78 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



(4446-2) SEC. i. [Labor Day.] The first Monday in September 

 of each and every year shall be known as labor day, and for all purposes 

 whatever considered as the first day of the week. 



Acts of amusement may be indulged in on labor day though prohibited on 

 Sunday, for the title of this act calls it a holiday; but a judgment rendered on 

 that day is absolutely void: Joseph Speidel Grocery Co. v. Armstrong, 8 C. C, 

 489; 1 O. D., 534. 



(4446-3) SEC. i. [Central standard time.] The standard of 

 time throughout this state shall be that of the ninetieth meridian of 

 longitude west from Greenwich, by which all courts, banks and public 

 offices, and all legal or official proceedings shall be hereafter regulated. 

 Whenever, by the laws of this state, or by any law, rule, order or process 

 of any authority, created by or pursuant to the laws of this state, any 

 act is required to be performed, at or within any prescribed time, such 

 act shall be performed according to the standard of time of the ninetieth 

 meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, known as central standard 

 time. 



(4446-4) SEC. i. [Timepiece in or upon public building to keep 

 central standard time.] Wherever there is a clock or other-timepiece 

 in or upon a public building within this state, the same being maintained 

 at the public expense, it shall be the duty of the board of county commis- 

 sioners, board of education, or other persons having control and charge 

 of such building, to have said clock or other timepiece set and run 

 according to the standard of time established by the act passed March 

 22, 1893, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of keeping time 

 throughout the state of Ohio." 



(4446-7) SEC. i. [Ohio agricultural experiment station.] That 

 the board of control of the Ohio agricultural experiment station immedi- 

 ately on the taking effect of this act, shall appoint a competent person, 

 or persons, who shall, under the direction of the board, perform the 

 duties hereinafter provided. 



(4446-8) SEC. 2. [Board to cause to be exterminated danger- 

 ous insects and plant diseases.] It shall be the duty of the board, 

 either in person or through their assistants, to seek out and cause to be 

 exterminated the San Jose scale and other dangerous insects, and tree, 

 shrub, vine, or plant diseases. Black knot and peach yellows are hereby 

 declared to be dangerous within the meaning of this act, and trees, shrubs, 

 vines, or plants affected with either of these diseases, shall be subject 

 to its provisions. The mention of San Jose scale, peach yellows and 

 black knot in this section shall not be held to exclude other insects or 

 diseases which may be found to be dangerous, from the provisions of 

 this act. 



[Annual examination of nurseries.] Said board in person, or 

 through their assistants, shall examine once in each year, not later than 

 August 15, all nurseries in the state of Ohio as to whether they are 

 infested with San Jose scale or other dangerous insects, or infected with 

 dangerously contagious tree, vine, shrub, or plant disease ; 



[Certificate and fee therefor.] And if upon inspection, such nur- 

 series appear to be free from such insects or diseases, the board shall, 

 upon the receipt of $10.00. give each owner of such nursery or nurseries, 

 a certificate to the facts, provided that it shall require but one day or part 

 of one day to make such inspection, and for each additional day or frac- 



