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shall take such measures to suppress the same as the state nursery 

 inspector shall prescribe, and no certificate shall be given until 

 the said inspector has satisfied himself by subsequent inspections 

 that all such pests have been suppressed. 



Section 3. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the state 

 where nursery stock is grown, sold or offered for sale, who do not 

 hold an unexpired certificate of inspection after the first annual 

 inspection made after the passage of this act, who shall sell or 

 otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the state, shall be subject 

 to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hun- 

 dred dollars for each offence. 



Section 4. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the state 

 where nursery stock is grown, sold or offered for sale, who shall 

 fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas all stock which they sell, using 

 at least two-tenths of a gram of potassic cyanide to every cubic 

 foot of space contained in the box, house or other place wherein 

 this fumigation is performed, which place shall be gas tight, and 

 who shall expose the said stock to the fumes of this gas of the 

 strength aforesaid for at least forty minutes, or who shall treat the 

 stock which they sell by some other method approved by the state 

 nursery inspector, and who shall make affidavit before a justice 

 of the peace that all stock sold by them has thus been fumigated 

 or treated, and who shall attach a copy of such affidavit to each 

 package, box or car of stock sold, shall be exempt from the pro- 

 visions of sections two and three of this act. 



Section 5. All nursery stock shipped into this state from any 

 other state, country or province shall bear on each box or package 

 a certificate that the contents of said box or package have been 

 inspected by a duly authorized inspecting officer, and that said 

 contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects or diseases. 

 In case nursery stock is brought within the state without such a 

 certificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the 

 expense of the latter, or shall call the state nursery inspector to 

 inspect the same : provided^ however^ that any package or box 

 bearing a certificate of fumigation which meets the requirements 

 specified in section four of this act may be accepted as though 

 bearing a proper certificate of inspection. 



Section 6. The state nurseiy inspector shall determine the 

 season for inspecting nurseries and the forms of certificates to be 

 given, but in no case shall he issue a certificate which shall con- 

 tinue in force after the first day of July next following the date 

 of inspection. He or any of his deputies shall at all times have 

 the right to enter any public or private grounds in the performance 

 of any duty required by this act. He and each of his deputies 



