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lars for the year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-two ; and the State Controller will draw his warrants 

 upon the State Treasurer in favor of the Treasurer of the said 

 Board for the said sums, or any part thereof, when they become 

 available, u])on proper demand being made for the same by 

 said Board ; provided^ that no claim shall be paid out of said 

 appropriation until the same shall have been presented to and 

 approved ])y the State Board of Examiners. 



Sec. 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force from 

 and after its passage. 



Assemblyman Reynolds, of Santa Clara, introduced the 

 following bill, which passed both houses and was approved by 

 the Governor March 14, 1881 : 



AN ACT 



To protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State. 



The People of the State of California represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the Board of 

 Supervisors of any county, and signed l)y five or more persons 

 who are resident freeholders and possessors of an orchard, or 

 both, stating that certain or all orchards, or nurseries, or trees 

 of any variety, are infested with scale bug, codlin moth, or other 

 insects that are destructive to trees, and praving that a com- 

 mission be appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to super- 

 vise their destruction, as hereinafter provided, the Board of 

 Supervisors shall, within twenty days thereafter, select three 

 commissioners for the county, to be known as a County Board 

 of Horticultural Commissioners. The Board of Supervisors 

 may fill any vacancy that may occur in said commission by 

 death, resignation, or otherwise, and appoint one Commis- 

 sioner each year, one month or thereabouts previous to the 

 expiration of the term of office of any member of said commis- 

 sion. The said Commissioners shall serve for a period of three 

 years from the date of their appointment, except the Conunis- 

 sioners first ap})ointed, one of whom shall serve for one year, 

 one of whom shall serve for two years, and one of whom shall 

 serve for three years, from the date of appointment. The 

 Commis.sioners first appointed shall themselves decide, by lot, 

 or otherwise, who shall serve for one year, who two years, and 

 wlio three years, and shall notify the Board of Supervisors of 

 the result of their choice. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the dutv of the Countv Board (if Iii)r- 



