166 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



he may designate for such purposes and under such conditions 

 as he may by regulation prescribe, and to appoint inspectors for 

 the purpose of examining such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, 

 grafts, scions, nursery stock and fruit for the purpose of ascertain- 

 ing whether they are affected by any dangerously injurious insect 

 or disease the importation of which would be prejudicial to the hor- 

 ticultural interests of the United States, and to provide for the treat- 

 ment of such when found necessary. 



Sec. 'I. That when such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, 

 nursery stock and fruit shall be determined to be infested with any 

 dangerously injurious insect or disease, they shall be treated at the 

 expense of the owner or owners in accordance with the regulations 

 of the secretary of agriculture, or they shall be destroyed in case 

 their condition is such as to warrant such destruction; but an ap- 

 peal may be taken from the decision of the inspector to the secre- 

 tary of agriculture if such appeal be taken within three days after 

 such inspection, and the decision of the secretary of agriculture 

 shall be final. 



Sec. 3. That when such inspection shall show that such trees, 

 plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock and fruit are ap- 

 parently free from dangerously injurious insects or diseases, a cer- 

 tificate to this effect made in accordance with the regulations of the 

 secretary of agriculture shall be issued to the owner or owners 

 thereof by the said inspector, and this certificate shall operate to 

 release all the objects above specified, when dul}'- stamped or 

 labelled with the same, from further quarantine or restriction, 

 either at the said port of entry or in interstate commerce. 



Sec. 4. That whenever it shall appear to the secretary of agricul- 

 ture that any foreign country shall have provided proper and com- 

 petent inspection and treatment in accordance with the provisions 

 of this act for the objects above specified as being subject to in- 

 spection and treatment, he may, by proclamation or otherwise, 

 accept such inspection and treatment in lieu of inspection pre- 

 formed by officers appointed by himself, which acceptation or pro- 

 clamation by the secretary of agriculture shall relieve all such 

 articles specified in the foregoing sections of this act, when pro- 

 perly stamped or labelled, from further quarantine or restrictions. 



Sec. 5. That the secretary of agriculture shall cause to be in- 

 spected and properly treated, at the expense of the owner or owners, 

 prior to their shipment all trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions and nursery stock which are subjects of interstate com- 

 merce and which are about to be transported from one state or 

 territory or the District of Columbia into another state or territory 

 or the District of Columbia. 



Sec. 6. That the said examination shall be made in the manner 

 provided for by the rules and regulations prescribed by the sec- 

 retary of agriculture, and that after such examination the trees, 

 plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions or nursery stock found to be 

 apparently free from dangerously injurious insects or diseases 

 shall be marked, stamped or labelled for identification, as may be 

 provided for by said rules and regulations of the secretary of agri- 



