PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOLL WEEVIL CONVENTION. 75 



"Firmly impressed with the seriousness of the situation and the neces 

 sity for immediate and energetic action on the part of our State authori- 

 ties, your committee begs leave to recommend for adoption by the General 

 Assembly of this State, prompt legislation along the following lines : 



"i. It should be made a crime, punishable by heavy fine and imprison- 

 ment, for any firm, person or corporation to bring into this State, or to 

 have in possession, except a duly recognized State or Federal entomologist, 

 for any purpose, any living Mexican boll weevil or, any cotton bolls, 

 squares or plants of seed containing the adult, pupa, larva or egg stagt 

 of the Mexican boll weevil. 



"2. An act prohibiting the shipment into the State of any cotton-seed, 

 cotton seed hulls, seed cotton, cotton seed sacks or bagging, or any other 

 farm products from any State, or consigned from points within any State, 

 where the boll weevil exists, without being accompanied by a certificate 

 signed by duly authorized State or government entomologist, stating that 

 cotton-seed or other farm product has been thoroughly fumigated in such 

 manner as to kill the boll weevil in any of its stages, 



"3. An act creating a crop pest commission, to be composed of the 

 Governor, as the ex-officio chairman thereof, Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 director of the State Experiment Station, the State entomologist and two 

 experienced cotton planters, the two latter to be appointed by the Gover- 

 nor, all of the members thereof to serve without compensation, except 

 actual traveling expenses, and conferring on said commission full and 

 plenary power to deal with all crop and fruit pests and such contagious 

 and infectious diseases as, in the opinion of the commission, may be con- 

 trolled or eradicated; and with power to make, promulgate and enforce 

 such rules and regulations as, in their judgment, are necessary to control, 

 eradicate and prevent the dissemination of all injurious pests, as far as 

 may be possible, and conferring on said commission the power and 

 authority to make all rules and regulations deemed expedient in relation 

 thereto, and said rules and regulations to have the full force and effect of 

 law, so far as they conform to the general laws of the State and of the 

 United States. 



"4. We recommend that the General Assembly of the State appropriate 

 the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the 

 crop pest commission, herein recommended, to deal with the subject of the 

 prevention of the spread of the boll weevil and the eradication of the 

 same, as well as all other crop pests. 



"Respectfully submitted, 



"jNo. C. PUGH, Chairman, 



"WALTER GUION, 



"G. W. BOI.TON, 



"W. C. HUGHES, 



"H. A. MORGAN, 



"G. W. MONTGOMERY." 



