LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 79 



lion thereof required to complete the inspection, $5.00 shall be charged 

 therefor, and collected before the certificate is granted. In addition to 

 the above fee nurserymen must furnish transportation to and from rail- 

 way station, and facilities for reaching their growing stock, to such 

 person or assistants selected by the board to make said inspection. 



[Life of certificate; filing thereof.] This certificate shall be void 

 after August 15, of the year following. A duplicate of each certificate, 

 together, with a statement of amount received therefor, shall be filed by 

 said person or assistants with the secretary of the board, within ten days 

 of its issue, and neglect to file such duplicate of certificate and statement 

 shall be treated as a misdemeanor. 



[Treatment of affected nursery stock.] If any dangerously inju- 

 rious insects or infectious diseases are found on the premises of any 

 nursery, or nursery stock, the board may order and enforce such treat- 

 ment of said nursery stock, as they may deem sufficient in addition to 

 a thorough inspection before granting a certificate, and the same per 

 <liem, shall be charged for over-seeing treatment as for nursery inspec- 

 tion. 



[Duty of person shipping nursery stock.] Whenever a nursery- 

 man or any other person shall ship or deliver within this state, except 

 for scientific purposes, trees, shrubs, plants or other nursery stock, he 

 shall place upon each car load, box, bale or package a copy of a certi- 

 ficate, the original of which is signed by a state or government inspector, 

 stating that stock ha been inspected and has been found apparently 

 free from dangerous insects and dangerously contagious tree, shrub, 

 vine and plant diseases. 



[Illegal use of certificate.] The illegal use of said certificate by 

 changing, defacing or placing it on uninspected stock, or using the sanu- 

 after date of expiration or revocation, shall render the owner or shipper 

 liable to the penalty prescribed for a violation of this act. Xo person 

 growing for sale any trees, shiubs, vines, or plants, shall deliver the sanne 

 without applying to the board for the certificate provided for in t-his< 

 act. Provided, however, that existing certificates, issued by the ento- 

 mologist of the Ohio agricultural experiment station, shall be held to be 

 valid until June i, 1900. 



(4446-9) SEC. 3. [Examination of orchards, gardens, etc.] It 

 shall further be the duty of said board through their assistants to caH.ise 

 the examination of all orchards, gardens, and other premises, either 

 public or private, which they shall have reason to suppose *to be infested 

 or infected with any dangerously injurious insects or infectious diseases, 

 liable to spread or to be conveyed to other premises, and for this pur- 

 pose, said board and their 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 growing, storing, pack- 

 ing or sale of nursery and other horticultural products. 



[Treatment of infected property.] If said board or their assist- 

 ants shall find on inspection as aforesaid that any nursery, orchard, 

 garden, or other property or place is infested or infected with such dan- 

 gerously injurious [insects] or infectious diseases liable to spread or to 

 he conveyed to other premises, to the serious injury of the property 

 thereon, the same shall be declared a public nuisance, and they shall 

 notify, in writing, the owner or persons in charge of such infested or 



