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WASHINGTON. 



CHAPTER 51.— Laws of 1895. 



An Act relating to the state board of horticulture, amending sec- 

 tions six, seven, eight and ten of the act approved February 16, 

 1891, entitled "An act to create a state board of horticulture and 

 appropriate money therefor, and declaring an emergency, and 

 providing a penalty for a violation of the provisions of this act." 



Section 1. Section 6 of said act is hereby amended to read as 

 follows : Sec. 6. For the purpose of preventing the spread of con- 

 tagious diseases among fruit, fruit-trees and orchards, and for the 

 prevention, treatment, cure and extirpation of fruit pests, fungus 

 growths and the disease of fruits, fruit-trees and orchards, and for 

 the disinfection of grafts, scions or orchard debris, empty fruit boxes 

 or packages, and other suspected material or transportable articles 

 dangerous to orchards, fruits and fruit-trees, said board shall make 

 regulations for the inspection and disinfection and quarantining 

 thereof, which regulations shall be circulated in printed form by the 

 board among the fruit-growers and fruit dealers of the state, and 

 shall be published three times in each of three papers of general cir- 

 culation, located in three ditferent parts of the state, and shall be 

 posted in three conspicuous places in each county, one of which shall 

 be at the county court-house thereof. Any violation of said regula- 

 tions shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a 

 fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, to be a charge upon the 

 real property of the person convicted and on the property, on ac- 

 count of the infection of which, or the failure to disinfect which, said 

 conviction is had. 



Sec. 2. Section 7 of said act is hereby amended to read as fol- 

 lows : Sec. 7. Each member of the board shall be an inspector of 

 fruit pests for his respective district. He shall inspect or cause to 

 be inspected, at least once a year each county of his district and in- 

 spect and investigate the needs and requirements of the horticultural 

 and kindred industries of his district. And for the purpose of carry- 

 ing out this provision each of said inspectors in his own district shall 

 have power to appoint in each county of said district a deputy in- 

 spector with full powers to act in the place of said inspector for said 

 district, such appointment of deputies may be made and revoked at 

 the pleasure of the said inspector, and for such length of time only 

 as he shall deem absolutely necessai-y. The deputy inspector shall 

 receive for his services the sum of $2.50 per day for each day actually 

 and necessarily employed. It shall be the duty of each member to 

 see that the laws of the state pertaining to horticulture and also the 

 rules and regulations of the board, be made known and are strictly 



