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Sec. 6. Any owner, occupant or person in charge of land on which 

 fruit-trees are growing who has been notified as provided for in sec- 

 tion 4 of this act to disinfect his trees or vines, who shall fail or neg- 

 lect without sufficient cause to comply with said notice, shall, after 

 conviction in a court having jurisdiction, be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. 



Sec. 7. When the owner, occupant or person in charge of any 

 premises shall have been convicted on account of neglect or failure 

 to carry out the provisions of section 6 of this act, and he still re- 

 fuses to comply therewith, all infested trees or vines on his premises 

 may be disinfected at the expense of the owner or occupant of said 

 premises. 



Sec. 8. Any person who fails to disinfect his storeroom, ware- 

 house or salesroom as directed by the fruit-tree inspector shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 9. All persons importing or exporting trees in any county 

 must get the inspector's certificate that such trees are free from 

 fruit-destroying insects, their larva? or their pup;^?, and a failure or 

 neglect so to do shall subject them to the penalties provided for in 

 section 8 of this act. 



Sec. 10. The compensation of the fruit-tree inspector shall be 

 fixed by the county court and paid out of the county treasury; and 

 all fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into 

 the county treasury. 



Sec. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its approval. 



Approved March 7, 1894. 



VIRGINIA.— Laws of 1896. 



An Act to eradicate the San Jose or pernicious scale, a disease 

 affecting fruit-trees, and to prevent its spread. 



Section 1. The board of control of the state agricultural experi- 

 ment station be, and is hereby, empowered and directed to take im- 

 mediate action to suppress and eradicate this insect. 



Sec. 2. The said board is hereby authorized and required to des- 

 ignate a member of the scientific staff of the agricultural experiment 

 station to act as an inspector under the provisions of this act, and it 

 shall be the duty of the said board to promulgate at once rules and 

 regulations in accordance with this act for the government of the 

 said inspector in the duties devolving upon him in the execution of 

 the provisions of this act ; and the said Board may further employ 

 temporarily an assistant by the day for the purpose of executing the 

 orders of the inspector in regard to the treatment of the infected 

 plants. 



Sec. 3. The inspector shall have power under the regulations of 

 the said board to determine whether any infested plants are worthy 



