and shall 

 believe that such trees are not so diseased, he may serve a written 

 notice upon all of the commissioners in the township in which such 

 trees are situated, which notice shall specify the part of such order 



