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care in their inspections. To improve this vigihmce 1 long ago took the 

 matter of quarantine, fumigation and genera! inspection to the legal and 

 ofificia! authorities of the State. In fact the attorney general of Texas is 

 now considering the legalities of a plan I submitted to him to permit me to 

 maintain a C|uarantine officer at two frontier points, said officer to be ap- 

 pointed by me and paid by California, but to receive his nominal appoint- 

 ment by the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, so the quarantine deputy will 

 he qualified to act legally. If this can be done also in Arizona it will afford 

 the best protection we have ever enjoyed. These quarantine officers would 

 be permitted, liy arrangement with the customs service, to inspect baggage as 

 it is being inspected for duties by Federal authority." 



■"The State law is inadequate. We have no authority to open baggage, 

 hand bags, boxes, etc., coming over the International line and have to resort 

 to the subterfuge even at San Francisco, of looking over the shoulder (by 

 tolerance or consent) of the customs officers." 



