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to make such examination, shall thereupon issue to the owner or 

 proprietor of the said stock, thus examined, a certificate setting" forth 

 the fact of the examination and that the stock so examined is ap- 

 parently free from any and all such destructive insect pest or pests. 



Section 3. Should any nurseryman, agent, dealer or broker send 

 out or deliver, within the state, trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds, or 

 cuttings, commonly known as nursery stock, and which are subject 

 to the attacks of the insects designated in this act, unless he has in his 

 possession a copy of said certificate, dated within the year thereof, 

 or wrongfully be in possession of said certificate, he shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of section eight of this act. 



Section 4. All nursery stock, as designated in this act, sent 

 out by any nurseryman, agent, dealer or broker within this state, 

 shall be accompanied by a copy of said certificate attached to each 

 box, bale or package. A certificate issued by an official of the United 

 States, setting forth the fact that the nursery stock is free from any 

 and all such destructive insect pest or.pests, shall be accepted in lieu 

 of state inspection. Also, empowering all transportation companies 

 to reject all nursery stock not accompanied with a certificate of in- 

 spection. 



Section 5. Whenever any trees, shrubs, plants or vines are 

 shipped into the state from some other state, country or province, 

 every package thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside with 

 the name of the consignor, the name of the consignee, and a certifi- 

 cate showing that the contents have been inspected by a state or gov- 

 ernment officer, and that the trees, vines, shrubs or plants therein 

 contained appear free from all dangerously destructive insects. 



Section 7. When the Secretary of Agriculture, or the person 

 or persons appointed by him, shall finally determine, in accordance 

 with the provisions of this act, that any tree or trees, shrubs, vines 

 or other plants, must be treated or destroyed, he shall notify in writ- 

 ing the owner or the person in charge of said infested stock or prop- 

 erty, and shall direct him, within a time and in a manner prescribed 

 in such notice, to treat or destroy such infested property. If the 

 person so notified shall refuse or neglect to treat, destroy or disinfect 

 said property, in the manner and within the time prescribed in the 

 said notice, the secretary shall cause such property to be so treated, 

 and he may employ all necessary assistants for that purpose ; and 

 such person or persons, agent or agents, employe or employes, may 

 enter any or all premises in any township, borough or city, necessary 

 for the purpose 6f such treatment, removal or destruction, and he 

 shall certify to the owner or person in charge of the premises the 



