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infected property, and shall direct him, within a time and in a manner 

 prescribed in such notice, to use such measures as shall prevent the con- 

 veyance -or spread of such insects or diseases to the property of others and 

 such infested or infected property must not be removed from the prem- 

 ises after the owner or person in charge of the same shall have been no- 

 tified as aforesaid, without the written permission of said board or their 

 assistants. 



[Duty of board upon failure of owner to disinfect premises.] 



If the person so notified shall refuse or neglect to treat and disinfect said 

 premises or property in the manner and within the time prescribed, it 

 shall be the duty of the board to cause such premises or property to be 

 so treated, and they shall certify to the owner or person in charge of such 

 premises one-half of the cost of the treatment. If said sum is not paid 

 to them within sixty days thereafter, the same may be recovered, together 

 with the cost of action, before any court in the state having competent 

 jurisdiction. 



[Destruction of infected trees, etc.] Any tree, plant, shrub, etc., 

 which may in the judgment of the board or their assistants, be so badly 

 infested, or infected, as to render expense of treatment unjustifiable, 

 shall be declared a public nuisance and may be destroyed by them or 

 their assistants without liability for compensation to the owner thereof. 



[Appeal.] Right of appeal from the decision or requirements of 

 the assistants may be made to the said board, within three days after 

 notice of such decision or requirements has been served, and the decision 

 of the board shall be final 



(4446-10) SEC. 4. [As to plants shipped into this state.] Every 

 package of trees, shrubs, vines or plants shipped into this/ state, from any 

 other state, territory, country or province, shall be plainly labeled on the 

 outside with the names of the consignor, and consignee, and a certificate 

 showing that the contents have been inspected by a state or government 

 officer, and that the trees, shrubs, vines or plants therein contained appear 

 to be free from all dangerous insects and dangerously infectious diseases. 

 If any trees, shrubs, vines, or plants are shipped into this state without 

 such certificate plainly fixed on the outside of the package, box or car 

 containing the same, the facts must be reported within twenty-four 

 hours to the said board by the railroad, express or steamboat company, 

 or by other person or persons carrying the same, and it shall be unlawful 

 to deliver any such property until it has been examined by the board or 

 their assistants and by them certified to be apparently free from danger- 

 nus insects or dangerously contagious diseases. Any agent or any com- 

 mon carrier, or persons carrying such property as aforesaid, who shall 

 fail to give such notice as hereby required, shall be deemed guilty of a 

 violation of this act. When nursery stock is shipped into this state 

 accompanied by a certificate as herein p-ovided, it shall be Inld prima 

 facie evidence cf the racts therein stated. But the board by themselves 

 or their assistants, when they have reason to 1 elievc that any such stock 

 is inft.,ted or infected as heretofore described shall be authorized to in- 

 spect the sar.?. In case such stock' is found to be infected or infected 

 t ; am of the aforesa ; :l insects or pl.int diseases, such s'ock shall be held 

 subject to order of shipper not to exceed ten days before being declared 

 i i3-ibl'~ ruisar"*e and destroyed. All expenses inc rred by the board 

 or their arista- ts, iii earn /ig ou'; the provisions of this act shall be paid 

 ?ut f i he fu.K>5 rppropn'ated by this act. 



