nied with a valid official certificate of inspection or fumigation, a copy 
of which certificate shall be filed by him with said statement for the 
approval of the State Entomologist. Upon receipt of said statement 
and copy of the certificate of inspection the Entomologist shall report 
to the sender his approval or disapproval of said certificate. If dis- 
approved he shall inspect, or cause to be inspected, the nursery stock 
to which the said statement a]iplies. and if he shall find said nursery 
stock to be apparently free from dangerous insects and dangerous 
plant diseases he shall give or send to the owner thereof, upon pay- 
ment of the expenses of the inspection, a certificate to that effect, and 
the delivery of such stock without an accompanying certificate of in- 
spection issued by the State Entomologist or approved by him shall 
subject the agent, dealer, or other person selling or delivering the same 
to the penalties prescribed in section 5 for a violation of this Act. 
§ 2. That all gardeners, horticulturists, nurserymen, superin- 
tendents of public parks, and other growers of or dealers in plants of 
any kind upon their own lands, upon leased lands or premises, or 
upon public parks or highways shall free and keep freed all plants, 
shrubs, trees, vines, cuttings, scions, buds, stocks or other plant parts 
grown, cultivated, or dealt in by them, from all injurious insects and 
fungus pests, which are liable to spread from the plants or premises 
infested to other plants on the public highways or upon lands belong- 
ing to other owners, and all plants, shruljs, trees, or parts of such so 
infested are hereby declared to be a nuisance to be abated as herein- 
after prescribed; and their maintenance, after notice as hereinafter set 
forth, is hereby declared a misdemeanor punishable as provided in 
section 5 of this Act. If the State Entomologist shall have reason to 
suppose that any nursery, orchard, fruit plantation, or other property 
or place in this State, is infested by dangerous insects or infected with 
contagious plant disease, he shall have power to inspect or to cause to 
be inspected, from time to time, such nursery, orchard, fruit planta- 
tion, or other property, and for the purposes of such inspection he 
and his assistants are authorized, during reasonable business hours, to 
enter into or upon any farm, orchard, nursery, garden, storehouse, or 
other building or place used for the growing, storage, packing or sale 
of trees, plants or fruits; and if the State Entomologist shall find, by 
inspection as aforesaid, that any person, firm, or corporation is main- 
taining a nuisance as described in this section, he shall notify in writ- 
ing the owner or occupant of the premises containing the nuisance so 
disclosed of the fact that such nuisance exists. He shall include in 
such notice a statement of the conditions constituting such nuisance. 
an order that the same be abated within a specified time, and a direc- 
tion, written or printed, pointing out the methods which should be 
taken to abate the same. Such notice or order may be served perT 
sonally, or by depositing the same in the post office, properly stamped, 
addressed to the owner or occupant of the land or premises upon 
which such nuisance exists, and the direction for treatment may con- 
sist of a printed circular, bulletin, or re])ort of the State Entomologist 
or of the Agricultural Experiment Station, or an extract from the 
