property as aforesaid, or any consignee of such property, who shall 
fail to give notice to the State Entomologist as above required shall 
be deemed guilty of a violation of this -\ct, and subject to the penal- 
ties prescribed in section 5. 
§ 4. Any owner of an orchard or other fruit plantation in bear- 
ing condition may apply to the State Entomologist for an inspection 
of the same with reference to the presence of the San Jose scale or 
other dangerous insects or plant diseases liable to prevent the sale or 
lessen the value of his fruits, agreeing in his application to pay in full 
the expenses of the inspection, and upon receipt of such application 
and agreement, or as soon thereafter as may be conveniently prac- 
ticable, the State Entomologist shall comply with such request, and 
upon receipt of the expenses of the inspection he shall issue to the 
ajjplicant a certificate to the facts disclosed by the inspection. 
§ 5. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act with 
reference to the sale, shipment, delivery, receipt, or transportation of 
nursery stock, or with reference to the use, alteration, or defacement 
of a certificate of inspection relating to the same, or who shall remove, 
without the written permission of the State Entomologist, infested or 
infected property concerning whose condition he has received official 
notice from the Entomologist, or who shall maintain a nuisance as 
described in section 2 of this Act, after notice by the State Entomolo- 
gist and direction for its abatement, or who shall offer any hindrance 
or resistance to the carrying out of this Act, shall be adjudged guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before a justice of the peace 
shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one 
hundred dollars for each and every offense, together with all costs of 
the procedure, and shall stand committed until the same is paid. It 
shall be the duty of the State Entomologist to furnish to the State's 
Attorney all information in his possession concerning violations of 
this Act, and the State's Attorney shall prosecute such violations of 
this Act. and amounts so recovered shall be paid into the treasury of 
the State. 
§ 6. The office of the State Entomologist shall be established at 
the E'niversity of Illinois, the trustees of which shall provide for him 
antl his assistants such office and laboratory rooms as may be neces- 
sary to the performance of their duties. He shall have power to ap- 
point a chief inspector and such assistants as may be necessary to the 
execution of this Act, and to fix a reasonable compensation for their 
labors, and their acts, done in pursuance of his instructions, shall have 
the same validity as his own. He shall certify to the State Auditor 
the amount of his expenses and the amount of the salaries and ex- 
penses of the chief inspector and assistants employed under this Act, 
and the Auditor shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the State 
Treasurer for the amount, which shall be paid out of the funds pro- 
vided for carrying this .Vet into effect. The State Entomologist shall 
make to the Governor a biennial report of his operations under this 
Act, together with a financial statement in detail, and he shall also 
make each year to the State Horticultural Society, at its annual meet- 
