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Sec. 2. The state entomologist shall have authority, when re- 

 quested 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 prem- 

 ises and establish quarantine regulations. 



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 

 ten days after the delivery of such order to the owner or person 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 tlie 

 amount of such cost to the owner or person in charge of the prem- 

 ises, and if the same is not paid to him within sixty 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 turn the amount so recovered over to the state auditor to 

 reimburse the state for the money expended. 



Sec. 3. When nursery stock is shipped into the state accom- 

 panied 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 dangerous and contagious plant diseases, it shall be held 

 prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, but the state entomol- 

 ogist by himself or his assistants, when he or they have reason to be- 

 lieve that any such stock is nevertheless infested by any injurious 

 insect pests, or dangerous and contagious plant diseases, shall be au- 

 thorized 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 

 forty-eight hours of the owners of such stock to comply with the 

 treatment prescribed or to destroy the stock if so ordered, the statL 

 entomologist or his assistants are required to perform the work 

 themselves, it shall be the duty of the entomologist to certify the 

 amount of the cost 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 ten days thereafter, he shall certify the amount tliereof 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 affidavit 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 at- 

 torney to proceed to collect forthwith in a civil suit, and to turn 

 over the amount recovered by him in such suit to the state auditor to 

 reimburse the state for the money expended. 



