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Sec. 2. The State Entomologist shall have authority, when requested 

 by the owner or agent, or when he has reasonable grounds to believe 

 any injurious insect pests, or dangerous and contagious plant diseases 

 exist, to enter upon any of the grounds mentioned in section i, hereof, 

 public or private, for the purpose of inspection; and, if he finds any 

 nursery, orchard, garden or other place, infested by any injurious insect 

 pests, or dangerous and contagious plant diseases, he may, by himself or 

 his assistants, enter upon such premises and establish quarantine regu- 

 lations. 



If, in his judgment, any insect pests, or dangerous and contagious 

 plant diseases may be eradicated by treatment, he may, in writing, order 

 such treatment, and prescribe its kind and character. In case any trees, 

 shrubs or plants are found so infested that it would be impracticable to 

 treat them, he may order them burned. A failure for 10 days after the 

 delivery of such order to the owner or persons in charge to treat or 

 destroy such infected trees or plants as ordered, shall authorize the 

 Entomologist to perform this work by himself or his assistants, and to 

 ascertain the cost thereof. He shall certify the amount of such cost to 

 the owner or person in charge of the premises, and if the same is not 

 paid to him within 60 days thereafter he shall certify the amount thereof 

 to the county attorney, whose duty it shall be to proceed forthwith to 

 collect the same of him in a civil suit, and return the amount so recov- 

 ered over to the state auditor to reimburse the state for the money 

 expended. 



Sec. 3. When nursery stock is shipped into the state accompanied 

 by a certificate of inspection by a State Entomologist from the state 

 from which the shipment has been made, stating that the stock has been 

 inspected and found to be free from any injurious insect pests, or dan- 

 gerous and contagious plant diseases, it shall be held prima facie evi- 

 dence of the facts therein stated, but the State Entomologist, by himself, 

 or his assistants, when he or they have reason to believe that any such 

 stock is nevertheless infested by any injurious insect pests, or dangerous 

 or contagious plant diseases, shall be authorized to inspect the same 

 and submit it to like treatment as that provided for in section 2 hereof; 

 and if, by reason of the failure for 48 hours of the owners of such stock 

 to comply with the treatment prescribed, or to destroy the stock, if so 

 ordered, the State Entomologist, or his assistants, are required to per- 

 form the work themselves, and it shall te the duty of the Entomologist 

 to certify the amount of the cosl thereof to the owner or the person in 

 charge of such stock so treated or destroyed; and, if the same is not 

 paid to him within 10 days thereafter, he shall certify the amount thereof 

 to the county attorney of the county in which the stock may be found 

 in an affidavit, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney to file said 

 af^fidavit with the village, city or town clerk of the village, city or town 

 in which such stock may be, and the same shall thereupon constitute a 

 lien thereon, which it shall be the duty of the county attorney to proceed 

 to collect forthwith in a civil suit, and to turn over the amount recovered 



