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business exclusively in I\rinnesota nursery jjrown stock shall not 

 be required to take out such license, but shall in all other re- 

 spects be subject to the provisions in the preceding sections. 



Sixth — Requiring the applicant for license to pay all reason- 

 able fees for the same, and also to give bonds that he will fully 

 comply with the foregoing. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Dartt. I suppose the report is before the house for dis- 

 cussion. There is one point that strikes me as not being exactly 

 right, and that is where it proposes to hold the principal re- 

 sponsible criminally for the criminal act of his agent, I move 

 the adoption of the report. 



Mr. Latham. By this report it seems the object sought to be 

 brought about is to secure legislation to prevent parties from 

 putting upon the farmers of the State, nursery stock grown 

 somewhere else, under the representation that it is grown in 

 some nursery in this State. I don't understand how that object 

 is to be secured. It simply requires a license of the agents, and 

 they will go around and sell as before and will still sell shrubbery 

 trees, etc. 



Mr. C. L. Smith. "We will be better off in this respect: when 

 the agent attempts to sell foi-eign grown stock attention will be 

 called to the character of the stock he is selling; and we desire 

 to have it made a criminal olfense to represent it as Minnesota 

 stock; if he makes such representations he commits a misdemea- 

 nor and is liable to fine and imprisonment for such off;in:so. 



Mr. Latham. I don't think people generally will understand 

 that; it seems to me the license itself should be extensively ad- 

 vertised to show where he was from. To make any law efficient, 

 to protect the buyer, it seems to me a bond should be required 

 as is done in the case of an insurance company; a sufficient and 

 satisfactory bond should be deposited with some state official, 

 holding him to accountability for the results of his agency. 



President Elliot. " That is contemplated. 



Mr. Harris. We expect a man will deposit a bond with the 

 secretary of state. 



Mr. Dartt. There is a question I was going to raise in regard 

 to an agent selling stock that was partly Minnesot i grown and a 

 portion of it, or the bulk of it, grown somewerc else. 



Mr. Grimes. It would be just as much of a fraud if it was 

 represented as being all grown in this State. 



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