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frame regulations for the better protection of the State from the intro- 

 duction of insect pests and diseases. 



The time allotted to me is too short to give you more than a few 

 quotations from this valuable law, the title of which is: 



"An Act provided for the protection of Horticulture and to prevent 

 the introduction into this State of insects or diseases or animals injurious 

 to fruit or fruit trees, vines, bushes, or vegetables, providing for a quaran- 

 tine for the enforcement of this Act, making a violation of the terms of 

 the Act a misdemeanor, and providing a penalty therefor ; providing 

 that said Act shall be an urgency measure and go into effect immediately, 

 and repealing that certain Act, entitled "An Act for the protection of 

 Horticulture, and to prevent the introduction into this State of insects or 

 diseases or animals injurious to fruit or fruit trees, vines, bushes or 

 vegetables, and to provide for a quarantine for the enforcement of this 

 Act," approved March 11. 1899." 



Section I provides: 



"Any person, persons, firm or corporation who shall receive, bring 

 or cause to be brought into the State of California, any nursery stock, 

 trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds or fruit pits, or 

 fruit or vegetables, or seed, shall immediately after the arrival thereof 

 notify the state commissioner of horticulture, or deputy quarantine 

 officer, or quarantine guardian of the district or county in which such 

 nursery stock, or fruit or vegetables, or seed are received, of their arrival, 

 and hold the same without unnecessarily moving the same, or placing 

 such articles where they may be harmful, for the immediate inspection 

 of such state commissioner of horticulture, or deputy quarantine officer 

 or guardian. Provided, however, that all articles of nursery stock, 

 trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, fruits, 

 vegetables, or seed which are infested or infected with such' species of 

 injurious insects or their eggs, larvae or purpae or other animal or plant 

 disease which may be or be liable to be injurious to the orchards, vine- 

 yards, gardens or farms within said State, shall be destroyed or reshipped 

 out of the state as hereinafter provided. The said officer so making an 

 inspection shall not permit any of the described articles so coming in 

 contact with said infested or infected articles or any articles which 

 might convey infection or infestation to be removed or taken from any 

 such car, warehouse, depot, ship, dock, wharf or any other place until 

 such infection or infestation shall have been destroyed." 



Section 2: "Each carload, case, box, package, crate, bale or bundle 

 of trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds or fruit 

 pits, or fruit or vegetables, or seed imported or brought into this 

 state, shall have plainly and legibly marked thereon in a conspicuous 



