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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



To keep a 

 record of its 

 transactiouB 

 and report 

 to the gfti- 

 eral court. 



Compensation 

 of agents and 

 servants. 



Penalty for 

 obstructing 

 agents en- 

 gaged in exe- 

 cuting pur- 

 poses of act. 



The insect or 

 its eggs, etc., 

 not to be 

 brought into 

 the state, etc., 

 under pen- 

 alty. 



Power of state 

 board may be 

 executed by 

 secretary, 

 etc. 



Moneys here- 

 tofore appro- 

 priated to be 

 expended by 

 the board. 



each city or town in which said ocneria dispar or gypsy 

 moth shall be found by said board to exist and a copy 

 thereof shall be filed with the city clerk of each such city 

 and with the town clerk of each such town ; and any person 

 who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions thereof 

 shall be punished for each violation by a fine not exceed- 

 ing twenty-five dollars. 



Sect. 4. Said state board of agriculture shall keep a 

 record of its transactions and a full account of all its 

 expenditures under this act, and shall by its chairman or 

 secretary make report thereof, with such recommendations 

 and suggestions as said board shall deem necessary, on 

 or before the fourth Wednesday in January, to the general 

 court. 



Sect. 5. Said state board of agriculture shall estab- 

 lish the rate of compensation of auy persons, servants or 

 agents employed by it under this act. 



Sect. 6. Any person who shall purposely resist or 

 obstruct said state board of agriculture, or any persons, 

 servants or agents employed by it under the provisions of 

 this act, while engaged in the execution of the purposes 

 of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 

 twenty-five dollars for each offence. 



Sect. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person know- 

 ingly to bring the insect known as the ocneria dispar or 

 gypsy moth, or its nests or eggs, within this Common- 

 wealth ; or for any person knowingly to transport said 

 insect, or its nests or eggs, from any town or city to 

 another town or city within this Commonwealth. Any 

 person who shall offend against the provisions of this 

 section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two 

 hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the house of cor- 

 rection not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment. 



Sect. 8. The said state board of agriculture may exercise 

 all the duties and powers herein conferred upon said 

 board, by and through its secretary and such members of 

 said board as it may designate and appoint to have in 

 charge, in conjunction with its secretary, the execution of 

 the purposes of this act. 



Sect. 9. A 11 moneys heretofore appropriated or author- 

 ized to be expended under the provisions of chapters 

 ninety-five and one hundred and fift3'-seven of the acts of 

 the year eighteen hundred and ninety or by any other act. 



